Networking Engineer II

1 week ago

Alexandria, United States PBS Full time
Position Title:
Networking Engineer II

Department:
Cybersecurity & Program Management

Corporate Area:
Technology & Operations

Status:
Regular, Full time Exempt

Manager Title:
Director, Networking & Cybersecurity

Position Overview:

The Networking Engineer II is responsible for the design, build, configuration, testing, deployment, and proactive support of the PBS network hardware and interconnectivity infrastructure both in the cloud and on-prem environments. They will work with a high degree of autonomy and be able to provide guidance and recommendations to Administrators and Support Specialists on escalated support issues, deployment, configuration changes, and maintenance. This role will work with others to plan, execute, and deliver projects, roadmaps, confirm security compliance, assure systems align with IT strategies, test and deploy codes, research and write technical reports, and meet departmental targets and PBS goals.

Principal Responsibilities:

Networking responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
  • Plan, design, build, deploy and support scalable networks, systems and security strategies
  • Collaborate with Engineers, Administrators and Support Specialist to run, support, secure and monitor on-prem, cloud and remote networks
  • Consult on multiple cross-functional networking projects and applications
  • Ensuring that information systems and assets are monitored to identify networking events and verify the effectiveness of protective measures
  • Ensuring response activities are coordinated with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., external support from service providers)
  • Ensuring activities are performed to prevent expansion of a networking event, mitigate its effects, and resolve the incident
  • Ensuring response processes and procedures are executed and maintained, to ensure response to detected networking incidents
  • Identify, review, evaluate and validate networking standards; technical requirements, gaps and issues, and communicate proposed and custom solutions to existing architecture
  • Additional activities as necessary to support the overall Networking and PBS mission
Operational responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
  • Research, implement and consult on capacity planning models, NexGen and redundancy solutions
  • Create plans and procedures to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve escalated support problems
  • Contribute to Change and Incident Management, problem escalation and work processes
  • Evaluate networks, review and analyze migration strategies, and document codes and scripts
  • Provide recommendations to deploy, migrate and support network monitoring tools
  • Conduct reviews, evaluate and provide recommendations on vendor services
  • Perform research, create documentation and write reports
Security Operations responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
  • Investigate security issues and risks, resolve and report security vulnerabilities to Cyber Security
  • Create and document network / security policies and baselines
  • Recommend and implement appropriate up-to-date security technologies, network segmentation and access control, and End-Point security solutions
  • Assist with planning, developing and reviewing security requirements and procedures
  • Identify security audit discrepancies to implement corrective and preventive measures
Requirements for success:

Experience requirement:
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience working as a systems engineer or administrator
  • Minimum of 4 years' experience working as a network engineer or administrator
  • Minimum of 5 years' networking and security operations experience
Education and/or certification requirement:
  • Cisco CCNP/CCDP, or Fortinet FCP, or equivalent required
  • Certifications equivalent to the Cisco CCIE/CCDE, or Fortinet equivalent, desired
  • Successful completion of Cisco or Fortinet, or its equivalent in routing, switching, and firewall management
  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as networking, cybersecurity, information technology, or computer science; equivalent combination of education experience may be considered
Technical skills and abilities:
  • Ability to participate as a technical lead on all projects requiring networking expertise and consultation
  • Ability to design, secure and support multiple inter-connected networks, devices, and profiles
  • Ability to deploy, integrate, configure, and maintain systems which comprise the overall networking technology stack
  • Ability to communicate complex networking concepts in a clear and concise manner for laypersons unfamiliar with networking and/or IT concepts
  • Proficiency to design, implement, and troubleshoot network security policies, VLANs, VoIP, Remote Access VPN, IPSec VPN, 802.1x, RADIUS, TACACS, AAA, TLS, SSL, multifactor authentication, password management and monitoring tools
  • Expertise knowledge and skill to configure and troubleshoot routing protocols (IGP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS), network services (IPv6, IPv4, DHCP, DNS, IPAM, SNMP, PAT, NAT), SD-WAN, multi-casts and MPLS networks
  • Skilled in deploying, managing and troubleshooting Cisco routers, Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco IOS Switches, Cisco Wireless, Cisco ISE, IDS/IPS, Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls, Fortinet FortiWeb Web Application Firewalls, and F5s
  • Ability to design and implement high availability and redundant networks using, QoS, CoS, NTP, HSRP, GLBP, LACP
  • Strong foundational knowledge in IT technologies and concepts not limited to email security technologies, application security, cloud security (IaaS & PaaS, etc.), managed security services provisioning (MSSPs), DNS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS, etc.
  • Good knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, MacOS, VMware ESXi, Docker, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Cloud Networking
  • Knowledge of Change / Incident Management (ITIL, ITSM), Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall project management
  • Knowledge of PowerShell/Python/JavaScript, MacOS, malware analysis, vulnerability management, WAF, CIS Benchmarks
  • Ability to use DevOps, Git, Jira, Confluence, automating and ticketing (FreshService) tools
  • Eagerness to develop, grow, and maintain strong inter-team relationships across the business to aid in the accomplishment of the PBS mission
Soft skills:
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong problem solving, analytical and design skills
  • Ability to adapt to new goals, practices, procedures, etc., within a dynamic work environment
  • Good organizational skills with the ability to balance overlapping tasks and deadlines
  • Ability to collaborate as a team player with all levels of staff and external stakeholders
  • Ability to provide mentorship to junior engineers, administrators and support specialists
  • Ability to effectively complete assigned tasks with minimal guidance and supervision
  • Proactively stays current in requisite skills within job scope and incorporates knowledge and other feedback into assigned work
  • Consistently demonstrates respect for inclusion, diversity, and ethics


PBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer in accordance with the EEOC and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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