Principal Network Systems Engineer

4 weeks ago


Arlington, Virginia, United States Saliense Consulting LLC Full time
Job Title: Principal Network Systems Engineer

Saliense Consulting LLC is seeking a highly skilled Principal Network Systems Engineer to join our team in Arlington, VA. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for leading day-to-day operations management, designing, implementing, documenting, and troubleshooting the enterprise server environment.

Responsibilities include:

  • Managing the 'system of systems' architecture development, partitioning of functionality among applications and components, and application interfaces/interoperability concerns.
  • Systematically reviewing all existing processes and procedures and implementing innovative changes to meet and exceed service level agreements.
  • Developing and providing recommendations for technical refresh efforts and opportunities to improve capability while driving down costs through opportunities such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Hyper-Converged Infrastructures, automated patch management, and balancing as-is infrastructure with to-be requirements.
  • Providing insights and recommendations based on industry best practices and cutting technology.
  • Managing a team responsible for systems engineering, security engineering, and workstation and server vulnerability remediation and patch management.
  • Helping prepare plans for the development and installation of servers according to present and future requirements.
  • Providing expert technical support, administration, and engineering on all Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
  • Monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and resolving systems problems to ensure system availability.
  • Troubleshooting and resolving systems problems to ensure system availability.
  • Providing expert technical support with the entire VMWare environment.
  • Leading and performing changes to OS, databases, applications, servers, storage, network, and backups in the data center as well as development environments.
  • Managing the configuration, administration, upgrade, and maintenance of corporate and DR servers and related infrastructure as well as the Storage Environment.
  • Experience with the principles, methods, and techniques used in wired and wireless network administration and engineering.
  • Experience managing day-to-day operations management of the network, including a broad range of LAN/WAN and desktop issues and providing expert knowledge of SNA implementation principles, routing protocol options, and LAN/WAN principles.
  • Experience solving network server problems or network infrastructure issues and managing the performance and capacity of a VLAN/LAN/WAN environment.
  • Experience in installation and testing of security patches and cyber security products.
  • Hands-on experience designing and supporting AWS environment and utilizing AWS administrator portal. Experience in AWS services and technologies such as IAM, VPC, S3, EC2, CloudWatch and CloudTrail, Route 53, RDS, SSM, ElasticSearch and Lambda.
  • Experience supporting Cloud Architects to provide operational network architectures to meet mission system and development environment requirements.
  • Experience anticipating future network requirements, researching and analyzing emerging technologies and applying them to business needs.
  • Engineers/assists in developing solutions aligned with security, uptime, and performance.
  • Maintains awareness of system management and network monitoring and the operational support tools to maintain those functions.
  • Works with server patch management processes and procedures to facilitate deployment.
  • Provides for the management, testing, and installation of security patches and cyber security products.
  • Provides infrastructure architecture recommendations.
  • Maintains systems integrity through change control and problem management procedures and communication with internal customers.
  • Accomplishes department objectives by leading staff; organizing and monitoring work processes.
  • Attends and participates in team meetings, training sessions, and company-sponsored programs as required.

Required qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Ten (10) years of progressively more difficult experience related to system/server design and administration. Five years experience related to server/system design and administration.
  • Ten (10) years of overall experience related to network design and administration.
  • At least three (3) years of experience managing technical staff.
  • Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in physical and virtual server administration and engineering.
  • Advanced knowledge of and ability to use:
  • Hardware (hypervisors, hyper-converged infrastructures, blade servers, switches, routers, bridges, firewalls).
  • Software (multiple operating systems, virtualization software, virtual desktop infrastructure, SCCM/MECM, monitoring tools, IPv4, IPv6).
  • Other common server/network and user equipment (e.g., SAN, NAS, Video bridge).
  • Ability to solve server problems or server infrastructure issues and to manage the performance and capacity of an enterprise server environment.

Required Certifications and Clearance:

  • IAM Level II certification such as CISSP, CASP+, or equivalent.
  • VCP, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Server+, Microsoft Server Certification, Certified Network Engineer, OR similar professional computing environment certification. (DoD 8570 IAT Level II Computing Environment Cert)
  • Top Secret Clearance.

Saliense Consulting LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.



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