Network Support Engineer (IPv6)

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family:

Network Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cisco Routers and Switches, Firewalls, Private Clouds, Routing

Certifications:

Amazon Web Services - AWS, CCNA - Cisco, Certified Cyber Security Entry Level technician - Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - Microsoft

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Transform technology into opportunity as a Network Engineer Senior with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Network Engineer Senior you will provide support for IPv4-to-IPv6 migrations, network related issues and remediation, testing, configuration changes, migration of Azure NSG rules to Palo Alto HUB Firewalls.

This is a remote position. However, candidates must be able to travel to customer location Maryland to obtain badging prior to starting.

How a Network Engineer will make an impact:

• Ensures that the customer's network operates smoothly, supporting essential business requirements.
• Effectively work as a team with application owners and the customer to successfully translate business requirements into network/system requirements.
• Administer, monitor, upgrade and maintain relevant networking equipment.
• Identify, analyzes and resolves network issues as they arise.
• Develop and execute test cases to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Provide technical support to help remediate network issues and mitigation of security vulnerabilities.
• Able to provide technical networking support during business and non-business hours, as required.
• Demonstrates strong technical skills and analytic abilities.
• Demonstrates experience performing complex technical tasks with minimal direction.
• Effectively communicates with the team, customer and application owners.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology.
• Develop, maintain and adheres to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and networking best practices.
• Provide knowledge transfer of relevant technology to team members, customer and program successors.

Required Skills:

• At least 3 years of related experience in Networking
• At least 1 year of experience actively working with IPv6 in a production capacity
• Hands-on experience working with Palo Alto HUB Firewalls, Cisco routers and switches.
• Thorough understanding of local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), network routing, VLANs and both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol.
• Basic understanding of Azure and/or AWS networking, network security groups (NSG), and virtual private cloud (VPC).
• Ability to translate customer business requirements into network/system requirements.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust and sucessfully pass a thorough government background screening process (forms/fingerprinting).

Desired Skills:

• Bachelors Degree strong preferred
• Possess, or will possess in near future, a CCNA, Cloud (AWS or Azure), Palo Alto or CompTIA+ Certification.
• Experience with business tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, ServiceNow and MS Teams
• Experience with development tools: Trello, JIRA, Git, Confluence
• Experience with Agile methodologies: SCRUM and/or KanBan
• Experience working in any HHS agencies or entities

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The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class. Apply