Network Engineer - Chantilly VA

required skills and demonstrated experience
The Contractor Team shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:

• Demonstrated experience analyzing existing systems and identifying necessary corrective actions and improvements
• Demonstrated experience building, maintaining and troubleshooting gold image hard drives.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and performing security testing.
• Demonstrated experience creating network topology diagrams.
• Demonstrated experience designing, configuring and troubleshooting Routing and Switching systems (Cisco expertise required).
• Demonstrated experience implementing L2 and L3 VPN across an MPLS network.
• Demonstrated experience installing, maintaining, and configuring Aspera Enterprise Server and Aspera P2P.
• Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of automation solutions
• Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and vRealize Suite.
• Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of virtual networks and servers and virtual workstations.
• Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of VMware vCenter and VMware NSX-T.
• Demonstrated experience performing Hypervisor deployments.
• Demonstrated experience using forensic software including Cellebrite, XRY, WinHex, FTK, and Autopsy.
• Demonstrated experience with Gateway Redundancy Protocols to include HSRP and VRRP.
• Demonstrated experience with network IP address management.
• Demonstrated experience with network security such as firewalls and ACL's.
• Demonstrated experience with Routing Protocols to include OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.
• Demonstrated experience with vulnerability scanning tools.
• Demonstrated experience working in Local Area Network (LAN) environments and Wide Area Network (WAN) environments.
• Demonstrated experience working with TCP IP protocol suite, IP subnets and masking, and routing protocols.
• Demonstrated hands on experience engineering the design, build, and configuration of Linux servers and virtual infrastructure.
• Demonstrated hands on experience performing administration, troubleshooting, patching, and support of Linux servers and virtual infrastructure.
• Demonstrated hands on experience performing engineering, implementation, and troubleshooting of VMWare virtualization infrastructure.
• Demonstrated hands on experience performing risk analysis for proposed IT infrastructure changes.
• Demonstrated hands on experience performing system monitoring and analysis, including root cause analysis of system faults and outages.
• Demonstrated experience working with vendors on system troubleshooting.

Highly Desired skills and demonstrated experience
Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

• Demonstrated experience explaining protocols, technical procedures and processes clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience with Software Defined Networking technologies, such as Cisco ACI and VMware NSX-T.
• Demonstrated experience with load balancing technologies, such as F5 BIG-IP and Citrix Netscaler.