F5 Network Engineer

SMS is seeking an F5 Network Engineer to join our team supporting the United States Department of Defense. The successful candidate will join a team responsible for supporting the DoD’s network in the National Capital Region.

Since 1976, SMS has specialized in modernizing legacy IT and sustaining complex enterprise environments for federal agencies. With the goal of building long-term partnerships with our customers, we invest in our employees by providing the training, tools, and support they need to keep critical missions operational, improve performance, and reduce risk. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. For additional information on SMS, visit www.sms.com.

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Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, oversight, and direction to the Core Transport Network Engineering team and mentors and instructs network engineers on best practices and the execution of network enhancements and upgrades and troubleshooting efforts in a large and complex network environment.
• Support the team responsible for the health and maintenance of a large, complex networking infrastructure. This includes providing network and operational support to more than 8000 networked devices.
• Provide comprehensive network administration, security enhancements and remediation, and troubleshooting of network devices such as routers, switches, load balancers, VPNs, 802.11 Wireless, and VoIP.
• Support best practices pertaining to network security and the development, deployment, and integration of network security services.
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Act as a subject-matter expert to network routing and switching, as well as network performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Review completion and implementation of system additions and/or enhancements and make recommendations to management and/or clients.
• Evaluate new applications, infrastructure, and cloud decisions in existing context of applications, infrastructure, standards, current business strategy and future business strategy.
• Determine system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.
• Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced IT staff and may have supervisory responsibilities.
• Serve as liaison with senior clients, participating in meetings to ensure client needs are met.
• Provides problem and incident resolution, including dealing with software and hardware vendor technical support.
• Deploy and maintain network hardware, peripherals, services, and settings in accordance with industry standards and project/operational requirements.
• Performs daily system monitoring; verifies the integrity and availability of networking hardware, services, systems, and key processes; reviews system and application logs.
• Documents and conducts changes during ASI windows.
• Provides leadership in on-call troubleshooting and issue resolution as required.
• Develops and maintains installation and configuration procedures.
• Collaborate with the Security team to identify and remediate application and operating system vulnerabilities.
• Acts as a liaison with other groups to provide information sharing pertaining to the needs of the diverse set of computer users supported by the client as a whole.
• Develop scripts and other automation solutions to aid in the completion of migration and integration tasks.
• Review problems to understand the root causes of issues and ensure proper fixes are implemented.
• Provide high level expertise to multiple projects and tasks.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.
• Participate in special projects as required.

Required Qualifications

• Active DOD TS/SCI security clearance
• Certifications:
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification.
• Must have ONE or more of the following active network certifications:
• Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA)
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
• Aruba Certified Switching Associate (ACSA).
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, OR equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• 5 or more years of related information technology experience (if no degree, 8 years experience required).
• 3 or more years of experience supporting DOD, DISA, or JSP Network environments.
• Expert knowledge of information technology principles, methods, and techniques.

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and staff personnel of various expertise levels.
• Solid customer support skills in a high visibility environment.
• Strong problem analysis and creative problem solving skill
• Attention to detail, accuracy, and ability to thrive in a dynamic fast-paced work environment

Salary Range - $170,000 - $180,000

SMS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.