Network Engineer (Cisco SDA)

Company: Innovien Solutions
Location: Washington
Posted on: April 7, 2025

Job Description:

Job Description:One of our top clients supporting a Fed/Government Space agency is responsible for all telecommunications, cloud, data center, and network services across all NASA centers and facilities in the U.S.! The Network Engineering role will have the opportunity to make massive impacts for their Network Services team, with a focus in Cisco SDA and Network Automation, including enhancements and modernizations to current infrastructure solutions that is critical for groundbreaking initiatives. Come join a mission focused team that provides both growth and longevity to your career!U.S. Citizenship required + active PUBLIC TRUST or higher clearance highly preferredRequirements:

• 8+ years of Cisco Network Engineering experience (including Cisco Catalyst and/or Cisco DNA Center/DNAC)
• 3+ years supporting Cisco SDA architecture (deployments, integrations, etc.)
• Strong hands-on experience with TCP/IP, ARP, DHCP, & DNS protocols
• Must be able to obtain Public Trust- federal background check including fingerprinting
• Exposure working for a Government/Federal agency or environmentNice to have:
• Extensive network automation experience
• Active CCNA, CCNP, CCNIE certification
• Extensive government/federal agency experienceResponsibilities:
• Work directly and indirectly with customers, Technicians, Network Engineers, and/or Network Architects to execute network design changes or modifications to NASA infrastructure, as well as identify, analyze, and resolve issues for customer impacting events that may be escalated
• Support and lead Network Micro-Segmentation as well as multi pod and multi-site network deployments
• Engage in decision making regarding appropriate network changes to maintain configuration control and minimize configuration size using knowledge of network sub-netting and best practices per industry standards
• Use Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP), and Work Instructions (WI) to complete Change tasks via Command Line Interface (CLI) on devices
• Perform service validation to assess if deployed changes have caused impacts to customer traffic using provided expectations of traffic behavior, lessons learned, and customer reporting
• Use network decision-making skills for configurations such as detailed step-by-step instructions within the network switch operating system for new network devices that are replacing legacy network equipment that needs to be refreshed or replaced from time to time as a part of your design
• Provide assessment and design recommendations to resolve certain network device security vulnerabilities
• Provide wireless local area network (WLAN) device analysis and new access point designs to support expansion or reduce constraints as a measure to increase network capacity and/or bandwidth
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