Principal Network Engineer at Presidio
Tysons Corner, VA
About the Job
We are seeking a hands-on Principal Network Engineer leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of our datacenter and public computing -hybrid cloud- network and security infrastructure The Senior Network Engineer is expected to solve critical and complex problems in a fast-paced and collaborative environment and operates as a trusted technical advisor and influencer to all infrastructure and operations teams, engineering directors and executive management. The candidate will also evangelize the adoption of forward-looking technologies and methods while mentoring technical leaders and key stakeholders as technical roadmaps are established to ensure maximum performance, scalability, and security.
Requirements:
- B.A. or B.S. (or higher-level degree) in Computer Science or a similar engineering program with strong academic performance.
- CCIE in relevant technologies is a must.
- 15+ years of hands-on experience in cloud computing and/or data center operations
- Data center architecture design and roadmap execution
- Strong understanding of cloud computing technologies, such as AWS and Azure
- Network Engineering must have:
- Multi-site ACI implementation
- CCIE in relevant technologies highly desired
- Network security: IDS, IPS, Firepower, monitoring platforms, DDOS Data Protection (Akamai/CloudFlare), Microsegmentation
- Design of highly available/high performance/highly scalable redundant networks
- ISP management
- IPAM
- IPv6 design and deployment at the enterprise and data center
- Very strong knowledge on OSPF and BGP for ISP, public cloud and private peering
- Virtual private networking and security
- Must have: F5 load balancer at high scale
- Cisco Networking, Cisco Nexus
- Containerization, network security, load balancing and auto scale
- Cisco UCS
- Automation frameworks including Terraform, Ansible
- Experience supporting IoT driven workloads
- Proven experience designing and implementing geographical dispersed infrastructure: multi-site, multi-cloud
- Disaster recovery and data center failover architectures
- Capacity planning and forecasting
- Other duties as assigned
Duration: Full Time, Direct Hire