Principal Cisco Network Systems Engineer

Future Opportunities: Cisco Network Engineers

Are you a Cisco Network Engineer ready to take your career to the next level and support critical national missions? Edgewater Federal Solutions is actively building a pipeline of talented professionals for future full-time opportunities across our growing programs.

📍 Locations:

• Pocatello, ID
• Huntsville, AL
• Whether you already hold an Active Top Secret Clearance or are looking for an employer willing to sponsor you for one, we encourage you to apply and connect with our team.
• These are for future opportunties and we would love to get you in our pipeline

We're seeking passionate network professionals who thrive in complex environments, enjoy solving challenging technical problems, and want their work to have a meaningful impact. By joining our talent community now, you'll be among the first considered as new opportunities become available.

If you're looking for a role where your expertise can support mission-critical operations while continuing to grow your career, we'd love to hear from you.

🔹 Full-Time Opportunities
🔹 Top Secret Clearance Sponsorship Available
🔹 Advancement and Growth Potential
🔹 Support Critical Government Missions

Take the next step in your networking career and apply today to be considered for upcoming opportunities. (We will sponsor you for a Top Secret clearance while future positions become available)

• Design, implementation and ongoing support of the Networking Infrastructure within and between data centers.
• Serve as the advanced matter expert for all data center network environments.
• Create and maintain network infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate LAN, WAN, vLAN, SDN, firewall and load balancer configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual network tools (NSX) and services.
• Provision/configure the required networking for servers and applications.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the data center network infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct network issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks. Provide real time alerts for network problem issues and implement proactive solutions for future problems to include re-design or tech refresh.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools for all data center network components.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning of addresses and VLANS with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Provide 4th level support.
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.

• Must be a US citizen and be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance
• Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certifications 
• Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required
• Six years of experience required.
• Experience with Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Tetration, Multi-Site-Orchestrator (MSO), Network Assurance Engine (NAE), Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), Nexus Insights, and Digital Network Architecture Center (DNAC) is preferred.

About Us:

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law. #LI-SW1