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Term: Full Time

Location: Columbia MD

Role: Cleared Microsoft Systems Engineer, Junior to Mid Level, Riverbed Stack Product Support, Transitional Skills Possible

Vertical Public Sector

Duration: Long Term

$ 90-135k/year

PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS A MD CUSTOMER FSP CLEARED ONE. CUSTOMER MIGHT BE OPEN TO THOSE CANDIDATES WITH LOWER CLEARANCES BUT OPEN TO ACQUIRING THE FSP ISSUED BY THE MD CUSTOMER,

• As a System Engineer with network expertise, working with our Client's product suite you will solve clients enterprise-wide network, cloud, application, and server capacity and performance issues. This position combines engineering disciplines with a business focus for delivering IT performance management solutions. You will utilize our Client's technologies to plan, design, deploy, operate, manage and optimize IT infrastructures.
• Serve as an contributor in cloud migration, WAN optimization, networking and application performance, and/or applications delivery, utilizing Riverbeds complete Application Performance portfolio
• Provide assistance to specialized planning and design expertise in data center consolidation and data migration, network configuration and analysis, application performance troubleshooting and/or optimization
• Analyze and understand customers IT organization, requirements and processes, and use this knowledge to assist in achieving full adoption and utilization of Clients solutions to maximize ROI and business value
• Present and articulate advanced product features, benefits, and overall product solutions
• Produce solutions to fulfill customer needs within budget and schedule constraints
• Work directly with customers, colleagues and other stakeholders to achieve project goals
• Mid systems administration (MS) skills including cloud environments.
• Solid experience in providing support to IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for infrastructure sytems.
• Good understanding of networking (TCP/IP), protocols, components and operations; multi-tier application architectures.--Would be a plus.
• Knowledge of web application architecture and software including Web Servers (Apache, IIS), J2EE Application Servers (Websphere, Weblogic), Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2) and/or Operating Systems (UNIX, Windows)—Would be a plus
• Installation and configuration experience with ESX, VMFS, storage sub-systems, cache architectures and windowing systems-Would be a plus.
• Experience with protocol analyzers, WireShark, NetFlow and/or packet analysis—Would be a plus
• Knowledge of Python and/or other scripting languages (ruby, perl, RESTful APIs)---Would be a plus

Technical Skills Desired:

Qualifications

• This is an onsite role in Columbia, no remote work
• At least one DOD 8140/ DOD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (examples include: A CE, CCNA-Security, Security , Network CE, CISSP, CASP, or SSCP)
• BS/MS degree in a technical field, or equivalent military or career experience
• CCNA (routing, switching) preferred
• SD-WAN experience preferred
• MS Certifications/MCP preferred
• Experience in professional services, technical consulting, or network engineering/operations preferred
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, drive IT projects forward in large organizations, and translate technical features into tangible customer business benefits
• Self-motivated and capable of high performance under minimal supervision
• Excellent business writing and presentation skills
• Professionalism appropriate for working with Fortune 500 clients
• Passion for teamwork and contributing to a world-class Professional Services team which values excellence, execution, and integrity