What are the responsibilities and job description for the NETWORK DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER (CI POLYGRAPH REQUIRED) position at NorthHill Technology?
NorthHill Technology Resources has an urgent need for Network Development Engineer to support a Federal Program in Mclean, VA. This is a direct-hire role with our client, a leader in the Intelligence Community. Due to the nature of the work, a TS/SCI Clearance and current CI Polygraph is required.
Network Development Engineer
If you enjoy working with new technologies, enterprise-leading equipment, and seek to optimize systems to achieve maximum performance, we would like to speak to you. This position will play a key role in driving the performance, stability, and scalability of nextgeneration networks to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. You will join a diverse team of software and platform engineers to design, deploy, and maintain network infrastructure. You will collaborate with people inside and outside the organization to deliver the highest standards for building, deploying, and scaling networks. The Network Development Engineer is focused on automating the deployment and support of critical network infrastructure. This includes traditional networking hardware (switches, routers, firewalls, etc.) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), specifically as it relates to the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
Key Job Responsibilities
Network Development Engineers perform high quality network and systems operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustaining engineering, best practices applications, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.
• Create and implement changes on the network through automation
• Deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes
• Operate and trouble-shoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configuration issues; including low level application interaction, Linux systems, and next-gen networking software tools
• Maintain standards across the networking toolset and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies
• Drive and support innovation from Top of Rack to the Network Border and everything in between
• Work closely with the Network Architect to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as assist with deployment and sustaining of network infrastructure and tooling
• Proficient in either Python or Go programming language
• Experience working with networking protocols and APIs, ideally Open vSwitch and/or any RESTful APIs for network devices and services
• Proficient in network topologies and architectures (VLAN, LAN, WAN)
• Experience with automation frameworks, specifically Ansible, to write scripts and automate network configurations
• Experience with SONiC and Cumulus Network Operating System (NOS)
• Experience in rail-optimized technology • Experience with key OpenShift networking concepts, like Open vSwitch (OVS) / Open Virtual Network (OVN) to create an overlay network on top of the physical infrastructure to facilitate pod communication across nodes.
• Experience using the OpenShift Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) to interact with different network plugins and manage pod networking
• Familiarity with configuring, deploying, and maintaining the MetalLB Operator for traffic load balancing on bare metal clusters
• Experience using Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for discovery, load balancing, service-to-service authentication, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring services
• Proficient with the Network Observability Operator for network debugging and insights
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members, vendors, and customers to understand requirements and implement solutions
• Proficient time management to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced networking environment
Clearance Requirements
• Active TS/SCI clearance with Counterintelligence polygraph
Network Development Engineer
If you enjoy working with new technologies, enterprise-leading equipment, and seek to optimize systems to achieve maximum performance, we would like to speak to you. This position will play a key role in driving the performance, stability, and scalability of nextgeneration networks to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. You will join a diverse team of software and platform engineers to design, deploy, and maintain network infrastructure. You will collaborate with people inside and outside the organization to deliver the highest standards for building, deploying, and scaling networks. The Network Development Engineer is focused on automating the deployment and support of critical network infrastructure. This includes traditional networking hardware (switches, routers, firewalls, etc.) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), specifically as it relates to the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
Key Job Responsibilities
Network Development Engineers perform high quality network and systems operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustaining engineering, best practices applications, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.
• Create and implement changes on the network through automation
• Deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes
• Operate and trouble-shoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configuration issues; including low level application interaction, Linux systems, and next-gen networking software tools
• Maintain standards across the networking toolset and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies
• Drive and support innovation from Top of Rack to the Network Border and everything in between
• Work closely with the Network Architect to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as assist with deployment and sustaining of network infrastructure and tooling
• Proficient in either Python or Go programming language
• Experience working with networking protocols and APIs, ideally Open vSwitch and/or any RESTful APIs for network devices and services
• Proficient in network topologies and architectures (VLAN, LAN, WAN)
• Experience with automation frameworks, specifically Ansible, to write scripts and automate network configurations
• Experience with SONiC and Cumulus Network Operating System (NOS)
• Experience in rail-optimized technology • Experience with key OpenShift networking concepts, like Open vSwitch (OVS) / Open Virtual Network (OVN) to create an overlay network on top of the physical infrastructure to facilitate pod communication across nodes.
• Experience using the OpenShift Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) to interact with different network plugins and manage pod networking
• Familiarity with configuring, deploying, and maintaining the MetalLB Operator for traffic load balancing on bare metal clusters
• Experience using Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for discovery, load balancing, service-to-service authentication, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring services
• Proficient with the Network Observability Operator for network debugging and insights
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members, vendors, and customers to understand requirements and implement solutions
• Proficient time management to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced networking environment
Clearance Requirements
• Active TS/SCI clearance with Counterintelligence polygraph
