F5 Network Engineer

VAE, Inc. is a full service IT Infrastructure Solutions Company focused on building, securing and supporting our clients’ mission critical enterprises. We provide a distinctive array of design, integration and implementation services as well as fully managed service offerings. VAE is at the forefront of leveraging multi-tenant capable technologies and shared IT services to create secure, reliable and cost-effective end-to-end services and solutions. We deliver exceptional infrastructure solutions with extremely talented employees using a client-focused partnering approach.

VAE is seeking an F5 Network Engineer to support our Operations Team contract at the Pentagon. Due to the nature of this role, the employee must report full-time onsite in in Arlington, VA. As an F5 Network Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, oversight, and direction to the Core Transport Network Engineering team and mentors and instructs network engineers on best practices and the execution of network enhancements and upgrades and troubleshooting e

• Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance
• Certi?cations: DoD 8570 IAT Level II certi?cation.
• Must have ONE or more of the following active network certi?cations: Cisco Certi?ed Network Administrator (CCNA), Cisco Certi?ed Network Professional (CCNP) or Aruba Certi?ed Switching Associate (ACSA).
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, OR equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• Years' Experience:
• 10 or more years of related information technology experience
• 3 years’ experience supporting DOD, DISA, or JSP Network environments.
• Expert knowledge of information technology principles, methods, and techniques.
• Experience with F5 load balancers to include troubleshooting, con?guring, upgrading, maintaining, and monitoring an enterprise F5 load balancer network architecture.
• Extensive experience troubleshooting, managing, and monitoring the health of Cisco and Juniper routers and switches.
• Extensive experience in Software De?ne Networks (SDN). Broad understanding of network infrastructure topologies, security policies, ?rewalls, and the L2/L3 switch and router infrastructure.
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting network systems, switching, and routing protocol standards such as: TCP/IP, MPLS, OSPF, BGP, SDN, and 802.1x.
• Experience managing and troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NTP in a large multi-site environment.
• Experience with network security, including ?rewall, IDS/IPS, VPN, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience using network management and analysis tools such as SNMP probes, network taps, and tra

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