CISCO Infrastructure Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

AETOS LLC is a Minority Owned CVE Certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) providing information technology solutions focused on building a business that is customer-centered and performance-oriented. At Aetos, we specialize in developing IT solutions to optimize functionality and efficiencies for government and commercial clients to meet their business needs.

Job Description

Aetos is seeking a CISCO Infrastructure Engineer to provide support for the Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS) Cloud Service Offering contract. This position will require the employee to report full-time onsite in Chantilly, VA.

As a CISCO Infrastructure Engineer, you will serve as technology expert and work as part of a team or independently. You will participate in the design, documentation, implementation, and management of IT services for a hybrid cloud capability. You will manage Enterprise IT Systems to enable highly available and secure services between on-premises datacenter capabilities and cloud services.

DUITES INCLUDE:

  • Extensive Cisco networking management of multi vlan segmented local LAN, as well as connectivity to remote customer uplink.
  • Manage and maintain switches, network firewalls, IDS/IPS and router, including all ACL’s.
  • Maintain ownership of high availability, high security IT operations.
  • Develop and presents IT infrastructure standard operating procedures to senior management.
  • Review and implements periodic status updates on scheduled maintenance and upgrade of all infrastructure systems.
  • Troubleshoots hardware, network, storage, virtualization, software and application issues to identify bottlenecks in operations and provides recommendations to ensure optimum performance and continuity of critical systems.
  • Contributes to the development and implementation of standards and best practices surrounding the use of enterprise products and applications.
  • Provides technical insight into the determination of technical inadequacies and/or deficiencies.
  • Generates technical strategies for enhanced operations, as well as ways to improve productivity across functional areas within the organization.
  • Participate in technical assessments and reviews to validate the technical approach and associated work products.
  • May provide guidance and direction to other professionals, acts in a consulting and/or advisory capacity; coordinates resolution of highly complex problems and tasks, possesses ability to meet and operate under deadlines.
  • Work with and provide information/documentation to a Cybersecurity team to obtain and maintain accreditation packages (checklists, STIGs, diagrams, etc).
  • Participate in Cyber evaluation exercises (environment scans, penetration testing, audits, etc).
  • Implementation of environment changes through a request for change (RFC) process.
  • Backup support for Systems Engineer regarding Microsoft OS, Active Directory, Group Policy and VMware services.

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

  • CLEARANCE: Active DoD Secret clearance. Must have the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
  • CERTIFICATION: IAT Level II (CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent)
  • EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field, OR equivalent work experience in lieu of degree
  • YEAR'S EXPERIENCE: 6+ years experience
  • TECHNICAL SKILLS:
  • Expertise in implementing, ideally for DoD customers, including the following:
  • Cisco networking equipment (Primary focus):
    • Router configs for BGP connection to remote customer and ACL management. (mandatory)
    • Switch configurations with multiple vlans and understanding of spanning tree. (mandatory)
    • ASA hardware firewall with ACL management and IDS/IPS management. (mandatory)
    • Hardening per DISA STIG Guidelines.
    • Cisco ISE experience.
    • 802.1x port Authentication with MAB management.
  • Windows Server/desktop (Secondary focus, backup the primary Windows Admin)
    • Active Directory
    • GPO management
    • Patch management
    • WSUS
    • Hardening per DISA STIG Guidelines.
  • DoD CC SRG and STIGs (mandatory)
  • LOCATION: Chantilly, VA (All work will require performance in a secure facility in Chantilly, VA. Telecommuting MAY be allowed for non-secure performance.)

DESIRED:

  • CLEARANCE: Active DoD Top Secret clearance
  • CERTIFICATION: CCNA, CCNP or other related CISCO certification
  • TECHNICAL SKILLS: DoD Cloud Environments (IL4/IL5/IL6) – on both classified and unclassified networks
  • SKILLS & ABILITIES: Willingness to learn new skills

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.