Introduction
Consulting Intro on req
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Position is located in Radford, VA and requires 5 days onsite

This position is for a Network Engineer focused on the implementation and sustainment of switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers and network management tools. The focus is a datacenter environment supporting two separate DoD networks. Responsibilities include network management/analysis/troubleshooting, developing and maintaining local operating procedures and policies, developing and maintaining network automation and scripts, and monitoring the ongoing operation of the network.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
This position requires a Secret Security clearance or higher (US Citizenship is required)

Required Certifications:

• CompTIA Security+ or other IAT II Baseline equivalent
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification Professional Level or higher (i.e., Cisco CCNP, Cisco CCNP Datacenter, Juniper, Palo Alto, F5 etc.)
• 5+ years of Network Engineering
• 5+ years of configuring and maintaining switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers and network management tools
• Experience with network management, analysis and troubleshooting tools
• Experience with Data Center Management
• Ability to train junior team members
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, written and verbal communication abilities
• Experience in implementing and maintaining security management strategies. (DISA STIGs experience preferred but not required)
• Experience with development of project documentation to include standard operating procedures, project plans, and network diagrams
• Strong networking background
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong documentation skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of switch management experience
• Experience with the Cisco Nexus (7K, 5K, and 2K) line and Cisco Catalyst line
• Experience with Palo Alto firewalls
• Experience with Cisco ACI
• Experience with F5 load balancers
• Experience with Ansible and Python
• Experience with network automation and scripting
• Experience interfacing with cloud environment counterparts (AWS, Azure, Private)
• Experience working in DevSecOps environments.

ITES-3 education/experience requirements:
Intermediate level LCAT Bachelors +5 or Associates +7
Senior level LCAT Masters +10 or Bachelors +12