CISCO Infrastructure Engineer

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.

DUTIES INCLUDE:

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

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

1. CLEARANCE : Active DoD Secret clearance. Must have the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
2. CERTIFICATION : IAT Level II (CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent)
3. EDUCATION : Bachelor of Science Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field, OR equivalent work experience in lieu of degree
4. YEAR'S EXPERIENCE: 6+ years experience
5. TECHNICAL SKILLS:
6. Expertise in implementing, ideally for DoD customers, including the following:
7. 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.
8. Windows Server/desktop (Secondary focus, backup the primary Windows Admin)
   • Active Directory
   • GPO management
   • Patch management
   • WSUS
   • Hardening per DISA STIG Guidelines.
9. DoD CC SRG and STIGs (mandatory)
10. LOCATION : Chantilly, VA (All work will require performance in a secure facility in Chantilly, VA. Telecommuting MAY be allowed for non-secure performance.)

DESIRED:

1. CERTIFICATION : CCNA, CCNP or other related CISCO certification
2. TECHNICAL SKILLS: DoD Cloud Environments (IL4/IL5/IL6) – on both classified and unclassified networks
3. SKILLS & ABILITIES: Willingness to learn new skills

Additional Information

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