Cisco ACI Engineer

Type of Requisition:Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:None

Job Family:Network Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:Cisco ACI, Network Engineering, Network Infrastructures

Certifications:None

Experience:4 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:Yes

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cisco ACI Engineer supporting CENTCOM CCJ6-NO. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cisco ACI Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Cisco ACI Engineer joining our team to provide engineering and O&M support maintaining USCENTCOM’s Datacenter Architecture.

HOW A CISCO ACI ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

Work alongside Network and System Engineers responsible providing datacenter services throughout USCENTCOM to achieve mission requirements. This entails deploying new hardware/software, services both maintaining and up upgrading current servers and or services.

Be able to accurately analyze datacenter architectures, workflows, problems, situations, practices, or procedures to identify relevant concerns and factors

Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with multiple work centers and clients within USCENTCOM, and also be able to work with other DoD agencies as necessary, information services (IS) team members, contract and government management, and IT personnel/staff

Work with Network and System teams to resolve service affecting outages. This includes routing, switching, cabling, micro-segmentation, contracts as it pertains to Cisco ACI environment, network gear for LAN and servers for physical and virtualized services environment.

Is a member of the USCENTCOM Network Operations team but also works with and alongside multiple other IT verticals located within USCETNCOM and our partners

Cisco ACI engineer must have experience building and operating data center network fabrics. Experience with network routing protocols and Ethernet switching. Background in troubleshooting large, complex networks. Understanding of VMWare with VDS, NSX and Hypervisor platforms a plus. Experience with IT Service Management and Highly Reliability Organizations a plus

All the above skills will be used to assist in maintain current datacenter fabric and to help move the architecture forward as new technologies evolve

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education: Bachelor's: Computer Science, Information Technology. Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma. or related field TYPICAL EXPERIENCE: 4 years recent relevant experience deploying Datacenter Fabrics (preferably Cisco ACI fabrics)

Required Experience:

3-5 years hands on Datacenter experience (Cisco ACI and VMWare (deployed with VDS and NSX)

Required Technical Skills:

Network specialty, Data Center Network infrastructure which may include: Nexus 7000/9000, NXOS, Cisco ACI, Fabric Path, Multi Site Orchestrator (MSO), Packet Brokers, and Firewalls. Ability to implement and maintain protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MP-BGP, GRE, NAT, VRF/Routing, vPC, FabricPath, OTV, BFD, PIM, FHRP, STP, LACP, EVPN, VMM, EPLD, SPAN and VXLAN. Familiarity with ACI Policy Model. Experience integrating ACI with Cisco Tetration and or Cisco Secure Workload in concert with VMware. Troubleshoot IP underlay, IP overlay, Ethernet, and Multicast. Knowledge in complex Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure.

Experience working within datacenter constructs deploying Cisco Dashboard Fabric Controller

Experience working within datacenter constructs using Nexus Dashboards would be a plus; we maintain several smaller environments utilizing Cisco Nexus Dashboards.

Security Clearance Level:

SECRET clearance required– with potential of getting TOP SECRET

Required Skills and Abilities:

Verbal and writing skills to effectively communicate with diverse groups such as: executives, managers, and subject matter experts. Be able to effectively and clearly organize and communicate thoughts and ideas. Organize workflow to accomplish established objectives. Prioritize assignments to complete work in a timely manner. Work independently and follow through on assignments with minimal direction. Additionally, be able to be a part of a larger IT team or collaborate with colleagues from different departments to achieve a common goal or to gain better understanding of client needs. Perform effectively in environments with frequent and fluctuating workload changes, competing demands, and frequent interruptions and/or distractions.

Preferred Skills:

Routing Protocol(s): EIGRP, OSPF, BGP

LAN/WAN Design concepts

Identity Management (Cisco ISE)

Location:

USCENTCOM HQs – onsite Tampa, FL

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU:

401K with company match

Comprehensive health and wellness packages

Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

Cutting-edge technology and the ability to make a real impact on the world around you.

#ARMA

#CENTCOMCITS

The likely salary range for this position is $83,429 - $103,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:40

Travel Required:Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:Onsite

Work Location:USA FL MacDill AFB

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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