Unclassified - Arlington, VA
posted 3 months ago
GDIT is seeking an F5 Network Engineer to support our Operations Team and join our JSP ETM-NG (Joint Service Provider Enterprise Transport Management - Next Gen) contract at the Pentagon. This role requires the employee to report full-time onsite in Arlington, VA. As an F5 Network Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, oversight, and direction to the Core Transport Network Engineering team. You will mentor and instruct network engineers on best practices and the execution of network enhancements, upgrades, and troubleshooting efforts in a large and complex network environment. Your responsibilities will include ensuring the health and maintenance of a large networking infrastructure, which encompasses providing network administration and operational support to over 8000 networked devices. In this position, you will be responsible for comprehensive network administration, security enhancements, and remediation, as well as troubleshooting network devices such as routers, switches, load balancers, VPNs, 802.11 Wireless, and VoIP. A strong understanding of best practices pertaining to network security is essential, as you may be required to develop, deploy, and integrate network security services. The F5 Network Engineer should be capable of working both independently and collaboratively within a team. Your impact as an F5 Network Engineer will be significant. You will act as a subject-matter expert in network routing and switching, as well as network performance monitoring and troubleshooting. You will review the completion and implementation of system additions and enhancements, making recommendations to management and clients. Additionally, you will evaluate new applications, infrastructure, and cloud decisions in the context of existing applications, infrastructure, standards, and business strategies. You will provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced IT staff and may have supervisory responsibilities. Your role will also involve serving as a liaison with senior clients to ensure their needs are met, providing problem and incident resolution, and deploying and maintaining network hardware and services in accordance with industry standards.