Network Support Engineer (IPv6)

$123,250 - $166,750/Yr

GD Information Technology, Inc.

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote

10,001+ employees

About the position

As a Network Engineer Senior at GDIT, you will play a crucial role in transforming technology into opportunity by ensuring the smooth operation of the customer's network. This position involves supporting IPv4-to-IPv6 migrations, addressing network-related issues, and implementing configuration changes. You will work collaboratively with application owners and customers to translate business requirements into technical solutions, while also providing technical support and maintaining relevant networking equipment. This is a remote position, but candidates must be able to travel to Maryland for badging prior to starting.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for IPv4-to-IPv6 migrations and network-related issues.
• Administer, monitor, upgrade, and maintain networking equipment.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve network issues as they arise.
• Develop and execute test cases to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Provide technical support to remediate network issues and mitigate security vulnerabilities.
• Communicate effectively with the team, customer, and application owners.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology and best practices.
• Develop, maintain, and adhere to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Provide knowledge transfer of relevant technology to team members and program successors.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of related experience in Networking.
• At least 3 years of experience in Networking with hands-on experience in Cisco routers and switches.
• At least 1 year of experience actively working with IPv6 in a production capacity.
• Thorough understanding of LAN, WAN, network routing, VLANs, and both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols.
• Basic understanding of Azure and/or AWS networking, NSG, and VPC.
• Ability to translate customer business requirements into network/system requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree strongly preferred.
• Possess or will possess in the near future a CCNA, Cloud (AWS or Azure), Palo Alto, or CompTIA+ Certification.
• Experience with business tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, ServiceNow, and MS Teams.
• Experience with development tools: Trello, JIRA, Git, Confluence.
• Experience with Agile methodologies: SCRUM and/or KanBan.
• Experience working in any HHS agencies or entities.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options.
• Vision plan.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Paid time off plans including vacation, sick, personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period.
• Short and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.