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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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🟡 Mid-level

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🛜 Network Engineer / Network Administrator

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• Configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco Nexus data-center switching environments • Support Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure fabrics and policy-based network configurations • Configure and maintain APICs, tenants, VRFs, bridge domains, endpoint groups, contracts, and external connectivity • Support software-defined networking across data-center infrastructure • Install, configure, maintain, refresh, and troubleshoot top-of-rack switches, data-center switches, network appliances, and related connectivity • Support physical and logical connectivity among servers, storage, virtualization environments, appliances, cloud services, and enterprise networks • Configure and troubleshoot VLANs, trunks, port channels, vPCs, routing, access controls, and redundant network paths • Support network architecture, integration, implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and performance analysis • Gather and document technical requirements for installations, data-center connectivity, equipment refreshes, and relocations • Develop implementation procedures, migration plans, cutover plans, validation steps, rollback procedures, and outage contingencies • Execute approved installations, configuration changes, equipment refreshes, and hardware replacements • Support relocation cutovers at USMEPCOM and MEPS locations • Perform equipment staging, configuration validation, connectivity testing, implementation, and post-cutover verification • Coordinate with cabling personnel on rack layouts, patching, fiber, copper cabling, network drops, and equipment interconnections • Support site surveys and update network diagrams, rack layouts, as-built documentation, and equipment inventories • Test network devices and configurations before production installation • Apply approved firmware, operating-system, vendor, security, and configuration updates • Configure devices according to security requirements and DISA STIGs • Monitor availability, utilization, performance, capacity, faults, interfaces, and data-center connectivity • Troubleshoot Layer 2, Layer 3, fabric, switching, routing, latency, packet-loss, and connectivity issues • Support WAN, LAN, circuit, SD-WAN, firewall, VPN, wireless, and cloud-connectivity troubleshooting • Participate in Outage Response Team activities and support diagnosis, restoration, workarounds, corrective actions, and root-cause analysis • Coordinate technical escalations with senior engineers, Cisco, DISA, telecommunications providers, vendors, and external support organizations • Support remote MEPS and other locations with network-connectivity issues • Follow incident, change, configuration, release, and service-transition processes • Maintain configurations, implementation records, change documentation, test results, troubleshooting procedures, and knowledge articles • Identify recurring issues, performance constraints, configuration problems, and potential points of failure • Escalate complex issues, operational risks, and proposed changes to senior engineering personnel

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Networking, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field • Between 3 and 7 years of relevant network engineering, network administration, data-center networking, or enterprise infrastructure experience • Current Cisco Certified Network Professional certification • Hands-on experience supporting Cisco Nexus switches and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure • Experience supporting ACI tenants, VRFs, bridge domains, endpoint groups, contracts, APICs, and external network connectivity • Experience with software-defined networking and policy-based data-center network architectures • Experience configuring top-of-rack switches, virtual port channels, port channels, VLANs, trunks, routing, and redundant network paths • Experience supporting data-center connectivity among compute, storage, virtualization, cloud, security, and network platforms • Experience supporting network installations, hardware refreshes, migrations, maintenance activities, and relocation cutovers • Experience executing method-of-procedure documents, implementation plans, test plans, rollback procedures, and cutover checklists • Experience supporting network-related outages, service restoration, vendor escalation, and root-cause analysis • Knowledge of Cisco routing and switching technologies, including EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VLAN routing, and Quality of Service • Experience supporting WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, circuits, firewalls, VPNs, wireless infrastructure, load balancers, and cloud connectivity • Experience with network-monitoring, configuration-management, performance-management, and observability platforms • Experience applying DISA STIGs or supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, and POA&M requirements • Experience maintaining network diagrams, rack layouts, as-built documentation, equipment inventories, and configuration records • Familiarity with structured cabling, patch panels, fiber connectivity, inside-plant infrastructure, and network-drop planning • Additional certifications such as CCNP Data Center, CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, CompTIA Security+, or equivalent credentials • ITIL Foundation or higher certification • Experience working in a federal or Department of Defense network environment • Ability to support travel, after-hours outages, maintenance windows, installations, refreshes, and relocation cutovers when required

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Travel or on-site support as required for installations, site surveys, equipment refreshes, outages, or relocation cutovers • Opportunity to support a federal government contract program • After-hours work and maintenance-window support as required