Lead Network Engineer - Data Center & Enterprise Networking

About the role

Booz Allen is looking for a seasoned network engineer to join its team focused on data center and enterprise networking. The role covers upgrading and developing enterprise-wide infrastructure, troubleshooting complex network issues and increasing security, reliability and availability of mission-critical systems. It also supports connectivity between private cloud and co-located hosted infrastructure and public cloud, and assists with network consolidation during mergers and acquisitions. U.S. citizenship is required.

Key responsibilities

• Upgrade or develop enterprise-wide infrastructure and troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues
• Analyze current infrastructure and improve security, reliability and availability of mission-critical systems
• Support connectivity to and from private cloud and co-located hosted infrastructure with public cloud integration
• Support branch office and WAN site network capabilities
• Design and configure connectivity to devices in a colocation data center
• Assist with merger and acquisition-related network infrastructure consolidation and integration

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in data center networking environments for medium to large enterprises
• 8+ years of experience with Cisco switches, routers and Nexus platforms
• 8+ years of experience configuring and supporting routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP or OSPF
• Experience deploying and managing Cisco ACI and implementing cloud-edge designs linking on-premises networks to cloud environments
• Experience with Aruba SilverPeak Edge Connect devices
• Experience in multi-vendor environments, network monitoring and logging, and automation with Ansible and Python
• Ability to handle on-call and emergency incidents and escalate network events
• Ability to use ServiceNow for daily IT tasks
• HS diploma or GED

Nice to have

• Data center technologies, virtualization, cloud IaaS (Azure or AWS), F5 load balancing, firewalls and security
• Cisco wireless and Cisco ISE
• Cisco CCIE or CCNP Data Center certification

What we offer

• Health, life, disability, financial and retirement benefits, paid leave and professional development
• Tuition assistance, work-life programs and dependent care
• A recognition awards program for exceptional performance
• Projected annual salary range of $99,000 to $225,000 depending on experience and skills