Junior Network Engineer
ECS Corporate Services

ECS is seeking a Jr. Network Engineer to work in our Fairfax, VA office.

Job Description:
ECS is seeking a Jr. Network Engineer to work as a member of a team managing and maintaining multiple network enclaves to support the DoD community.

We are a rapidly growing company that considers our employees and teams to be our most important assets. Our team environment provides opportunities for growth to individuals who are motivated to excel. We are situated in Merrifield, VA -- well positioned for most commutes within the Northern Virginia area. Our newly renovated office spaces are first in class facilitating a teamwork environment. We also offer opportunities for telework and have some of the most interesting advanced IT business in the DC area. Our growing program works with the most forward leaning technologies and extraordinary customers who are thought and action leaders in within the AI/ML domain. We offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package to the right person for this key position.

General Description:
The candidate will provide support to a team developing, maintaining, creating, documenting, and installing network and enclave infrastructure for a broad range of AI/ML datasets, research objectives, applications, and programming requirements. This is a demanding, high-energy position requiring innovative solutions to network, hardware, and software problems. The candidate will perform software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages. The candidate will schedule installations and upgrades and maintain them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures and will monitor and tune the system to achieve optimum performance levels. The candidate will do switch and router configurations. They will also assist with data center management. The candidate will have potential experience with data storage, standards, and structuring of large databases, specializing in database physical structure and functional capabilities, efficiency, security, back-up, and recovery specifications. The candidate will also manage server access for multiple, simultaneous, external vendors i.e., Government, academia, and industry. The candidate must have strong problem-solving skills.

*The job is located in Fairfax VA, with frequent local trips to Ashburn, VA and other locations in the National Capital Region. Periodic short-term travel (less than 10%) worldwide is required.

Required Skills:

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Secret Clearance
• Bachelors, or bachelor's completion in
• 1-2 years' experience
• Demonstrated experience working with and deploying solutions in production environments with Windows and Linux systems.
• Demonstrated experience in building and deploying physical systems.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting Networking and System issues.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting Linux Operating systems.
• Ability to pick up technologies quickly and document recommendations for customer and management approval.
• Write/edit and execute technical documents including, but not limited to: Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), CONOPS, and other documents as required.
• The successful candidate will possess excellent communication skills and be customer-service and career/growth-oriented.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated hands on experience with Major cloud service providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Demonstrated understanding of AI/ML Deployments supporting on premise and or cloud infrastructures.
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring and deploying automation/ configuration softwares (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Maintains an understanding of Storage technologies, Patch management solutions, and System orchestration

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. ECS promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3000+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.

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