Federal - Network Operations Specialist

Organization: Accenture Federal Services
Location: Arlington, VA

We are:
Accenture Federal Services, a U.S. based subsidiary of Accenture combining bold ideas with proven Accenture commercial innovation, new technologies and mission experience to help our federal clients reach their full potential in the cloud. Using the power of Accenture, we are expanding cloud adoption and taking programs to the next level. We are changing the way the world works and lives. Are you ready to help and learn as much as you can to make a difference We’ll give you numerous opportunities from training sessions to courses and certifications that will keep your tech smarts sharp. Join us in making yourself and our country better.

You are:

You will be responsible for day to day operations, and also be responsible for ensuring all site connectivity is up and functioning for all AFS sites 24x7x365.  You will participate in working support tickets and requests company wide, and participate in Operational projects.

Travel will be required as needed to the sites.

The work:

• Administration of all network equipment

• Configuration of switch port and firewalls

• Client project requirements set by Engineering

• Network support for local site as well as all other sites

• Solarwinds monitoring

• Airwave Monitoring

• Rotating On-call support schedule

Here's what you need:

• U.S. Citizenship Required

• Combined 3 years of experience in any of the following network technologies:

  o    Cisco Route/Switch to include patching and security updates

  o    Aruba Wireless Controller experience

  o    Palo Alto firewall experience

  o    Azure with VPN gateway, NSG experience

  o    Juniper SRX firewall experience

  o    Juniper MX Routing

  o    F5 experience

Bonus points if you have:

• Aruba Clearpass Policy Manager

• Gluware

• Solarwinds NPM

• Airwave Monitoring

• Aruba Mobility Conductor

• Zscaler web filtering

• Cisco Umbrella web filtering

As required by the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Accenture Federal Services provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only, the range of starting pay for this role is $71,600 - $100,299 and information on benefits offered is here.

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