Network Engineer/Administrator Tier 2

Post Date

Jun 19, 2025

Location

Tampa,
Florida

ZIP/Postal Code

33621
US
Aug 24, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Network Engineer

Req #

TPA-789937

Pay Rate

$59 - $74 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

A client in Tampa is looking for a network engineer to work alongside Network and System Engineers responsible providing datacenter services throughout to achieve mission requirements. This entails deploying new hardware/software, services both maintaining and up upgrading current servers and or services.
Be able to accurately analyze datacenter architectures, workflows, problems, situations, practices, or procedures to identify relevant concerns and factors
Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with multiple work centers and clients within the organization, and also be able to work with other DoD agencies as necessary, information services (IS) team members, contract and government management, and IT personnel/staff
Work with Network and System teams to resolve service affecting outages. This includes routing, switching, cabling, micro-segmentation, contracts as it pertains to Cisco ACI environment, network gear for LAN and servers for physical and virtualized services environment.
Is a member of the Network Operations team but also works with and alongside multiple other IT verticals located within
Cisco ACI engineer must have experience building and operating data center network fabrics. Experience with network routing protocols and Ethernet switching. Background in troubleshooting large, complex networks. Understanding of VMWare with VDS, NSX and Hypervisor platforms a plus. Experience with IT Service Management and Highly Reliability Organizations a plus
All the above skills will be used to assist in maintain current datacenter fabric and to help move the architecture forward as new technologies evolve

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Required Skills & Experience

- 3-5 years hands on Datacenter experience (Cisco ACI and VMWare (deployed with VDS and NSX)
- Network specialty, Data Center Network infrastructure which may include: Nexus 7000/9000, NXOS, Cisco ACI, Fabric Path, Multi Site Orchestrator (MSO), Packet Brokers, and Firewalls.
- Ability to implement and maintain protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MP-BGP, GRE, NAT, VRF/Routing, vPC, FabricPath, OTV, BFD, PIM, FHRP, STP, LACP, EVPN, VMM, EPLD, SPAN and VXLAN
- Familiarity with ACI Policy Model. Experience integrating ACI with Cisco Tetration and or Cisco Secure Workload in concert with VMware. Troubleshoot IP underlay, IP overlay, Ethernet, and Multicast. Knowledge in complex Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure.
- Education: Bachelor's: Computer Science, Information Technology. Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma. or related field TYPICAL EXPERIENCE: 4 years recent relevant experience deploying Datacenter Fabrics (preferably Cisco ACI fabrics

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- 2 Cisco center certifications
- VMWare in the data center (NSX)
- Cisco ACI
- Experience working within datacenter constructs deploying Cisco Dashboard Fabric Controller)
- Experience working within datacenter constructs using Nexus Dashboards would be a plus; we maintain several smaller environments utilizing Cisco Nexus Dashboards.
- Routing Protocol(s): EIGRP, OSPF, BGP
- LAN/WAN Design concepts
- Identity Management (Cisco ISE)

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.