With over 45 years of experience, Kforce continues to set the standard in the technology staffing & solutions industry. With an unwavering commitment, Kforce strives to provide candidates with exceptional service in meeting their employment and career needs. Kforce provides consulting, contract-to-hire or direct hire positions with a wide range of organizations; from small, privately held companies to large, multinationals. Our technical specialty areas include: data management, functional and business analysis, infrastructure and systems application development.

Backed by approximately 1,900 staffing specialists, Kforce is committed to "Great People = Great Results" for our valued clients and candidates. Our Firm operates with 62 offices in 41 markets in North America and two in the Philippines.

Our client is seeking a Network Engineer to work for a client in the federal government space. This person will bring network engineering expertise to assist the client in achieving short term and long term expectations and goals. Candidates who are qualified and interested are encouraged to apply.

Minimum / General Experience:

• Cisco Access-Layer Switches- 3500, 3550, 3750 series


• Cisco Collapsed Core- 6500, 6000 series


• Cisco Edge Routers- 2800 ISR, 7200 series


• Firewalls- Cisco ASA, Cisco FWSM (Firewall Switch Module), Checkpoint NG, and Cisco ASDM


• VPN- Cisco ASA, Juniper SA2000


• Both IPSec and SSL VPN experience


• F5 Load-Balancers


• Juniper IDS (Intrusion Detection)


• Cisco ACS


• Orion and/or Cirrus Network Monitoring

• Switching


• STP (Spanning-Tree Protocol)


• VLAN/VTP configurations


• HSRP (Hot-Standby Routing Protocol)


• Switch stacking and failover configurations


• Routing


• Route selection metrics


• Static route configuration


• Basic BGP knowledge


• Policy Route configuration


• Firewalls


• Virtualized multi-context firewall setup and configuration


• Site-to-Site VPN configurations (from command line)


• Remote Access VPN configurations


• NAT and PAT (Network Address Translation)


• DMZ configuration and segregation methodologies


• Firewall access-list configurations and application


• Firewall failover configurations


• Network Management


• SNMP


• TACACS / RADIUS


• Cisco ACS configuration


• Syslog


• Sniffer technologies - Wireshark, Observer, etc.


• VPN


• IPSec -versus- SSL VPN (know the differences between the two)


• Site-to-Site versus Remote-Access VPN (ditto)


• Cisco IOS command-line configuration


• Juniper, Cisco, and CheckPoint GUIs