Network Engineer

• Lead, schedule and oversee the activities with other team members to resolve end user hardware and software problems in a timely and accurate fashion
  
• Primary job duties and responsibilities including testing, deployment, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and documentation of a statewide network, utilizing industry best practices for security, disaster recovery and business continuity, change control, and client support.
  
• Assistance in the creation of robust network designs, acting as the escalation point of contact and lead engineer for implementations and provide ongoing support and maintenance.
  
• Oversight of the configuration, maintenance, and documentation of routers, switches, wireless controllers, load balancers, WAN optimizers, and management and security appliances
  
• Designing, developing, analyzing, troubleshooting, and documenting computer networks and infrastructure
  
• Developing and analyzing network designs and protocols including prototyping and assessment.
  
• Performing planning, engineering, forecasting and implementation, and identification of resource requirements for network systems
  
• Leading or assisting in major network projects to support capacity growth, upgrades and new products/features, and integration
  
• Evaluating current network systems and recommending changes in maintenance and systems standards, and training support personnel on the conversion, implementation, and troubleshooting
  
• Applying in-depth up-to-date knowledge of standards, guidelines, industry trends and similar for LAN, WAN, Wireless, Data Center, Cloud networking interconnection
  
• Driving improvements in network process, efficiency, and standardization. Ensuring security compliance, change control processes and adherence to standards
  
• Providing upper tier of diagnosis, isolation, and resolution of network problems. Identifying and documenting root cause. Proactively identifying potential issues in the production environment and recommending potential solutions
  
• Developing comprehensive graphical and text-based documentation and effectively managing the implementation process from design to acceptance
  
• Generating weekly status reports including project progress, key milestones, and tasks accomplished, etc.
  
• Hosting weekly status meetings/calls with team or on as needed basis.
  
• Lifting personal computers, printers, scanners, and other equipment associated with a standard computer workstation.
  
• Reporting as follows: (1) Weekly report communicating project progress and status, (2) Weekly time reporting on JIS provided forms, and (3) Any additional reports as assigned by the supervising manager.
  

Requirements

• Bachelors/Associate degree in Information Technology (IT) or a related field, as determined by the client
  
• Eight (8) years of CONUS technical experience in IT networking
  
• Possess active (i.e., not expired) certification as follows;
  
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Enterprise or Security Certification.
  

• High Availability in Enterprise
  
• Scalable routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF).
  
• Advanced WAN service layers, SDWANs and WAN Optimization applications.
  
• Current Network Security applications, services and appliances including Identity Management, Network Access Control, Application Layer Inspection, Content and Malware Filtering, Data Loss and Intrusion Prevention, zero-day threats, IPsec and SSL VPN, PKI, Two-Factor Authentication and other.
  
• Network Management Protocols, Applications and Operating System capabilities.
  
• Experience with:
  
• Layer 2&3 optimization and boundary, virtual switching systems.
  
• Enterprise Data Center and cloud Networking for Virtualization, SDN, Load Balancing, storage.
  
• Zero Trust Network Access and micro-segmentation.
  
• Enterprise VoIP and physical security environments - access control and video surveillance network applications.
  
• Quality-of-Service design and implementation.
  
• Installation and configuration of Cisco Catalyst, Nexus, and Palo Alto platforms.
  
• Installation, configuration, securing and troubleshooting enterprise wireless access systems
  
• Knowledge of the following:
  
• infrastructure Services and experience with IPAM products.
  
• IP multicast, Enterprise Video conferencing, streaming and on demand components.
  
• Coding languages for scripting
  
• Familiarity with major server and desktop operating systems and utilities are required
  
• Sharp troubleshooting, organizational and mentoring skills and ability work independent.
  
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and team skills.