Network Administrator

Role: Network Administrator

Location: Fairfax, VA

Required Skills:                                                  
• General Information Technology  (10 Years)
• Cisco Routing and Switching (5 Years)
• VLAN Management (5 Years)
• Network Design (2 Years)
• Subnetting (5 Years)
• Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, etc) (3 Years)
• Integration Troubleshooting (2 Years)

Preferred Skills:
• Network Security
• DNS/DHCP
• Network Monitoring
• Network Cable Management
• Cisco FMC/Firepower
• Solutions Design Build
• Cybersecurity
• Software Integrations

Leadership Skills:
• The Network Administrator installs, configures, and supports an organization's local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet system or a segment of a network system
• Maintain network hardware and software. Monitor the network to ensure network availability to all system users and perform necessary maintenance to support network availability
• May supervise other network support and client server specialists and plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures
• Coordinate the development, implementation, and maintenance of a local area network or wide area network
• Maintain the network's physical and logical structures, including network connections
• Maintains network support software, analyzes user support statistics, and recommends appropriate measures
• Installs, tests, and maintains network hardware and software. Prepares and analyzes statistics on network utilization and availability
• Prepares training courses and provides user support and training in the use of available hardware, software, and utilities
• Performs tuning and capacity planning activities to enhance the performance of the network resources

About the Role: 

Client is looking for a solid mid-level team member who brings a minimum of 5 years of hands-on networking experience. The best candidate will be someone who is looking for long-term professional growth opportunities, possesses a 4-year degree and/or industry certifications. Requires experience, creativity and multitasking to independently and collaboratively achieve department service and support objectives for the Transportation Operations Center. Individual can work without assistance; can manage medium complexity work efforts; has some industry experience; can provide limited leadership to others; collaborates well with others

Job responsibilities:
• Responds to Tier 1 and 2 network and software support requests
• Communicates effectively with teammates and customers of varying levels of technical expertise
• Responds to all break/fix requests associated with network resources
• Designs extensions of and connections to the campus network
• Assists with configuration and deployment of new/replacement network hardware and communications infrastructure
• Maintains up-to-date project and architecture documentation
• Maintains up-to-date inventory and maintenance record
• Monitors network resources for faults and traffic anomalies
• Resolves connection issues between users and resources
• Maintains detailed change history of network changes
• Supports ITS Field Maintenance with communications implementation and troubleshooting
• Supports team efforts to improve cybersecurity controls and defenses
• Supports team efforts for threat hunting and mitigation
• Manages time and resource constraints