Network Admin

Position: Network Admin

Location: Fairfax VA 22030

Type: Contract

12 years of experience in the field or related subject matter area.

Ideal Candidate:
Team is looking for a solid junior level team member who brings 2 years of handson technical foundational experience. The best candidate will be looking for long term professional growth opportunities possesses a 4year degree in a computer science or other technology discipline and/or industry certifications.

This position is not for senior level candidates rather those who are professionally motivated with excellent verbal and written communication skills selfmotivated and interested in enhancing their technical knowledgebase and professional value.

Job Description:

• Respond to Tier 1 network support requests.
• Provides exceptional customer service.
• Communicates effectively with teammates and customers of varying levels of technical expertise.
• Responds to all break/fix requests associated with network resources.
• Assists with configuration and deployment of new/replacement network hardware and communications infrastructure.
• Maintains uptodate project and architecture documentation.
• Maintains uptodate inventory and maintenance records.
• 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.
  
  The Network Administrator installs configures and supports an organizations local area network (LAN) wide area network (WAN) and Internet system or a segment of a network system. Maintain network hardware and software. Monitor 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. Maintains the networks 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.
  
  Skill Required
• Cisco Routing and Switching
• Routing Protocols (BGP OSPF etc)
• VLAN Management
• Subnetting
• STP FHRP Multicast