Senior Network Engineer

Position: Senior Network Engineer

Duration: 3year base period with two (2) oneyear option periods commencing from the Notice to Proceed (NTP) Effective Date.

Location: Baltimore MD (Onsite from Day 1)

Summary Statement:

The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) is issuing this CATS TORFP on behalf of the State Highway Administration (SHA) Office of Information Technology (OIT) is issuing this CATS Task Order Request for Proposals (TORFP) in order to procure the services defined in this section as specified in this TORFP from a task order between the successful master contractor and the State Highway Administration to obtain the services of one Master Contractor to provide twentyfive resources. These resources shall be highly qualified to provide services and support to SHA IT systems operations maintenance management as well as the support of SHAs IT infrastructure and associated technologies.

Additional Tasks

• To Contractor personnel shall be responsible for knowledge transfer activities such as background and status update meetings background and status update emails or job shadowing occurring on the reassignment of a project resource from one task/project to another (either permanent or temporary transfer).
• To Contractor personnel shall attend network section desktop section service desk or IT liaison meetings and other meetings upon request.
• To Contractor personnel shall assist in review and/or recommendations of hardware and/or software evaluations including Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) software as needed.
• To Contractor personnel shall assist in research efforts supporting the operations division as needed.

General Responsibilities of Network Engineer (Senior)

• The TO Contractor personnel shall in cooperation with other SHA network technicians work with SHA staff and IT liaisons supporting the SHA infrastructure end user needs and Tier 1 service desk. This includes the following tasks:
• Responsible for the design and implementation of large data communications or telecommunications networks. Plan and monitor the installation of communications circuits.
• Manage and monitor local area networks and associated equipment (e.g. bridges routers modem pools and gateways). Conduct short and longterm plans to meet communications requirements.
• Responsible for the design and implementation of Local Area Network (LAN) / Wide Area Network (WAN) using hub switching and router technology. Perform hardware/software analyses to provide comparative data of performance characteristics and suitability within the existing systems environment.
• Prepare tradeoff studies and evaluations for vendor equipment. Generate network monitoring/performance report for LAN/WAN utilization studies.
• Recommend network design changes/enhancements for improved system availability and performance.

Requirement Network Engineer (Senior)

• At least five (5) years of experience in the following technical areas:
• Senior level experience working in a network and IT systems environment including protocols (TCP/IP) equipment and services (DNS).
• Planning designing implementation and analyzing data or telecommunications networks.
• Network analysis/management tools and techniques.
• IT technology and long distance and local carrier management.
• Managing Personal Computers (PCs) in a client/server environment.

Required Offeror Experience:

The following experience is preferred and will be evaluated as part of the TO Technical Proposal.

• Offeror shall demonstrate at least five (5) years experience providing three (3) or more Network Engineer (Senior).

Preferred Personnel Experience:

The following experience is preferred and will be evaluated as part of the TO Technical Proposal.

• Offeror shall demonstrate experience in providing help desk end user and infrastructure support resources in a prior engagement within the last 3 years.
• Offeror shall demonstrate prior experience rapidly responding to a work order for additional resources at an ongoing engagement.
• Offeror shall demonstrate the extent to which the Customer (s) were satisfied with Offerors performance engaged in a five (5) year commitment.