Direct Client: The Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts
Job Title: Network Engineer
Duration: 05 Years
Start Date: ASAP
Location: 189 Harry S. Truman Parkway Annapolis MD 21401 (Hybrid 2 Days Remote and 3 Days Onsite in a week)
Position Type: FullTime (40 Hours a Week)
Interview Type: Webcam / InPerson
Ceipal ID: SMDNETW929DK
Requirement ID: K
Description: The Network Engineer will participate in planning and coordinating the design installation and connectivity of computer and network systems to ensure stable scalable redundant and secure network operations.
Responsibilities:
- Designing developing analyzing troubleshooting and documenting computer networks and infrastructure.
- 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.
- 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 and/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 indepth uptodate knowledge of standards guidelines industry trends and similar for LAN WAN Wireless Data Center Cloud networking and 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 textbased documentation and effectively managing the implementation process from design to acceptance.
- Hosting weekly status meetings/calls with team or on as needed basis.
- Leading scheduling and overseeing the activities with other team members to resolve end user hardware and software problems in a timely and accurate fashion.
- Assisting 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 security appliances WAN optimizers and management and security appliances.
- Reporting as follows:
- Weekly report communicating project progress and status
- Weekly time reporting on JIS provided forms and
- Any additional reports as assigned by the supervising manager.
Skills and Capabilities:
- Layer 2 & 3 optimization and boundary virtual switching systems.
- Scalable routing protocols (BGP EIGRP OSPF).
- Enterprise Data Center and cloud Networking for Virtualization SDN Load Balancing storage.
- Zero Trust Network Access and microsegmentation.
- High Availability in Enterprise.
- Advanced WAN service layers SDWANs and WAN Optimization applications.
- Current Network Security Services applications services and appliances including but not limited to:
- Identity Management.
- Network Access Control.
- Application Layer Inspection.
- Content and Malware Filtering.
- Data Loss and Intrusion Prevention.
- Zeroday threats.
- IPsec and SSL VPN.
- PKI.
- TwoFactor Authentication.
- Enterprise VoIP and physical security environments access control and video surveillance network applications.
- QualityofService design and implementation.
- Network Management Protocols Applications and Operating System capabilities.
- Installation and configuration of Cisco Catalyst Nexus and Palo Alto platforms.
- Installation configuration securing and troubleshooting enterprise wireless access systems.
- Ability to:
- Work independently troubleshoot and provide mentoring to junior associates.
- Communicate effectively when providing presentations.
- Produce technical documents (diagrams design documents project plans and schedules and user instructions) as required.
- Infrastructure Services and IPAM products.
- IP multicast Enterprise Video conferencing streaming and on demand components.
- Coding languages for scripting.
- Major server desktop operating systems and utilities.
Qualifications:
- Associate or Bachelors Degree in an Information Technology (IT) related field (as determined by the AOC).
- Ten (10) years of CONUS technical experience in IT networking.
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) or Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) in Enterprise Infrastructure or Security Certification.
- Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) Certification.
- Prisma Certified Cloud Security Engineer (PCCSE) Certification from Palo Alto Networks.
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