We are looking for a Network Engineer to support client operations at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) location below:
JOB LOCATION: 14501 Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, MD 20707
3 Days onsite, 2 Days Remote
Work Description:
Design, implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting network communications at WSSC Water. Utilizing his/her extensive knowledge of LAN/WAN systems, the individual in this position will take on responsibilities in areas of administration, engineering, architecture, monitoring, and troubleshooting of routers, switches, firewalls, VPN, load balancers and DNS and DHCP appliances and work collaboratively with IT team members on technology project implementations. The individual will develop and maintain documentation, including addressing plans, network topology diagrams, rack elevation, data flows, and variables. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing technical and problem-resolution support, along with maintaining the networking infrastructure and environment.
Duties / Responsibilities
- Designs, deploys, maintains, optimizes, and troubleshoots enterprise-class networks, including routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers.
- Plans and executes network changes, network hardware and software upgrades, refreshes, and replacements.
- Provides technical and problem-resolution support related to network hardware and software
- Supports the existing infrastructure and assists in designing and deploying data network solutions supporting business and technical initiatives.
- Utilizes network monitoring and management tools to evaluate the status of the environment daily, performs capacity planning, network analysis, and optimization
- Develop and maintain comprehensive and timely documentation, including addressing plans, network topology diagrams, rack elevations, data flows, and other technical documentation.
- Delivers periodic reports concerning network metrics, including, but not limited to, network uptime statistics, bandwidth consumption, network link utilization, and outages for network links and network equipment.
- Works with ISPs and circuit providers to bring up circuits and resolve data communications issues as they arise
Experience/Qualification/Knowledge Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or other related field with five years of hands-on experience or High school diploma or equivalent with ten years of direct hands-on networking experience
- Active Cisco CCNP Certification or CheckPoint Certification
- Knowledge of Cisco NXOS-based routers and switches and Cisco ISE Experience in enterprise network operations
- Knowledge of Checkpoint Firewall
Preferred Experience (optional):
- Hands-on experience with network routing protocols like EIGRP, BGP & OSPF and switching technologies like Spanning Tree, EtherChannel, Port Security, and 802.1X
- Experience with application Citrix load-balancing and Citrix Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
Salary: Negotiable