Senior Network Administrator

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting agency, has an immediate o pportunity to support a mission-critical, dynamic Department of Justice program as a Senior Network Administrator supporting a highly capable and diverse team driving technical innovation.

• The environment is comprised of Arista, Netgear switches, Watchguard firewalls.
• Troubleshooting layer 3 level is a big plus.
• The SNA shall lead moderately complex network projects or phases of a large project.
• The SNA shall provide technical guidance and leadership; determines deliverable and work schedules, and act as Offeror's representative to customer technical personnel while leading Offeror's network requirements analysis activities, as well as Offeror's maintenance and/or upgrades to customer network operations.
• The SNA shall be responsible for ensuring Offeror meets established network deliverable deadlines and performance standards.
• SNA shall have demonstrated past performance of leading teams of personnel with Network Administrator skills.
• SNA shall have senior level engineering knowledge in design, documentation and implementation of all Network Administrator skillsets.
• Successful candidate will be strong in critical thinking, has done some design and is a problem solver.

Requirements

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, with 6(six) or more years of work experience in monitoring, managing and administering internet protocol (IP) networks in a production environment or, in lieu of education, ten (10) years of experience.

Skill Level:

• At a minimum, the Network Administrator, senior level, shall have demonstrated experience in:
• A relevant industry certification, such as COMPTIA Network+, Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA), etc.
• Experience leading teams of personnel with Network Administrator skills
• Proficiency designing, building, and maintaining physical and virtual networking devices, encryption (experience with Taclanes preferred), Firewall devices and rules, and networking Layer 2 and 3 devices and configurations
• Expertise researching, evaluating, testing, recommending, integrating deploying, and installing network equipment and solutions to meet objectives and requirements to include new technologies.
• Ability to confer with and advise management, engineers, senior network administrators, and system administrators on the management, functional capabilities and enhancement of supported networks.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, test, document, and implement changes to communications networks to ensure efficient operation, interoperability with supported and affiliated tools, systems and networks, and maximized user experience.
• Development of automated methods to deploy switches and firewalls with consistent results using applicable technologies for various manufacturer products.
• Ability to manage, train and developing skills of junior network administrators.
• Proven ability to proactively troubleshoot, resolve, and provide technical assistance related to networking issues in support of mission objectives and customer issues and requirements.
• Experience conducting reverse engineering of networks, producing documentation, and the ability explain results and potential areas of improvement and optimization.
• Resolve interoperability problems to maintain connectivity throughout the network
• Analyze traffic information and provide analyses to justify network optimization and reconfiguration
• Provide technical assistance, training and system documentation for users to promote efficient operation of communication networks
• Evaluate and recommend products and services from vendors
• Conduct reverse engineering of networks, provide documentation, and explain results.
• Must have Top Secret clearance with the ability to sit for a CI Poly .

Security Clearance Required: Top Secret

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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