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Network Engineer

TEKsystems c/o Allegis Group

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Public Trust
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$105,000 - $115,000
No Traveling
IT - Networking
Jefferson, AR (On-Site/Office)

Summary:
The main function of a network engineer is to determine user requirements and design specifications for computer networks. A typical network engineer is responsible for planning and implementing network upgrades.

Job Responsibilities:
• Adjust network sizes to meet volume or capacity demands.
• Communicate with customers, sales staff, or marketing staff to determine customer needs.
• Coordinate network operations, maintenance, repairs or upgrades.
• Design, build, or operate equipment configuration prototypes, including network hardware, software, servers, or server operation systems.
• Determine specific network hardware or software requirements such as platforms, interfaces, bandwidths, or routine schemas.
• Develop and implement solutions for network problems.
• Develop conceptual, logical or physical network designs.

Skills:
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
• Basic mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
• Knowledge of computer hardware as it relates to data storage.
• Knowledge of computer software, such as configuration management software, desktop communications software, operating system software and internet directory services software.

Education/Experience:
• Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or a related field required.
• 5-7 years' experience required.

Job Title
network engineer

Top Skills Details
The primary focus of the position is supporting the campus network in Jefferson however the engineer will be part of the enterprise network team and may be working tickets for anywhere in the enterprise. The engineer will also be in the on-call rotation which has about 20 people in it. They will be secondary 1 week and then primary 1 week. The technology stack is primarily Cisco catalyst and ISR\'s with some ACI. We do have Juniper in the core as well. Knowledge of BGP, OSPF is required. There are hardware refreshes that happen every year as gear is phased out/replaced. How much depends on funding the agency has. While it doesn't require cloud networking, it would be beneficial. FDA is moving toward Cisco SDWAN so knowledge there is a plus. We use ServiceNow and SolarWinds. Scripting isn't required but we are moving toward automation for as much as possible so knowledge of those would be helpful.
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Job Category
IT - Networking
Clearance Level
Public Trust