Location
Laurel, MD | United States
Job description
Network Engineer
woodcons.com
Provides assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks; Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents; Implements communication system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment; Analyzes network characteristics (e.g. traffic connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes and throughput), troubleshoots problems and recommends procurement of and/or modifications to network components.
Security Clearance Requirements:
This position requires candidates to be U.S. Citizens and possess a TS/SCI Security Clearance with an appropriate Polygraph
- Conduct network and telecommunications system incident and problem investigation and diagnostics
- Identify and document workaround solutions for network and telecommunications systems incidents.
- Identify, design, test, deploy, and document solutions for network and telecommunications problems.
- Assess, evaluate, test, and apply operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes; verify and document methods and procedures to apply them.
- Install and configure new network and telecommunications systems hardware and software.
- Design, test, verify, and document network system backup methods and procedures.
- Design, build, integrate, test, document and deploy network and telecommunications systems for deployment
- Create and maintain network and telecommunications systems diagrams and configuration documentation; provide network configuration management support to facilitate maintenance activities.
- Configure, test, install, troubleshoot, and maintain security devices such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, cryptographic devices, and routers to optimize performance and ensure the desired security posture is attained and maintained.
- Provide monitoring support of accredited network and telecommunications systems for compliance with Certification and Accreditation.
- Configure, test, install, troubleshoot, and maintain VoIP phone systems, including phone units, voicemail, and call manager systems
- Configure, test, install, troubleshoot, and maintain Video Teleconference (VTC) systems and video recording/viewing/distribution systems.
- Configure, test, install, troubleshoot, and maintain Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) TDMA IP-based satellite systems.
- Design, configure, test, install, and implement network solutions to support requirements for routing protocols, policy based routing, traffic shaping, border gateway protocols, tunneling, IP
- Security, network address translations, network security, firewall contexts, load-
- Conduct Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) session performance analysis and problem isolation.
- Configure, test, install, troubleshoot, and maintain Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) TDMA IP-based satellite systems.
- Perform module, unit, subsystem, and system level testing following documented method and procedures.
Required Education & Years of Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required and ten (10) years’ experience as a Network Engineer.
- Five (5) additional years of experience in Network Engineering disciplines may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Required Certifications
- Cisco Certified Network Professional - (CCNP) Routing and Switching
- Cisco Certified Network Professional - (CCNP) Security
- Cisco Certified Network Professional - (CCNP) Voice
WOOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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