Job Description:
Trigyn's direct government client has a long-term contract opportunity for Lead Network Engineer in Baltimore, MD. The particulars of the opportunity are below:
NOTE: CANDIDATES ARE REQUIRED to live in DC, Maryland or Northern, VA in order to be considered for this position as they will be onsite, in addition to traveling to various sites within the Baltimore area.
Description:
The Network Engineer lead ensures that the client’s computer network performance meets user needs and expectations. The Network Engineer lead performs a wide variety of evaluation, maintenance, installation, and training responsibilities to ensure sound infrastructure and application components for the client.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
• Bachelor of Science degree or similar.
• Five plus years of Network Engineer experience
• Previous IT work lead experience.
• Previous IT experience in government is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Network Engineer responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
• Network and Cybersecurity engineering, design and implementation
• Cisco IOS - Routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, PfR, VPC, etc.)
• Cisco Wireless and Wire Environment through 802.1x, and other protocols (MAB) including BYOD, Guests (Web-auth) and Sponsor portals, profiling and posturing.
• Develop high availability, resiliency, contingency and recovery efforts and plans to ensure continuous availability and accessibility of network, security and infrastructure services.
• Reviews plans for accuracy, completeness, and content and ensures compliance with security and best practice requirements.
• Researches and identifies new solutions to automate/streamline the infrastructure and security in order to increase efficiencies
• Works with Information Security and Systems teams to ensure complete collaboration and transparency
• Mentors, teaches and trains junior personnel in network designs and architecture to ensure future requirements are planned for and met
• Determines the solution configuration needed to develop, modify, and implement the network architecture and operations that permit the effective sharing and transmission of information among customers.
• Develops recommendations that anticipate major effects on the IT systems and provide mitigation of adverse impacts.
• Researches and makes recommendations for the most appropriate types of assessment tools to use.
Lead responsibilities:
• Reinforce client's Mission, Vision and Values statements.
• Collect, analyze, provide commentary to the Monthly Agency Metrics
• Engage/represent Infrastructure perspectives/insights in all meetings.
• Ensure Infrastructure team members have adequate and appropriate permissions to perform their duties across all supported agencies.
• Review Infrastructure team members' timesheets by COB Wednesday of time entry (FTE's)
• Review Infrastructure team members' absence requests.
• Review Infrastructure team members' overtime requests.
• Develop succession plans for all roles and responsibilities.
• Continually review team members' current technical skills against the technologies that are planned/being deployed to ensure skillsets are relevant and provide value.
• Provide recommendations for Udemy technical training paths to Infrastructure leadership/HR.
• Must be/remain familiar with the support agencies and physical locations.
• Schedule 1-on-1 meetings with Team Leads and/or team Staff.
• Collect, analyze, provide strategic direction to improve KPIs specific to Teams performance (individuals/teams)
• Forge/strengthen relationships across Infrastructure teams.
• Forge/strengthen relationships across organizations (InfoSec, Applications, PSSEC, etc.)
• Forge/strengthen relationships with identified points-of-contact within supported agencies.
• Participate in the Manager On Duty (MOD) rotation
• Participate in leading the Daily Stand Up Call rotation (daily)
• Provide data points/commentary and provide answers to questions for the Stat meetings (monthly)
• Participate in Weekly Infrastructure Leadership meetings.
• Participate in the Infrastructure all hands leadership rotation.
• Participate in and/or provide resources for EOC activations as needed.
• Participate in On call rotations as appropriate
Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
• Troubleshoots and investigates complex network and security system problems.
• Coordinates the resolution of system problems by identifying issues and meeting with users, managers, and hardware/software vendors to identify solutions.
• Provides expert guidance to management on network and security systems life-cycle including upgrades and potentially complete replacement of existing infrastructure with new technologies.
• Provides expert interpretations of network and security administration regulations and guidance, advises on the purchase and specification of new technologies as well as supporting infrastructure.
• Monitor usage and performance of environments for which responsible.
• Develops and modifies complex network and security systems and develops subsystems to enhance the overall operational environment.
• Utilizing various monitoring tools, perform active monitoring and remediation of rouge intrusions
• Assess and resolve tier 2 and tier 3 operational and performance issues with the networking infrastructure, working with vendor support or other organizations as needed.
Any of the following certification is preferred:
• CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert)
• CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)
• CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)
• CCSA (Check Point Firewall-1 administrator)
• CCSE (Check Point Firewall-1 Engineer)
• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
• AWS or other cloud computing experience desired
• Other duties as assigned.
BALTIMORE CITY RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY!
For Immediate Response call 703-454-2948 or send your resume to RecruiterPS@Trigyn.com
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