Duties:
- Enhances network administration team accomplishments and competence by planning delivery of solutions; answering technical and procedural questions for less experienced team members; teaching improved processes; mentoring team members.
- Establishes network specifications by conferring with users; analyzing workflow, access, information, and security requirements; designing router administration, including interface configuration and routing protocols.
- Establishes network by evaluating network performance issues including availability, utilization, throughput, goodput, and latency; planning and executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of equipment; defining network policies and procedures; establishing connections and firewalls.
- Maintains network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems; escalating problems to vendor.
- Secures network by developing network access, monitoring, control, and evaluation; maintaining documentation.
- Prepares users by designing and conducting training programs; providing references and support.
- Upgrades network by conferring with vendors; developing, testing, evaluating, and installing enhancements.
- Meets financial requirements by submitting information for budgets; monitoring expenses.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
- Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
- Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Skills Require:
- A can-do/do-whatever-it-takes attitude
- System administration
- Network design and implementation
- Load balancing and scalability
- Network maintenance
- Network performance tuning
- Network troubleshooting – The ability to determine HW vs. SW, HW vs. firmware, SW vs. OS, network vs. application/systems and patterned vs. non-repeatable problems.
- Adaptability – Ability to learn new software systems rapidly and become the application expert
- Listening
- Internal communications
- Informing others
- Ability to lift, cary and move all components of workstations, servers, network equipment, peripherals and other ancillary equipment.
- Ability to travel 10-20% of the time
Technologies Required:
- Knowledge of implementing and administrating common TCP/IP-based services, including DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SSH, SMTP.
- Wireless Networking
- HP and Dell servers and administration/management tools
- Cisco and WatchGuard firewalls
- Cisco switches
- Cisco VPN
- Windows Server 2003/2008
- Windows 7
- MSSQL
- VMWare VSphere
- Apple OSX (not required, but knowledge a plus)