What are the responsibilities and job description for the Network Engineer position at Comrise?
Contract - 12 months
Payrate : 45.00 / hr
Position Goal :
- This position is responsible for enterprise data networking designs, services, and support. The position assists infrastructure team members in the support, maintenance, and optimization of core network infrastructure and telecommunications systems. Also responsible for Tier 2 networking support to campus IT operations. These responsibilities will require the candidate to be a Subject Matter Expert across network technologies, services, and additional related components.
- This position will interact daily with technology departments, customer support, vendors, IT administration and security personnel, as well as the end users on developing network solutions to meet company business requirements. Project management and problem management skills are required to effectively meet company College business objectives and Service Level Agreements.
Position Responsibilities :
1. Implement standards for new campus designs and equipment builds
2. Complex WAN / LAN designs utilizing best practice switching / routing technologies and topologies.
3. Planning and integration of new technologies within a large network environment.
4. Network impact analysis, modeling, network capacity planning
5. Engineering consultations of Level III network troubleshooting / problem resolutions, protocol analysis, network troubleshooting / problem determination skills with network trace / capture / analysis software
6. Understanding of end-to-end data flows and traffic patterns.
7. Software / hardware device upgrades, LAN equipment configurations / provisioning
8. IP addressing, variable length subnet masking, and Quality of Service
9. Wide Area Network technology provisioning and configuration (i.e. MPLS, SDWAN, SIP) and WAN equipment configurations for bandwidth rates from DSL to OC9.
10. Networking services for ACS, AAA, DHCP, DNS, ICMP and SNMP
11. Design and Support for network security technologies and products
12. Remote access technologies (i.e. VPN, SSL-VPN, IPSec, B2B)
13. Training / Mentoring other IT&S staff members
14. Problem management skills
15. Change management and project management principles
16. Occasional travel to support network construction, analysis, and network upgrades
Education : Bachelor’s degree in computing or information technology (networking emphasis or concentration) or equivalent combination of IT education, training, and experience. Cisco CCNP and Microsoft certification(s) a plus.
Experience : Minimum five years of experience and increasing responsibility managing and administering network infrastructure and services
Special Qualifications : All aspects of Cisco equipment and the Cisco; IOS, Microsoft Office, Visio or LucidCharts, and MS Project; Good prioritization and risk management skills
