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Location : Warwick, RI 02886 (Onsite job)
Duration : 2 years contract
MGT is a national leader in public sector management consulting and services that delivers diverse business consulting services to a wide range of public sector groups. Celebrating its 50th year in 2024, the firm attracts exceptional talent and empowers them to exceed client expectations as they navigate the dynamic demands of public agency performance. Our mission is to impact communities for good.
Summary :
The Senior Network Engineer is an expert level position responsible for the design, implementation, and support of Rhode Island Airport Corporation's data / voice networks as a member of the IT Operations team. The successful candidate must possess high-level skills across a wide range of LAN / WAN / Wireless network systems and devices that support data centers and corporate facilities distributed among a geographically dispersed area. Candidates must also have a strong knowledge of Windows and VMware. This position is a hands-on and a 2nd level escalation point for operations and will be responsible for troubleshooting P1 issues. This position requires 10 years of previous Network Administration / Engineering experience.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
- Responsible for design, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of a large, complex regional enterprise network including physical cabling, switches, firewalls, security devices and wireless infrastructure.
- Installation, termination, repair, testing and maintenance of Ethernet and fiber optic cabling following company standards.
- Performs troubleshooting on the network and servers to determine root cause, analyze alternative solutions and implement the best course of action.
- Develop, monitor, analyze and report on logs, network downtime, network usage trends, network metrics, security and network related alerts.
- Experience with VMware virtualization and associated network configurations.
- Provide system administration to install, maintain, and troubleshoot network applications, software, network monitoring tools, network management servers, and network appliances.
- Installation of system patches, and upgrades to network / security components regularly.
- Assist in the implementation of policies, procedures and guidelines to ensure proper and secure operation of the LAN / WAN / WLAN environment.
- Monitor the 24x7 environment for faults, capacity and security and take corrective action as needed.
- Perform system backups for the various networking components and ensure that all backups are maintained properly in-house and off-site based on our backup policies.
- Continuously update all infrastructure documentation.
- Participate regularly in rotational weekend and off-hours on-call support.
- Cross-train IT staff for emergency level one support of other IT support areas (Storage, Cloud Services, Operating Systems, Email, Networking, VLANs, etc.) and provide support to all aspects of IT when the primary technicians are not available.
- Follow established change control and security practices, processes, and procedures.
- Maintain good working relationships with users, department managers, vendors and other IT professionals to continuously improve the ability of the department to meet its mission.
- Ability to work off-hours to perform system upgrades during maintenance windows.
- Participate in special projects as appropriate.
- Any and all other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities : N / A
Qualifications :
Education / Experience :
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MGT is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Business Consulting and Services
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