Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Ashburn, VA

Pay From: $120,000 per year

• 8+ years of overall systems and networking experience
• 4+ solid years of network engineering experience
• Experience providing Network support at a high level is required
• Well-rounded and broad understanding of network layouts, network mapping and network tools for various size offices
• Experience with Palo Alto and Cisco firewall setup and administration
• Experience working in NOC environment is preferred
• Experience with Fortinet firewall setup and administration is a plus
• VPN setup and administration
• Dell & Cisco Switch Setup and Administration
• Solar Winds, PRTG, or Logic Monitor Knowledge
• Experience with various systems tools to include:
  QoS, MPLS, VPLS, VLANS, Radius, BGP, OSPF, and TAGGING
• Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal skills to work with both piers and higher and lower-level members of the team
• Able to provide high level customer service to clients
• Highly analytical with strong attention to detail
• Current CCNP certification (other relevant Networking certs may be considered)

• The ideal candidate will be one of the Leads supporting the Tier I and Tier II internal systems teams overseeing client systems and network providing maintenance, administration, configuration, troubleshooting and servicing and systems and equipment
• Assessing and prioritizing tasks, projects and demands to ensure customer satisfaction
• Designs, Manages and monitors the operational activities of the data/voice/video network, including design, installation, configuration, maintenance, and security
• Analyzes network functions and evaluates the services provided; develops plan of action and recommendations; identifies milestones and issues to be addressed, and generates reports as required
• Provides technical leadership and assists in managing and supporting pod members, ensuring that support agents close tickets efficiently, enhance their technical knowledge, and adhere to established processes and procedures
• Communicate with clients to ensure that processes and procedures are up-to-date and functioning efficiently, enabling support agents to accurately and effectively complete tickets
• Monitors utilization trends, manages network performance, and assures maximum uptime; performs ongoing analysis, capacity planning, and technical tuning of the network systems to improve performance
• Designs and monitors VMware infrastructure and united communications (UC) systems, DMZ and Networks
• Designs, configures, deploys, and maintains network infrastructure components; troubleshoots network to diagnose system problems; identifies, locates, resolves, and repairs problems; installs and configures software upgrades, file sharing, and domain security protocols
• Computer network domains, technologies, and protocols
• Networked systems access and security guidelines and procedures
• Network performance tuning techniques
• Demonstrable knowledge of routing, switching, firewalls, Unified Collaboration and security technologies
• Current trends and information sources for managing network systems
• Project planning and management principles
• System backup and recovery procedures and techniques

Quadrant is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability.

Healthcare benefits are offered to all eligible employees according to compliance mandated by the Affordable Care Act.