Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alpha Omega is seeking a Network Administrator to support Operations and Maintenance of a NOAA Administrative LAN. In this role, you will manage and monitor a distributed wide area network, as well as daily network monitoring with Ops Manager.
Responsibilities
- Participate in designing high available networks in active/active mode, configure and manage BGP routing networks
- Network monitoring using SSH and SNMP to monitor devices, their services and create alerts and notifications
- Maintain network documentation and schematics
- Install, configure and manage Fortinet Firewalls, Cisco/Arista Switches, Citrix NetScaler’s, VPN Tunnels, Remote Access VPN, Site to Site VPNs
- Experience with AWS Networking
- Respond to customer support requests through tickets (act as point of escalation from Tier 2)
- Work directly with the Configuration Change Board (CCB) and federal customers
- Plan and execute regular network maintenance, upgrades and patching to ensure resilience, stability and compliance
- Ensure timely communications across the program that include daily oral and written statuses
- Racking and Stacking including cable management
Skills
- Four (4) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment providing systems support and integration efforts across a mixed platform
- Knowledge with IPv4, IPv6, TCP, SSL, OSI network model
- Knowledge of DNS, concepts of network Load Balancing
- Prior experience with computer cables, racks, rack PDU's, fiber optics, optical transceivers, and patch panels
- Strong documentation skills (Excel and Visio diagrams)
- Strong and effective verbal and communications skills
- Exceptional organizational skills
- CCNA
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Management or Engineering, or other comparable degree
- Experience with IPv6 including hands on configuration and IPv6 network design concepts
- Experience with Data Centers
- AWS
Benefits
- 15 days PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
- Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year)
- Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
- Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
- 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service
- FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans
- Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit
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