Network Administrator

TEKsystems•Bethesda, OH

17d•$30 - $40•Onsite

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Network Administrator supporting the network infrastructure for LAN/WAN services at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on behalf of the Center for Information Technology (CIT). Our client is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At our client, people are our differentiator. As a Network Administrator you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Network Administrators joining our team to ensure that the NIH network infrastructure remains resilient, secure and operational for the NIH community to progress their science and research and continue their mission critical work.

Requirements

Active CCNA or CCNP
Experience with configuring/activating network interfaces, ports and protocols, VLAN, cabling, routers and switches, and patching.
Bachelor’s Degree (or high school diploma accompanied with relevant experience and professional certification)
CCNA or CCNP professional certification required
Minimum 3 year of network administrator experience
Have solid understanding and comprehension of network protocols and switching, TCP/IP, FTP/HTTP, UDP, VPN, etc… and able to decipher network topologies
Advanced troubleshooting of network device gear such as routers, switches, wireless access points, uninterruptible power supplies, firewalls, etc…
US Citizenship

Nice To Haves

Experience with Monitoring Tools (i.e Sitescope/Solarwinds/Sciencelogic)
Experience with ServiceNow or Remedy
Experience with Infoblox

Responsibilities

Leverage in-person and virtual connections to coordinate work actions to take the burden of IT off our customers so they can focus on the science
Contribute your knowledge and experience to the collective pool at NIH and helping other IT pros at the institute level work better for their community
Working together with the CIT federal team and other service areas as ONE CIT to serve NIH
Helping ensure the network infrastructure and the associated internet and intranet services are available to scientists, researchers, patients, etc… with maximum uptime by responding quickly and thoroughly to incidents, requests, and sudden outages
Utilizing your experience of networking and evolving technologies to develop solutions in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and ever-changing enterprise federal environment that needs to remain compliant and secure but also not holding back scientific discovery and progress
Actual configuration and changing of switches, routers, ports (NOT just monitoring)
Activating ports
Configuring interfaces on switches
Deployments of switches, ports, routers, etc.
In person troubleshooting of ports, switches, routers
Activating and configuring switches, routers, NICs, LAN ports, etc.
Create network and closet diagrams
Use network tools to diagnose, trace and or validate activity on LAN ports, network gear and or endpoints and be able to read and decipher logs and traffic
Able to lift up to 50lbs to rack and stack network gear
Have reliable means of transportation to respond to on-call emergencies within the DC-MD-VA area within defined response times
Be meticulous in documentation showing work performed so that it may be reviewed, recreated or presented to management
Be organized with their workspace
Be able to work in a team setting or with other IT pros effectively in-person or virtually for root cause analysis