Network System Administrator

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.•Albuquerque, NM

About The Position

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Network System Administrator to support an IT program at a major national laboratory. The role supports telephone, networking, and wired-infrastructure groups that provide communication-transport capabilities, operate and maintain telephone-communication systems, and deliver secure, consistent network infrastructure. The networking team provides second- and third-tier support for local-area and wide-area networks, primarily resolving daily operations and network-troubleshooting tickets while also providing basic design assistance to network engineers and architects. Support covers unclassified and classified environments across sites, including HSBs, and includes data-center networking, client and remote VPNs, firewalls, wireless networking, encryptors, enterprise GPON, synchronous optical networks, OTN, DWDM, and campus networking. The candidate also installs and configures network-tool applications and suites for monitoring, access control, configuration, provisioning, and orchestration. Responsibilities also include monitoring and maintaining physical and virtual server systems, resolving technical issues, applying patches, installing or replacing hardware, implementing configuration changes, conducting capacity analysis and planning, assisting users with business systems, developing maintenance procedures and automation scripts, performing quality assurance checks, collaborating on system analysis and optimization, and contributing to process and system improvements.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and at least 2 years of directly related experience, or 8 or more years of an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience in lieu of a degree.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy clearance.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Complete knowledge of networking principles for configuring and maintaining network organization.
Understanding of hardware including routers, switches, wires, and other essential equipment.
Knowledge of common operating systems such as Linux and Microsoft operating systems.
Knowledge of IP addressing and common networking protocols such as IPv4 and IPv6.
Experience addressing network-performance issues, such as system crashes.
Self-starter.
Strong advanced problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

Monitor, maintain, and repair physical and virtual server systems.
Resolve technical issues affecting hardware, operating systems, or applications.
Apply operating-system or application patches, install or replace hardware, and implement configuration changes to improve or restore system performance.
Perform system capacity analysis and planning.
Assist users in accessing and using business systems.
Develop instructions and procedures for system maintenance, create scripts to automate monitoring and repair tasks, and conduct quality assurance checks.
Collaborate with customers, subject matter experts, and architects to analyze, evaluate, and optimize systems.
Contribute to process development and system improvement efforts.
Provide second- and third-tier support for local-area and wide-area networks.
Install and configure network-tool applications and suites for monitoring, access control, configuration, provisioning, and orchestration.
Support networking across unclassified and classified environments and sites, including HSBs.