Network Technician Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Must have DoD-8570 IAT Level 2 baseline certification (Security+ CE, or equivalent) at start date.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 operation.
• Experience with one or more of the following: alarm surveillance, fault management, LAN maintenance, performance management.
• Expertise in two or more of the following: routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, CISCO, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, Optical Switching.
• General understanding of network topologies, both transport and IP.
• Currently possess an active Secret security clearance and be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.
• High school and 1-3 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Create and update tickets utilizing Remedy.
• Monitor network events and element management failures in real-time on a 24x7x365 basis.
• Proactively analyze alarms.
• Provide detailed analyses leading to resolution of the alarm conditions, including filtering and correlating fault information.
• Identifying the fault condition and its impacts.
• Isolating root causes.
• Coordinating correction of fault situations regardless of the fault in the infrastructure.
• Notify necessary points of contacts based on essential or heightened awareness networks, circuits or location incidents.
• Support the fault isolation process.
• Diagnoses and troubleshoot utilizing procedures to isolate where the fault occurs.
• Identify failed network element(s) i.e. systems, hardware, software, circuits, or facilities.
• Activities include: testing, fault troubleshooting, fault localization, fault logging and assignment.
• Support all customers to include providing global situational awareness support.
• Correct/replace faulty network elements, coordinating with other service providers as necessary.
• Verify that service has been restored upon resolution of all customer-initiated tickets.
• Restore networks and service to full operation.
• Coordinate with other service providers as necessary to track service restoration and meet the DISN SLA and customer negotiated SLAs.
• Identify failures that are attributable to a different causes and impacts.
• Provide updates on outages from technicians and/or government incident tickets until a resolution or path to resolution is identified and documented in ticket.
• Provide 24/7/365 sustainment support for outages, degradation of services and Tier 1/Tier 2 support.
• Provide timely situational awareness to leadership and the impacted community within discovery and ticket creation using approved communication methods as outlined.
• Record, assess, track, and monitor incident tickets escalated to operational infrastructure.
• Demonstrate general knowledge of training, standard operating procedures, and tools within O&M.
• Effectively communicates with the O&M team and the customer.
• Works directly with Shift lead and O&M leadership for guidance.
• Demonstrate proficiency in functions within the DISN: routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, CISCO, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, Optical Switching, etc.

Benefits

• competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement