Network Administrator // MD Bethesda // W2 role

Network Administrator

RQ224724

Bethesda MD

As a Wireless Network Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Wireless Network Engineers joining our team to ensure that the NIH network wireless infrastructure has widespread coverage and is resilient, secure and operational for the NIH community to progress their science and research and continue their mission critical work.

• 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 wireless infrastructure and following of evolving technologies and changing industry standards to develop solutions for 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

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree (or high school diploma accompanied with relevant experience and professional certification
• CCNA/ CCNP
• Minimum three (3) years of wireless network administration experience including performing extensive site surveys, creating and reviewing wireless designs, managing wireless projects in an enterprise environment
• Experience using Ekahau, Cisco Insider, wireless survey tools
• Have a solid working knowledge of wireless network infrastructure, signal propagation, advanced troubleshooting wireless interference, optimizing coverage, spectrum analysis, etc…
• Have solid understanding and comprehension of network protocols and switching, TCP/IP, FTP/HTTP(S), UDP, STP, VPN, etc… and able to provide technical root cause analysis or requirements summaries to the team and management using fundamental network terminologies
• Have a solid working knowledge for advanced troubleshooting of network device gear such as CISCO routers, switches, wireless access points, uninterruptible power supplies, firewalls, etc…
• Activate and configure CISCO switches, routers, NICs, LAN ports, etc… and diagnose configuration issues using command line and prompts on the switch and or endpoint device Use industry standard wireless network tools to perform wireless surveys, create designs, produce analysis reporting, etc…

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Wireless Infrastructure / 802.1x and performing site surveys
• Experience with Monitoring Tools (i.e Sitescope/Solarwinds/Sciencelogic) Experience with ServiceNow or Remedy Experience with Infoblox