PL- VDOT Senior Network Engineer

VDOT is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer (Sr NE) to implement and provide support to the agency's IT Network infrastructure. The Sr NE performs day-to-day activities related to the support and documentation of VDOT Network infrastructure.

Job Overview :

VDOT is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer (Sr NE) to implement and provide support to the agency's IT Network infrastructure. The Sr NE performs day-to-day activities related to the support, documentation, research, analysis, and implementation of VDOT Network related infrastructure.

Candidate must have in-depth, considerable knowledge and hands-on experience understanding, documenting, and maintaining Network related infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities :

• Considerable knowledge and working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to document, set up, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)
• Be capable of troubleshooting Network related infrastructure.
• Identifies and diagnoses system problems by using line monitors, diagnostic software, test equipment.
• Works closely with agency's IT infrastructure suppliers and stakeholders to gather requirements, specifications, and configurations to assure they are accurate and up to date.
• Responsible for assisting in troubleshooting and resolving network issues impacting application performance and uptime.
• Assist in overseeing the installation, documentation, and upgrades of various agency facility data network infrastructure.
• Will oversee and collaborate with cloud and DevSecOps teams to optimize hybrid connectivity and SDWAN configurations.
• Must have the ability to provide documentation, network architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls when required.
• Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects.
• Must have minimally obtained an industry standard networking certification (example : Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)

Required / Desired Skills

Skill

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Amount of Exp in yrs

Consultant Experience

Consultant Last Used

Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless access points.

Required

Considerable hands-on working experience setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing and troubleshooting routers / switches, and WAPS.

Required

Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.

Required

Considerable direct hands-on experience engineering and design experience in networking industry required.

Required

Industry standard networking certification (example : Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)

Required

In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.

Required

Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards.

Required

Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance.

Required

Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics / metrics collection, and disaster recovery.

Required

Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc.

Required

Experience with networking features and protocols such as : ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, etc

Required

Experience working with SDWAN

Desired

Experience working with network topology related to Cloud

Desired

Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking

Desired

Questions

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Question

Consultant Answer

Question1

Commonwealth of Virginia security policies prohibit the use of offshore IT contractors. Do you attest to the fact that your candidate will physically reside within the US for the duration of the assignment?

Question2

Please list candidate's email address.