JRSS Network Technician

Responsibilities

• Execute network operations to include analysis of customer traffic across the MPLS and JRSS infrastructure.
• Perform real-time customer failover to restore services during scheduled and unscheduled outages and maintenance actions.
• Work directly with supported customers and peers to ensure maximum network availability to minimize or eliminate mission and operational impact.
• Proactively monitor network alarms across platform specific network management tools.
• Perform a variety of change management tasks which include hardware replacement, software configurations, and ASI management.
• Utilize incident management applications to document all aspects of reported outages/degradations, isolations, escalations, and resolutions during the lifecycle of a service impacting network incident.
• Assess and identify resolutions to various network incidents and/or deficiencies leveraging knowledge in one or more of following: routers, switches, routing protocols, MPLS, VPN technologies, IDS/IPS, proxies, packet capture, network taps, load balancing, firewalls, out-of-band management.

Requirements

• A current DoD-8570 IAT Level 2 baseline certification (Security+ CE, or equivalent).
• Expertise in one or more of the following: routers, switches, routing protocols, CISCO, Juniper, MPLS.
• General understanding of network topologies.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 shift work environment.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a High School diploma or equivalent is required.

Skills

• Experience with one or more of the following: alarm surveillance, fault management, LAN maintenance, performance management.
• Expertise in one or more of the following: routers, switches, routing protocols, CISCO, Juniper, MPLS.
• General understanding of network topologies.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 shift work environment.

Benefits

(Due to the nature of the work and contract requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.)

Pay

(Not specified)

Schedule

(Not specified)