Network Technician

Job Description:
One of our top Gov/Federal client is supporting a Space agency & is responsible for all telecommunications, cloud, data center, and network services across all centers and facilities in the U.S.! The Network Technician role will have the opportunity to make massive impacts for their Network Services team, with a focus in Network Automation, including enhancements and modernizations to current infrastructure solutions that is critical for groundbreaking initiatives. Come join a mission focused team that provides both growth and longevity to your career!

U.S. Citizen required + active PUBLIC TRUST clearance or higher highly preferred . 5 DAYS ONSITE A WEEK IN MERRITT ISLAND, FL

Requirements:
• 6+ years of Cisco Network Engineering/Technician experience including hands-on switches, routers (wired & wireless)
• Extensive experience implementing integrated networks – hardware installations and equipment support
• Strong hands-on experience with TCP/IP, ARP, DHCP, & DNS protocols
• Must be able to obtain Public Trust– federal background check including fingerprinting
• Exposure working for a Government/Federal agency or environment

Nice to have:
• Cisco Catalyst support
• Active CCNA, CCNP, CCNIE certification
• Extensive government/federal agency experience

Responsibilities:
• Work directly and indirectly with NASA customers, Technicians, Network Engineers, and/or Network Architects to execute network design changes or modifications to NASA infrastructure, as well as identify, analyze, and resolve issues for customer impacting events that maybe escalated
• Engage in decision making regarding appropriate network changes to maintain configuration control and minimize configuration size using knowledge of network sub-netting and best practices per industry standards
• Use Standard Operating Procedure’s (SOP), Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP), and Work Instruction’s (WI) to complete Change task via Command Line Interface (CLI) on device
• Perform service validation to assess if deployed changes have caused impacts to customer traffic using provided expectations of traffic behavior, lessons learned, and customer reporting
• Use network decision making skills for configurations such as detailed step by step instructions within the network switch operating system for new network devices that are replacing legacy network equipment that needs to be refreshed or replaced from time to time as a part of your design
• Provide assessment and design recommendations to resolve certain network device security vulnerabilities
Provide wireless local area network (WLAN) device analysis and new access point designs to support expansion or reduce constraints as a measure to increase network capacity and/or bandwidth