OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE NETWORK ENGINEER - TIER III CO
to Serve the Telecommunications Industry
Active Top Secret/SCI with Poly Clearance Required
Job #A967937
Innova Solutions is currently seeking an OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE ENGINEER -
TIER III with an Active Top Secret/SCI with Poly Clearance to serve a
trusted provider of secure, IP enabled, cloud-based, network solutions
and professional services to the Federal Government. This company's National
Security Team supports the intelligence community, providing, operating,
and assuring critical voice, video, and collaboration services for the
full spectrum of operations.
Operations and Maintenance (O&M) engineers will support various customer
Wide Area Networks (WANs) and Local Area Networks (LANs) by providing
network upgrades and configuration support to the architecture team. Duties
include acting as a subject matter expert in WAN and LAN technologies and
vendors, supporting customer's intra- and inter- net and other data
communications systems or segments of networked system, and providing tiered
support for the Network Operations Centers (NOCs).
Position type: Full-time W2 (No C2C - No VISA sponsorship candidates)
Duration: 12 months with likely extension
Location: Onsite in Aurora, CO
Pay Range: $60-65/hour including PTO
NOTE: No vendor calls, please; No C2C
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Potentially supervising other network support and client server specialists
and planning, coordinating, and implementing network security measures
- Participation in evaluation of new network technologies and making
recommendations to the network architecture team regarding the integration of
these technologies into the existing network. Ensuring that plans for hardware
and communications are adequate. Developing and implementing methodologies for
analysis, testing, and support of LAN and WAN networks.
- Diagnosing hardware and software problems, and replacing defective
components
- Supporting operations, maintaining activities, and administering
networks to include hardware, systems software, applications software,
and all configurations.
- Monitoring system and network performance
- Supporting routine network startup and shutdown procedures and maintaining
control records
- Configuring and testing hardware, networking software, and operating
system software
- Preparing technical proposals for presentation to the engineering review
boards for adding new technologies to the network.
- Performing a full range of upgrades in accordance with existing network
architecture
- Reviewing user requests for upgrades or additions to the network to assess
impact on network performance and providing advice and guidance on the most
practical technical approach to meeting user requirements.
- Performing long-term O&M activities to include tier III troubleshooting
and problem resolution.
- Utilizing complex network analysis tools to identify and correct problems in
the network while maintaining logs and records associated with reported
problems or situations.
- Preparing troubleshooting procedures for restoring the network to optimal
performance levels
- Providing fault management for the network and supports performance
management functions.
- Responding, isolating, and resolving network troubles
- Monitoring alarms and alerts to identify network elements causing network
degradation or failure.
- Executing report functions and data input associated with network
management.
- Monitoring the security posture of the network and reporting suspected
violations to designated authorities.
- Coordinating with configuration management and implementation teams.
- Performing operator-level maintenance on components for network management
systems.
- Analyzing network characteristics (e.g., traffic, connect time,
transmission speeds, packet sizes, and throughput), recommending
procurement, removals, and modifications to network compone ts.
- Optimizing network topologies and site configurations. Planning
installations, transitions, and cutovers of network components and
capabilities.
- Coordinating requirements with users and suppliers.
- Organizing and directing network installations on site surveys.
- Assessing and documenting current site network configuration and user
requirements.
- Maintaining operating systems, communications software, database
packages, compilers, assemblers, and utility programs.
- Applying software, hardware, and standards information technology skills
in the analysis, specification, development, integration, and
acquisition of open systems for Information Management (IM) applications.
- Ensuring systems and applications are compliant with standards for open
systems architectures, reference models, and profiles of standards. These
include the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Open
Systems Environment (OSE) reference model, as they apply to the
implementation and specification of IM solutions on the application
platform, across the application program interface (API), and the
external environment/software applications.
Evaluating and recommending Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) applications
and methodologies that can be acquired to provide interoperable, portable,
and scalable information technology solutions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
TS SCI CI Poly