TIER III O&M NETWORK ENGINEER
to Serve the Telecommunications Industry
Active Top Secret/SCI with Poly Clearance Required
Job #A927286
Innova Solutions is currently seeking a Tier III Operations & Maintenance
Engineer with an Active Top Secret/SCI with Poly Clearance to serve an
American multinational telecommunications holding company.
Position type: Full-time W2 (No C2C - No VISA sponsorship candidates)
Duration: 6 months with likely extension
Location: Onsite in Aurora, Colorado
Pay Range: $55-65/hour including PTO
KEY 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 components
- 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, data base
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. Thes
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 application
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:
Candidate must have 10 years of experience that can be a combination of work
history and education. This equates to:
Doctorate and 3 years of experience
- OR, master's and 4 years
- OR, bachelor's and 6 years
- OR, associate's and 8 years
OR, high school and 10+ years.
Experience with network protocols such as Open Shortest Path First
(OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Multiprotocol Label
Switching (MPLS), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Virtual Routing
and Forwarding (VRF) and experience with troubleshooting and
implementation of associated configurations with these protocols
- Layer 3 Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model experience is a must