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Principal Network Engineer (Unified Communications/Voice)

Employer
USAJobs
Location
Washington, D.C
Closing date
May 25, 2021
Duties

Summary

This is advanced professional work to plan, analyze, design, test, evaluate, install, troubleshoot, and maintain the integrity of an enterprise Cisco Unified Communications (UC) system.
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Responsibilities

Work involves acting as a technical liaison for special consultations and projects. In addition to serving as a lead on new projects, incumbents also provide engineering and escalation support for existing UC systems within the campus and wide-area network. The position is also responsible for providing escalation support to the Network Operations Center for troubleshooting UC related problems. See addendum on last page for specific requirements.

Major Duties
  • Provides long-range strategic planning for new and innovative networking technologies, including research and development of alternative architectures, new infrastructure framework, and engineering strategy; monitors the impact of technological developments.
  • Leads advanced technical project teams and contractors, with engineering emphasis on routing/switching, system build-outs, and systems security and reliability; plans, assigns, directs and coordinates work efforts; develops project plans, timetables and staff requirements.
  • Formulates and defines next generation infrastructure for the Senate's data networks, in support of the applications and security systems that support the Senate's business mission, information technology functions and services.
  • Researches advanced and leading edge technologies as they pertain to strategic planning and implementation of the Senate's advanced network; makes recommendations to senior management.
  • Provides escalation support to senior and non-senior level operations and engineering staff in troubleshooting network-related issues.
  • Develops criteria and oversees design and development of prototypical lab environments for the purpose of providing testing and training platforms of new networking technologies by engineering and operations staff.
  • Reviews and evaluates performance data to ensure sufficient network resources are available in support of current requirements; develops strategies for identifying and increasing resources when necessary.
  • Represents the department at user group, task force and steering committee meetings and pilot testing.


Travel Required

Not required

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
00 - Yes.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment


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Qualifications

Work requires a Bachelor's Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications or a related field; and eight to ten years of data communications and network system experience; or any equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the following knowledge, abilities and skills:
  • In-depth knowledge of network technologies and protocols, primarily TCP/IP and IP-based network communications.
  • Extensive experience with routing and switching technology.
  • Experience with network-based security services and configurations.
  • Knowledge of technology industry trends and emerging technologies.
  • Knowledge of project life cycle methodologies.
  • Ability to oversee, monitor, and maintain network operations, including high-availability and resilient network architectures.
  • Ability to evaluate and make recommendations on different network-related applications software packages.
  • Ability to manage studies, special projects and assignments with long-range impacts.
  • Ability to plan, direct, assign, supervise and evaluate project teams and task forces.
  • Ability to communicate effectively.


Education

Please read the "Qualifications" section.

Additional information

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Please read the "Next steps" section for more information.

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Not Required

Drug test required
No

Required Documents

All required documents will be outlined in the application instructions.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

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