Principal Network Engineer
- Employer
- USAJobs
- Location
- Washington, D.C
- Closing date
- Jan 25, 2022
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- Industry
- Government and Public Services, Federal
- Function
- School and Teaching, Systems Administrator, IT, Principal
- Hours
- Full Time
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
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Duties
Work involves acting as a technical liaison for special consultations and projects, and actively participating on joint task force assignments. In addition to serving as a lead on new projects, incumbents also provide engineering and escalation support for existing data network systems and services within the campus and wide-area network. The position is also responsible for providing escalation support to the Network Operations Center for troubleshooting local LAN and campus LAN problems.
Major Duties
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:
Education
Please read the "Qualifications" section.
Work involves acting as a technical liaison for special consultations and projects, and actively participating on joint task force assignments. In addition to serving as a lead on new projects, incumbents also provide engineering and escalation support for existing data network systems and services within the campus and wide-area network. The position is also responsible for providing escalation support to the Network Operations Center for troubleshooting local LAN and campus LAN problems.
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.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
.
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.
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