Hi ,
Greeting from IT Engagements.
We IT Engagements is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide-range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. We have an immediate opening for the below position with one of our premium clients.
Title: Network Engineer (hybrid)
Location: Washington, DC
Estimated Duration: 12 months with possible extension (s)
Job ID: 3185
Support the implementation of core network/computing components and document critical design and configuration details to support enterprise Infrastructure initiatives. The Network Infrastructure Engineer will be primarily responsible for utilizing technical skills to coordinate enhancements and deployment efforts and to provide insight and recommendations for implementing business customer solutions. The engineer will work closely with other Infrastructure teams, project managers, other System Admins, and functions.
Responsibilities Include
- Identify hardware, software, and external service cost estimates and resource requirements.
- Inform stakeholders of the strategy for deployment of new implementations, as well as the maintenance and upgrades of existing equipment.
- Ensure compliance with incidents, problem, and change management procedures and execute ticket-based requests with little or no additional help.
- Participate and manage technical project review meetings to ensure technical designs meet the DC Water’s operational requirements and infrastructure/security standards.
- Work with the Infrastructure Services Team to develop and operate a technology roadmap based on established priorities to meet strategic engineering goals, such as Enterprise Architecture, Quality Assurance, Performance, Operations and Support.
- Improve infrastructure operations through better use of monitoring, Configuration, and scripting best practices.
- Deliver fully functioning network services with secure access points across all premises, cloud service environments.
- Identify on-premises technologies and their cloud counterparts and automate infrastructure migration to cloud environments.
- Perform network engineering tasks relating to perimeter security, encryption, micro-segmentation, firewall configuration, connectivity, and protocols.
- Manage and develop technical artifacts, such as an Implementation Plan, System Administration Guide, Operational Turnover Plan, System Security Plan, etc.
- Understand software development and Agile best practices as it relates to work coordination, acceptance criteria, and deployment management.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years of technology consulting or other relevant industry experience
- Prior professional experience in IT Strategy, IT Business Management, Cloud & Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering
- Experience working independently with minimal supervision and guidance.
- Focus on results and be delivery oriented, with a keen interest on quality and the ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with experience exercising mature judgment.
- Ability to write clearly, succinctly, and in a manner, that appeals to a wide audience.
- Compute: Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Consolidation, Tiered and Virtualized Storage, Automated Provisioning, Rationalization, Infrastructure Cost Reduction, thin Provisioning
- Experience with Operating systems and Software: Upgrade Planning and Implementation, Clustering and Grid Computing.
- Experience with Virtualization: Virtualization Server, Storage, Desktop, Network; Reducing Sprawl; Advisory on Migration Disposition/Type (Re-host, Re-platform, Refactor, etc.)
- Experience with Infrastructure-Based Processes: Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Facilities Management, Performance Tuning, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Data Center support.
Preferred
Experience with Servers, Infrastructure, Firewalls, Platform Sizing, Infrastructure Cost Reduction
Possess one of the following additional certifications for the design/development of distributed solutions on a leading infrastructure platform is optional:
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or equivalent industry certification
- Network + certification
- Microsoft Azure certifications
- VMWare Certifications (Data Center Virtualization, Cloud Management and Automation, Network Virtualization)
- AWS – Solutions certifications
- Experience with legacy system engineering assessments, discovering the build and details surrounding the system towards transitioning into a new hosted environment - developing detailed technical migration plan documents illustrating the future state architecture of the system in its new environment, supporting the functionality of the system and meeting all required specifications for security, performance, and otherwise as indicated by the business customer.
Thanks and Regards
Divya kumari
Technical Recruiter
divya(at)itengagements(dot)com
