Network Administrator

Company: ALTA IT Services
Location: Gainesville
Posted on: May 9, 2025

Job Description:

ALTA IT has a Direct Hire position open for a Network Administrator. If you or anyone you know is interested in learning more, please send your updated resume to slandis@altaits.com. Looking forward to working with you!

If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.
Clearance: Top Secret and willing to sit for CI Poly
Onsite - Quantico, VA

A relevant industry certification, such as COMPTIA Network+, Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA), etc.
Senior Network Administrator supporting a highly capable and diverse team driving technical innovation. In the environment: Arista, Netgear switches, Watchguard firewalls. You can learn this... Successful candidate will be strong in critical thinking, has done some design and is a problem solver. Troubleshooting layer 3 level is a big plus.

The SNA shall lead moderately complex network projects or phases of a large project. She/he shall coordinate work activities for a small group of technical/professional employees, or manages a moderately large, complex function. The SNA shall provide technical guidance and leadership; determines deliverable and work schedules. She/he shall act as Offeror's representative to customer technical personnel while leading Offeror's network requirements analysis activities, as well as Offeror's maintenance and/or upgrades to customer network operations. The SNA shall be responsible for ensuring Offeror meets established network deliverable deadlines and performance standards. SNA shall have demonstrated past performance of leading teams of personnel with Network Administrator skills. SNA shall have senior level engineering knowledge in design, documentation and implementation of all Network Administrator skillsets. The SNA shall support the unit with other duties as assigned within the scope of work.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

Minimum Education and Experience:
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, with 6(six) or more years of work experience in monitoring, managing and administering internet protocol (IP) networks in a production environment or, in lieu of education, ten (10) years of experience. If utilizing in lieu of education, all experience must be at or above the position level described above.
SKlLL Level: At a minimum, the Network Administrator, senior level, shall have demonstrated experience in: A relevant industry certification, such as COMPTIA Network+, Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA), etc.
Experience leading teams of personnel with Network Administrator skills
Proficiency designing, building, and maintaining physical and virtual networking devices, encryption (experience with Taclanes preferred), Firewall devices and rules, and networking Layer 2 and 3 devices and configurations
Expertise researching, evaluating, testing, recommending, integrating deploying, and installing network equipment and solutions to meet objectives and requirements to include new technologies.
Ability to confer with and advise management, engineers, senior network administrators, and system administrators on the management, functional capabilities and enhancement of supported networks.
Demonstrated ability to develop, test, document, and implement changes to communications networks to ensure efficient operation, interoperability with supported and affiliated tools, systems and networks, and maximized user experience.
Development of automated methods to deploy switches and firewalls with consistent results using applicable technologies for various manufacturer products.
Ability to manage, train and developing skills of junior network administrators.
Proven ability to proactively troubleshoot, resolve, and provide technical assistance related to networking issues in support of mission objectives and customer issues and requirements.
Experience conducting reverse engineering of networks, producing documentation, and the ability explain results and potential areas of improvement and optimization.
Resolve interoperability problems to maintain connectivity throughout the network
Analyze traffic information and provide analyses to justify network optimization and reconfiguration
Provide technical assistance, training and system documentation for users to promote efficient operation of communication networks
Evaluate and recommend products and services from vendors
Conduct reverse engineering of networks, provide documentation, and explain results.
Must have Top Secret clearance with the ability to sit for a CI Poly.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills Implementation of network Quality of Service (QoS) policies
Use of SMB protocols to allow advancement of storage technologies
Configuring and validation of RDMA technologies
Expertise with Cloud and/or Hybrid Cloud networking integration and sustainment.

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