Working together with the CIT federal team and other service areas as ONE CIT to serve NIH
Helping ensure the network infrastructure and the associated internet and intranet services are available to scientists, researchers, patients, etc… with maximum uptime by responding quickly and thoroughly to incidents, requests, and sudden outages
Utilizing your experience of networking and evolving technologies to develop solutions in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and ever-changing enterprise federal environment that needs to remain compliant and secure but also not holding back scientific discovery and progress
Required Skills
Bachelor’s Degree (or high school diploma accompanied with relevant experience and professional certification)
Minimum three (3) years of network administrator experience
Have solid understanding and comprehension of network protocols and switching, TCP/IP, FTP/HTTP(S), UDP, STP, VPN, etc… and able to provide technical root cause analysis or requirements summaries to the team and management using fundamental network terminologies
Have a solid working knowledge for advanced troubleshooting of network device gear such as CISCO routers, switches, wireless access points, uninterruptible power supplies, firewalls, etc…
Activate and configure CISCO switches, routers, NICs, LAN ports, etc… and diagnose configuration issues using command line and prompts on the switch and or endpoint device
Create network and closet diagrams and able to decipher network topologies
Use network tools to diagnose, trace and or validate activity on LAN ports, network gear and or endpoints and be able to read and decipher logs and traffic
Able to lift up to 50lbs to rack and stack network gear
Have reliable means of transportation to respond to on-call emergencies within the DC-MD-VA area within defined response times
Must be able to obtain an NIH public trust
Desired Skills
Be meticulous in documentation showing work performed so that it may be reviewed, recreated or presented to management
Be organized with their workspace
Be able to work in a team setting or with other IT pros effectively in-person or virtually for root cause analysis
