Network Administrator Lead
Ashburn, VA

Job Description

Job Description

Description

Join SAIC's team delivering the best in class Service Desk, End User Services, Operations Engineering, Infrastructure Architecture, and Technical Program Management information technology services to a federal agency.

Job Description

The Network/ Data Center lead may design, analyze, plan, modify, and maintain networks and network components supporting data, voice and/or audio communication activities. Prepares the analysis of short/long term capacity needs for switching, routing transmission and signaling. May evaluate new technology. Duties may include providing specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture; providing information for hardware and software selection; and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. Conducts testing of network systems. Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, switchers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc. Evaluates and reports on new network technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.

Support the installation, implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of agency wide-area networks (WANs) and local-area networks (LANs). Assist in designing and managing the WAN infrastructure and any processes related to the WAN. Provide Production Support of the Network, including: day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution client Networks. Provide second level problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems. Support the dispatch of circuit and hardware vendors involved in the resolution process. Support the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers. A working knowledge is desirable in various software systems and architectures, communications protocols: and network hardware devices.

Roles and Responsibilities

* Point of Contact (POC) for all intra- and inter- site traffic, including isolation, virtual tunnels, remote access, quality of service, Wifi, network access control, failover services.

Qualifications

Education

HS and nine (9) years or more experience; Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience.

Required

* Minimum of two (2) years' Project Management experience.
* Minimum of two (2) years' Network/Data Center technical experience.

Knowledge of at least two of the following; Cisco, SolarWinds, Splunk, Equinix Cloud Exchange, Palo Alto Global Protect, Microsoft RAS, VMware NSX, Cisco, MPLS, BGP, Cisco ISE

US Citizenship required

Desired

* 3 years of ServiceNow Experience
* ITIL Foundation certification
* Work location can be Sunnyvale CA, Ashburn VA or remote

Overview

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability