Complete Description:
The Network Operations Center seeks a Senior Engineer . This position will report to the DCNOC Director or designee for assignment of duties and tasks. The purpose of the position is to provide an expert level of technical operational support, administration and monitoring services to District government agencies. In order to provide proactive monitoring of the Districts' enterprise infrastructure, the District requires skilled IT personnel. This technical resource position plays a key role in maintaining the continued Enterprise Network Operational Center support for mission critical district services
hosted within the OCTO datacenters. The individual will be required to work on the days of the week designated by the Director, or designee. The individual will be required to work a total of 80 hours over a two week period. Shift schedules can be rotated or changed to meet the operational needs of the department, and to also ensure adequate coverage. The individual shall respond to and fix high level problems during his/her assigned shift, and will be required to work on any holiday including Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day. The individual will be expected to be able to work
extended hours on an emergency preparedness situation that may occur on their shift. The individual shall be the primary Tier III escalation technician for major events and outages on those systems. They will contact designated individuals responsible for supporting those systems, escalate as necessary, and report on the progress of restoration. She/he shall perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for all related major incidents when requested by OCTO, and perform periodic (hourly, per shift, daily) functional and performance testing of existing production systems as required. This position also requires that the Sr. Network Operations Center Engineer perform architecture and capacity management of the network to include the installation, configuration, testing, maintenance and de-installation of network infrastructure hardware and software as necessary to support increased or decreased network requirements.
Roles and responsibilities
• Expert experience in analysis, design, configuration and implementation of routers, switches and firewalls in network and security layer models. • Expert experience in requirements gathering related to implementation of technology solutions across enterprise and service provider networks.
• Provide hands-on analysis and quality assurance for the DCNET network engineering team, leveraging industry expertise and understanding of large service provider design and deployments of complex technology solutions.
• Expert in Large Scale Design/Implementation experience with Cisco ASR and Nexus platforms in a Service Provider environment supporting network data and voice subscriber services
Skills:
Skills
Required yrs of Exp
Total Exp you have
Last Used
Expertise
Hands on experience with Wide Area Network design, implementation and management
Required 10 Years
3 – Expert
Expert level hands on experience with BGP, MPLS, OSPF, LDP, RSVP and HSRP
Required 10 Years
3 – Expert
Hands on experience with VLAN configuration, spanning tree, configuring a high availability switched environment.
Required 10 Years
3 – Expert
Hands on experience with expert level know ledge in Optical, Wireless, Voice technologies
Required 10 Years
3 – Expert
Valid CCIE written (must provide proof), JNCIS
(must provide proof)
Required 10 Years
3 – Expert
Hands on experience with Layer 2 & 3 tunneling technologies, Quality of Service (QOS) design
Required 10 Years
3 – Expert
Hands on experience implementing IP networks over a variety of transmission mediums to include high-band width fiber optics and low –band width
Required 10 Years
3 – Expert
Experience with Cisco ACS – Device Authentication
Required 10 Years
3 – Expert
Experience with HP OpenView , Netscout Sniffers and SolarWinds
Required 5 Years
3 – Expert
A high level understanding of Wireless technologies and implementation
Required 5 Years
3 – Expert
A high level understanding of VOIP Technologies
Required 5 Years
2 – Proficient
Knowledge of Firewalls
Required 5 Years
2 – Proficient
Know ledge of Intrusion Detection devices
Required 5 Years
2 – Proficient
Know ledge of LTM and GTM technologies
Required 5 Years
2 – Proficient
Experience with designing and implementation of IP/MPLS protocol switching in an ISP Core Network
Required 10 Years
3 – Expert
Questions:
Question 1
All skills and relevant experience must be current. Interviewed candidates must take and pass a practical lab to verify skill level. Please acknowledge.
Question 2
The core shift hours will be from 08:30AM to 5:00PM. The candidate may be needed to support special projects/events when they arise. Please acknowledge.
Question 3
A laptop and PDA must be provided for the candidate, if engaged. Please acknowledge.