Network Engineer

Title: Network Engineer C. Advanced # DMS-25/26-261

Client: State of FL

Dept: Florida Department of Management Services (DMS), Division of Telecommunications (DivTel)

Duration: 1 year

Location: 4030 Esplanade Way, Tallahassee, Florida- Onsite            

Interview Type: Either In-Person or Web Cam

Pay rate: $65

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM ET, 40 hours/week

Resume must be reflective of proposed Candidate’s experience, qualifications, and references (3).

• Organization name.
• Contact name, number, and email address.
• Project name and description.
• Project dates.
• Brief description of the project.

General Characteristics

• Assists in the planning, forecasting, implementation, and identification of resource requirements for network systems (including wireless) of moderate complexity.
• Participates in network planning, network architecture design and engineering.
• Integrates and schematically depicts communication architectures, topologies, hardware, software, transmission and signaling links and protocols into complete network configurations.
• Evaluates new products, performs network problem resolution and assists in the development and documentation of technical standards and interface applications.
• Monitors protocol compatibility, performs system tuning and makes recommendations for improvement.
• Providing technical documentation of work performed in standard project team format.
• Developing requirements and specifications for contract procurements.
• Ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved in a timely manner.
• Monitoring and assisting in reporting issues with the network/system for greatest performance.
• Providing timely updates and reports on the network''''s status to relevant stakeholders.
• Providing assistance to ensure the security of deployed applications.
• Monitoring the State Network’s performance.
• Providing assistance in coordinating network maintenance activities.
• Liaison between the business units, technology teams, and support teams.
• Develop relationships with staff and other Department contractors to foster customer ties
• Communicate effectively with staff and other Department contractors at all levels to identify needs and evaluate solutions
• Maintain relationships with other external organizations through professional association links wherever possible.

Dimensions Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.

Experience:

• A minimum of 3 years of IT work experience in infrastructure/network environments performing network engineering (hardware and/or software), design, planning and implementation.

Complexity:

• Intermediate professional level role.
• Works on projects/ systems/issues of medium to high complexity surrounding network planning, configuration and optimization.
• Works on one or more projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project team lead. May coach more junior technical staff.