Wireless Network Engineer

• Leverage in-person and virtual connections to coordinate work actions, reducing the IT burden on NIH customers so they can focus on science.
• Contribute your knowledge and experience to the collective pool at NIH, helping other IT professionals at the institute level work better for their community.
• Collaborate with the CIT federal team and other service areas as ONE CIT to serve NIH.
• Help ensure the network infrastructure, internet, and intranet services are available with maximum uptime by quickly and thoroughly responding to incidents, requests, and outages.
• Utilize your networking expertise and evolving technologies to develop solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative, highly secure, and compliant environment that supports scientific discovery.

• Bachelor’s Degree or high school diploma with relevant experience and professional certification.
• CCNA or CCNP professional certification.
• Minimum three (3) years of wireless network administration experience, including site surveys, wireless design review, and enterprise project management.
• Experience with Ekahau, Cisco Insider, and wireless survey tools.
• Solid working knowledge of wireless network infrastructure, signal propagation, troubleshooting interference, coverage optimization, spectrum analysis, etc.
• Strong understanding of network protocols and switching, TCP/IP, FTP/HTTP(S), UDP, STP, VPN, with the ability to perform root cause analysis and communicate using fundamental network terminologies.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills for network devices such as Cisco routers, switches, wireless access points, UPS, and firewalls.
• Ability to activate and configure Cisco network equipment and diagnose configuration issues via command line.
• Experience creating network diagrams and deciphering topology.
• Proficiency with industry-standard wireless network tools for surveys, design, and reporting.
• Meticulous documentation skills, organized workspace, and effective teamwork or virtual collaboration.
• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership of tasks.

• Wireless Infrastructure / 802.1x and site surveys.
• Monitoring tools (Sitescope, Solarwinds, Sciencelogic).
• ServiceNow or Remedy.
• Infoblox.

Ref: #851-Rockville-S1