OverviewEdgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Network System Administrator to support IT program at a major national laboratory.
The telephone, networking, and wired-infrastructure groups (1) provide communication-transport capabilities (2) maintain and operate the telephone-communication systems. These groups also deliver secure, consistent, and capable network infrastructures to ensure faster realization of business value to its customers. The candidate shall provide staffing to complete the following work. The networking team shall provide second-tier and third-tier support of local-area and wide-area networks. The team primarily resolves tickets for daily operations and network troubles, but it also provides network engineers and architects with basic design assistance. The networking team supports both the unclassified and classified arenas across sites, including HSBs. The networking team shall support the following: data-center networking, client and remote virtual private networking, firewalls, wireless networking, encryptors, enterprise gigabit passive optical networking (GPON), synchronous optical network, Optical Transport Network (OTN), and dense wavelength-division multiplexing support, and campus networking. The candidate shall also install and configure network-tool applications and suites that perform monitoring, access control, configuration, provisioning, and orchestration.
Responsibilities- Monitor, maintain, and repair physical and virtual server systems.
- Resolve technical issues affecting hardware, operating systems, or applications.
- Apply operating system or application patches, install or replace hardware, and implement configuration changes to improve or restore system performance.
- Perform system capacity analysis and planning.
- Assist users in accessing and using business systems.
- Develop instructions and procedures for system maintenance, create scripts to automate monitoring and repair tasks, and conduct quality assurance checks.
- Collaborate with customers, subject matter experts, and architects to analyze, evaluate, and optimize systems.
- Contribute to process development and system improvement efforts.
Qualifications- Requires BS in relevant discipline plus a minimum of 2 years, or more, of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties.
- In Lieu of degree 8 years or more of equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
- Ability to obtain & maintain a U.S. Dept. of Energy Clearance
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
Required Skills:
- Complete knowledge of networking principles for conjuring and maintaining the organization of the network
- Proper understanding all types of hardware including routers, switches, wires, and other essential equipment.
- Knowledge of the common operating systems such as Linux, MS OS
- Knowledge of IP addressing and some common networking protocols like IPv4 and IPv6.
- Experience performing any network performance issues such as system crash.
- Self-starter
- Strong advance problem solving skills.
About Us: Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.
It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.
