Open Systems Technologies Corporation is a leader in the government contracting marketplace, providing Enterprise Security and Cloud Computing solutions to support large organizations. Our capabilities include supplying federal government entities and private businesses with software development, scientific and engineering technical assistance, systems integration, and enterprise security. Since its founding in 1996, OST has been committed to delivering high-quality, best-in-class results that bring added value to our clients while investing in our employees’ futures by providing exciting projects to work on, and robust benefits to include technical training and certifications, relocation assistance and a 401K match with immediate vesting.
We are looking for a Senior Network Administrator/Engineer to join our team providing support to the Department of Justice.
Responsibilities:
- The SNA shall lead moderately complex network projects or phases of a large project.
- The SNA shall coordinate work activities for a small group of technical/professional employees, and manage a moderately large, complex function.
- The SNA shall provide technical guidance and leadership; and determine deliverables and work schedules as appropriate.
- The SNA shall act as the Contractor’s representative to government technical personnel while leading the Contractor’s network requirements analysis activities, as well as the Contractor’s maintenance and/or upgrades to customer network operations.
- The SNA shall be responsible for ensuring the Contractor meets established network deliverable deadlines and performance standards.
Required Qualifications:
- Clearance: Top Secret
- Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and ten (10) years of experience in monitoring, managing, and administering internet protocol (IP) networks in a production environment or, in lieu of education, ten (10) years of experience. If utilizing in lieu of education, all experience must be at or above the position level described below.
- A relevant industry certification, such as CompTIA Network+, Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA), etc.
- Experience leading teams of personnel with Network Administrator skills.
- Proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining physical and virtual networking devices, encryption (experience with Taclanes preferred), Firewall devices and rules, and networking Layer 2 and 3 devices and configurations.
- Expertise in researching, evaluating, testing, recommending, integrating deploying, and installing network equipment and solutions to meet objectives and requirements to include new technologies.
- Ability to confer with and advise management, engineers, senior network administrators, and system administrators on the management, functional capabilities, and enhancement of supported networks.
- Demonstrated ability to develop, test, document, and implement changes to communications networks to ensure efficient operation, interoperability with supported and affiliated tools, systems, and networks, and maximized user experience.
- Development of automated methods to deploy switches and firewalls with consistent results using applicable technologies for various manufacturer products.
- Ability to manage, train, and develop skills of junior network administrators.
- Proven ability to proactively troubleshoot, resolve, and provide technical assistance related to networking issues in support of mission objectives and customer issues and requirements.
- Experience conducting reverse engineering of networks, producing documentation, and the ability to explain results and potential areas of improvement and optimization.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Implementation of network Quality of Service (QoS) policies
- Use of SMB protocols to allow advancement of storage technologies.
- Configuring and validation of RDMA technologies.
- Expertise with Cloud and/or Hybrid Cloud networking integration and sustainment.
BENEFITS
OST has been operating since 1996 and has various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 2 weeks Holiday pay, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end-of-year profit sharing.
#Monster
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, plus 10 years of production IP network monitoring, management, and administration experience; alternatively, 10 years of experience at or above the required position level.
- Top Secret security clearance.
- Relevant industry certification such as CompTIA Network+ or Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA).
- Experience leading personnel with Network Administrator skills.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining physical and virtual networking devices, encryption, firewalls, firewall rules, and Layer 2 and Layer 3 network configurations.
- Experience researching, evaluating, testing, recommending, integrating, deploying, and installing network equipment and solutions.
- Ability to advise management, engineers, senior network administrators, and system administrators on network capabilities and enhancements.
- Ability to develop, test, document, and implement communications network changes.
- Experience developing automated methods to deploy switches and firewalls across manufacturer products.
- Ability to manage, train, and develop junior network administrators.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve networking issues and provide technical assistance.
- Experience reverse engineering networks, producing documentation, and identifying improvement and optimization opportunities.
- Experience implementing network Quality of Service policies.
- Experience using SMB protocols for storage technology advancement.
- Experience configuring and validating RDMA technologies.
- Expertise with cloud or hybrid cloud networking integration and sustainment.
What We Do
Open Systems Technologies Corporation is a technology solutions provider serving large enterprises and government entities. Founded in 1996, it delivers customized software development, technical assistance, systems integration, and enterprise security services. Its capabilities include cloud computing and virtualization, identity and access management, intrusion detection and monitoring, application performance monitoring, and other solutions that protect software assets and information-technology infrastructure across complex operational environments.
