Senior Network Engineer Job Listing at IMRG in College Park, MD

Staffing/Employment

Excellent opportunity for a Senior Network Engineer to work on a 6-month temporary project with our client in the Adelphi, Maryland area.

Required Licenses or Certifications:
- Cisco CCNP certification is required; Cisco CCIE (Routing & Switching) certification is strongly preferred.

Basic Functions:
Design, troubleshoot, and analyze LAN/WAN and VoIP infrastructures with specific emphasis related to network integration and architectural designs.

Essential Duties:
1. Network engineering designs, architecture and integration (35%)
-Provide network designs for our Data Center?s located in Adelphi, Largo, Europe and Asia, to ensure network systems are consistently available to support our Learning Management System (LMS), PeopleSoft, Goldmine and future cloud based solutions; provide scalable design methodologies for UMUC?s Cybersecurity Virtual Lab program, to align it with student growth and server-based capacity adjustments; provide integration strategies for new Nexus 10-gigabit Ethernet Core and Distribution systems for our Data Center and Campus backbone networks

2. Evaluate new and emerging technologies (20%)
-Evaluate and test next generation network systems and hardware by vendors in a test lab environment prior to integration into production network; work with other IT units on proposed technologies and develop systematic processes between the various groups to ensure that any proposed systems are compatible with network architecture and integration techniques

3. Provide daily operational support (20%)
-Coordinate upgrades and changes with business entities and other IT infrastructure groups; open work tickets and provide migrations and/or installations as the business requires; gathering and/or coordinate resources from other IT Units when necessary to complete project deadlines; review project specifications and make design/implementation recommendations for improvements; follow through on assigned project tasks and consultations/conference calls; monitor the incident queue and take ownership of issues needing resolution.

4. Local and Wide Area Network troubleshooting and architecture (15%)
Design and configure new MPLS - Private IP network to support improved performance between Adelphi and our overseas networks located in Heidelberg, Germany and Tokyo, Japan; proactively identify performance related problems to allow for a strategized MTTR methodology before network problems manifest

Other duties as assigned (10%)