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AT&T

GNOC Functional Lead - Expert (Government)

Mclean, VA · On-site

$98K - $208K/yr

Acts as the Global Network Operations Center (GNOC) Team Lead responsible for managing approximately 40 personnel supporting a 24x7x365 enterprise network operations mission. * Provides day-to-day ...

Veredus - DC

Network Operations Manager

Arlington, VA

$115K - $140K/yr

Looking for a Technical leader who will be responsible for managing the networks and data center operations. Overseeing 8 total, the Network Ops Manager mus be able to mentor, train, lead/develop.

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Freelance Network Operations Center (NOC) professionals are independent specialists who monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot computer networks for organizations remotely or on a contract basis. They are responsible for ensuring network uptime, responding to incidents, and resolving connectivity or performance issues. Unlike traditional NOC staff, freelancers may work for multiple clients and provide flexible, on-demand support. Their expertise is crucial in maintaining reliable IT infrastructure, especially for companies that rely on continuous network operations.

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Network Administrator - Level 2

CACI International Inc

Reston, VA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 22 days ago

Job description

Job Summary:
CACI International Inc is focused on supporting its intel customer across various operating locations through technical transformation. The Network Administrator will be responsible for enterprise support, conducting network changes, performing equipment upgrades, and resolving network issues while collaborating with the Network Operations Center.
Responsibilities:
• As a Tier 2 Network Administrator, you'll be challenged with enterprise support problems where you will coordinate with the Network Operations Center and other Operational staff to address break fix, configuration update, schedule add moves and changes and technology upgrades and installs for Network routers and switches.
• You are expected as one of experienced Network team members to coordinate ticket acceptance and resolutions.
• You will support the development of technical resolution reports for critical outages in the Network.
• Conduct approved network changes to include but not limited to VLan, ACL and port assignment.
• Perform IOS upgrades to routers and switches.
• Perform routing and switching equipment technology upgrades to ensure continued operations of the enterprise.
• Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for network operations.
• Resolve systems failures and accessibility problems within the network to our services.
• Support site survey and engineering designs data calls.
• Support new/enhanced network implementation, installation, and technical refresh projects within a site or locale.
• Works independently with some supervision.
• In remote locations must function as independent engineering, maintenance, and network problem solving with minimal or intermittent input from other Tiers/locations.
• Problems faced are difficult, will require detailed information gathering, analysis, and investigation to understand problems.
• You will employ creativity and ingenuity for new technical solutions applicable across the enterprise, drawing heavily on prior experience.
• Perform Network ticket resolution.
• Support Network ticket closure across Network Operations staff to include: Use administrative access to the network to provision new switches, routers, and Cryptographic devices.
• Uses administrative access to network components to research errors, incidents, problems and to perform incident analysis and identify potential problems.
• Routing Service Requests to the appropriate organization required for incident resolution.
• Performs root cause analyses.
• Completes problem resolutions associated with incident ticket(s).
• Review and implementation of Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
Qualifications:
Required:
• IAT IITS/SCI security clearance with ability to obtain a CI poly
• Familiarity with both Cisco and Juniper network devices
• Strong working knowledge of the various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, VRF, MPLS, 802.1x)
• In-depth knowledge of KG-175 Series TACLANES configuration process, fault isolation, and firmware upgrade procedures
• Working knowledge of Cisco-ISE
Company:
At CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI), our 27,000 talented and dynamic employees are ever vigilant in delivering distinctive expertise and technology to meet our customers’ greatest challenges in national security. Founded in 1962, the company is headquartered in Arlington, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

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