Network Administrator

Would you like to join an innovative, progressive, and growing team?  Do you pride yourself on offering excellent products and customer services? Are you tired of internal office politics?  Well, look no further and join MEC today.

MEC is a boutique East Coast IT government consulting company.  We have a culture where teams self-organize, and people from various functions come together to work on specific projects by habits, not by exception.  We encourage new ideas, taking risks and learning from mistakes, a willingness to share information and expertise, and a highly skilled workforce connected through deep networks.  We offer opportunities for cross-collaboration, teamwork, and building on the culture of looking forward.  Apply TODAY!!!

JOB SUMMARY
Millennium Enterprise Corporation (MEC) is looking for a Network Administrator to join our Infrastructure team.  As a Network Administrator, you will be responsible for maintaining, upgrading, and supporting MEC's internal data center and our client's data center.  You oversee LANs, WANs, VLANs, and telecommunications infrastructure, including VoIP phone systems, IP-based fax systems, video conferencing, and internet-based services within Windows Domain and servers.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Design and implement strategic plans to ensure network capacity meets existing and future requirements.
2. Oversees systems backups, archiving, and disaster recovery and provides expert support when necessary.
3. Network configuration and management of a wide array of networking equipment, including firewalls, switches, routers, load balancers, and VoIP systems.
4. Implements network security according to NIST standards and established best practices.  
5. Communicate with the internal team and customers regarding network design and incidents.    
6. Responds to escalated help desk issues and provide resolution. Interacts with internal clients on all levels to help resolve IT-related issues in a timely manner.    
7. Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions.

COMPETENCIES/SKILLS

1. Must have strong knowledge of routing and switching.  Experience with Ruckus/Brocade, HP, and Cisco gets you to the front.
2. Strong customer service skills, demonstrated through leadership and strategic thinking, with the ability to work and manage multiple customer issues simultaneously, are a must.
3. Must have strong knowledge of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), IS-IS (Intermediate System to Intermediate System), Policy Routing, and MPLS.
4. Must have good knowledge on Linux, UNIX and BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution).
5. Must have excellent troubleshooting skills.
6. Experience supporting DNS and DHCP.

EDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree.  Engineering or Computer Science with 7+ years of Network Administrator experiences.

BENEFITS

MEC offers extensive benefit coverage (including and not limited to) Remote/Flexible Work Schedule, Unlimited PTO (Paid-Time-Off), healthcare (UHC; medical, dental, vision), 401K Retirement, and professional development/fitness/wellness/technology/tuition reimbursements. 

Millennium Enterprise Corporation (MEC) is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.  Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition, including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.