Network Administrator

General Dynamics IT; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 77,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics IT in Bethesda, MD seeks a Network Administrator to support NIH LAN/WAN infrastructure, ensuring security, resilience, and high availability for scientists and researchers. You will configure Cisco devices, troubleshoot complex network issues, and collaborate with the CIT and NIH teams to maintain reachable, compliant services.

The role requires 3+ years of experience, a degree or equivalent, and the ability to obtain NIH public trust.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum 3 years of network administrator experience.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and network diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate actions to reduce burden on NIH users and enable scientific work.
• Share knowledge with NIH IT staff and improve group performance.
• Work with the federal IT team to provide unified CIT services.
• Ensure network uptime and security by fast incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Develop scalable networking solutions in a compliant federal environment.

Skills

Networking Hardware

Network Systems

Network Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's Degree or high school diploma with relevant experience

Tools

Cisco Routers

Cisco Switches

Firewalls

Wireless APs

Wireshark

Job description

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: NACI (T1)

Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills: Networking Hardware, Network Systems, Network Troubleshooting

Certifications: None

Experience: 1 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required: No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Network Administrator supporting the network infrastructure for LAN/WAN services at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on behalf of the Center for Information Technology (CIT). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Network Administrator you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Network Administrators joining our team to ensure that the NIH network infrastructure remains resilient, secure and operational for the NIH community to progress their science and research and continue their mission critical work.

How a Network Administrator will Make an Impact:

• Leverage in-person and virtual connections to coordinate work actions to take the burden of IT off our customers so they can focus on the science
• Contribute your knowledge and experience to the collective pool at NIH and helping other IT pros at the institute level work better for their community
• Working together with the CIT federal team and other service areas as ONE CIT to serve NIH
• Helping ensure the network infrastructure and the associated internet and intranet services are available to scientists, researchers, patients, etc... with maximum uptime by responding quickly and thoroughly to incidents, requests, and sudden outages
• Utilizing your experience of networking and evolving technologies to develop solutions in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and ever-changing enterprise federal environment that needs to remain compliant and secure but also not holding back scientific discovery and progress

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree (or high school diploma accompanied with relevant experience and professional certification)
• Minimum three (3) years of network administrator experience
• Have solid understanding and comprehension of network protocols and switching, TCP/IP, FTP/HTTP(S), UDP, STP, VPN, etc... and able to provide technical root cause analysis or requirements summaries to the team and management using fundamental network terminologies
• Have a solid working knowledge for advanced troubleshooting of network device gear such as CISCO routers, switches, wireless access points, uninterruptible power supplies, firewalls, etc...
• Activate and configure CISCO switches, routers, NICs, LAN ports, etc... and diagnose configuration issues using command line and prompts on the switch and or endpoint device
• Create network and closet diagrams and able to decipher network topologies
• Use network tools to diagnose, trace and or validate activity on LAN ports, network gear and or endpoints and be able to read and decipher logs and traffic
• Able to lift up to 50lbs to rack and stack network gear
• Have reliable means of transportation to respond to on-call emergencies within the DC-MD-VA area within defined response times
• Must be able to obtain an NIH public trust

Desired Skills:

• Be meticulous in documentation showing work performed so that it may be reviewed, recreated or presented to management
• Be organized with their workspace
• Be able to work in a team setting or with other IT pros effectively in-person or virtually for root cause analysis
• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership of tasks
• Experience with Wireless Infrastructure / 802.1x and performing site surveys
• Experience with Monitoring Tools (i.e Sitescope/Solarwinds/Sciencelogic)
• Experience with ServiceNow or Remedy
• Experience with Infoblox
• CCNA or CCNP professional certification

The likely salary range for this position is $76,500 - $103,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: Less than 10%

T elecommuting Options: Onsite

Work Location: USA MD Bethesda

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect thei