Wireless Network Engineer

System One; Bethesda (WV); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Dental and vision

Job summary

System One is seeking a Wireless Network Engineer in Bethesda to coordinate actions and reduce NIH IT burden while ensuring maximum uptime for network services.

You will collaborate with the CIT federal team to support NIH, leveraging wireless design, site surveys, and incident response in a fast-paced, highly secure environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent with relevant certification noted in ad.
• CCNA or CCNP certification is required or preferred.
• Minimum three years wireless network administration experience.
• Experience with site surveys, wireless design review, and enterprise projects.
• Proficiency with wireless tools and network protocols.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate in-person and virtual actions to reduce NIH IT burden.
• Share knowledge to help NIH IT professionals work more effectively.
• Collaborate with the CIT federal team and other service areas.
• Ensure network, internet, and intranet services have maximum uptime and respond to incidents.
• Develop solutions using evolving technologies in a secure, compliant environment.

Skills

Wireless networking

Network protocol knowledge

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent with cert

CCNA or CCNP

Tools

Ekahau

Cisco Insider

Wireless survey tools

Sitescope

SolarWinds

ScienceLogic

ServiceNow

Remedy

Infoblox

Job description

Job Title: Wireless Network Engineer
Location: Bethesda, Virginia
Work Model: Onsite – onsite
Security Clearance: Public Trust

• Leverage in-person and virtual connections to coordinate work actions, reducing the IT burden on NIH customers so they can focus on science.
• Contribute your knowledge and experience to the collective pool at NIH, helping other IT professionals at the institute level work better for their community.
• Collaborate with the CIT federal team and other service areas as ONE CIT to serve NIH.
• Help ensure the network infrastructure, internet, and intranet services are available with maximum uptime by quickly and thoroughly responding to incidents, requests, and outages.
• Utilize your networking expertise and evolving technologies to develop solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative, highly secure, and compliant environment that supports scientific discovery.

• Bachelor’s Degree or high school diploma with relevant experience and professional certification.
• CCNA or CCNP professional certification.
• Minimum three (3) years of wireless network administration experience, including site surveys, wireless design review, and enterprise project management.
• Experience with Ekahau, Cisco Insider, and wireless survey tools.
• Solid working knowledge of wireless network infrastructure, signal propagation, troubleshooting interference, coverage optimization, spectrum analysis, etc.
• Strong understanding of network protocols and switching, TCP/IP, FTP/HTTP(S), UDP, STP, VPN, with the ability to perform root cause analysis and communicate using fundamental network terminologies.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills for network devices such as Cisco routers, switches, wireless access points, UPS, and firewalls.
• Ability to activate and configure Cisco network equipment and diagnose configuration issues via command line.
• Experience creating network diagrams and deciphering topology.
• Proficiency with industry-standard wireless network tools for surveys, design, and reporting.
• Meticulous documentation skills, organized workspace, and effective teamwork or virtual collaboration.
• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership of tasks.

• Wireless Infrastructure / 802.1x and site surveys.
• Monitoring tools (Sitescope, Solarwinds, Sciencelogic).
• ServiceNow or Remedy.
• Infoblox.

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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