# Network Administrator

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Bethesda, MD
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $76,500 - $103,500
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Network Administrator to support the network infrastructure for LAN/WAN services at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on behalf of the Center for Information Technology (CIT).

As a Network Administrator, you will play a crucial role in ensuring 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.

Key responsibilities include:

- Coordinating work actions to take the burden of IT off customers so they can focus on science

- Contributing knowledge and experience to the collective pool at NIH and helping other IT professionals at the institute level work better for their community

- Working with the CIT federal team and other service areas as ONE CIT to serve NIH

- Ensuring the network infrastructure and associated internet and intranet services are available to scientists, researchers, patients, etc., with maximum uptime

- Utilizing experience of networking and evolving technologies to develop solutions in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and ever-changing enterprise federal environment

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree (or high school diploma accompanied with relevant experience and professional certification)

- Minimum three years of network administrator experience

- Solid understanding and comprehension of network protocols and switching, TCP/IP, FTP/HTTP(S), UDP, STP, VPN, etc.

- Ability to provide technical root cause analysis or requirements summaries to the team and management using fundamental network terminologies

- Solid working knowledge for advanced troubleshooting of network device gear such as CISCO routers, switches, wireless access points, uninterruptible power supplies, firewalls, etc.

- Ability to 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

- Ability to create network and closet diagrams and decipher network topologies

- Ability to use network tools to diagnose, trace, and validate activity on LAN ports, network gear, and/or endpoints

- Ability to lift up to 50lbs to rack and stack network gear

- Reliable means of transportation to respond to on-call emergencies within the DC-MD-VA area within defined response times

- Ability to obtain an NIH public trust

Desired skills:

- Meticulous in documentation showing work performed

- Organized workspace

- Ability to work in a team setting or with other IT professionals effectively in-person or virtually

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- network protocols
- TCP/IP
- FTP/HTTP(S)
- UDP
- STP
- VPN
- CISCO routers
- switches
- wireless access points
- uninterruptible power supplies
- firewalls

### Nice to have
- Wireless Infrastructure / 802.1x
- Monitoring Tools
- ServiceNow
- Remedy
- Infoblox
- CCNA
- CCNP

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