NETWORK ENGINEER SENIOR

UNCLASSIFIED POSITION

CURRENT VACANCY IS IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field; supplemented by four years of infrastructure Management or Network Management experience. Experience with Cisco Meraki switches including wireless access points strongly preferred. Strong communication and collaboration skills. Attention to detail and teamwork. Experience with network configurations (LAN, WAN, WLAN).

Specific License or Certification Required: Network certifications (CCNA, CCNP) preferred.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Must have knowledge of network control protocols (DHCP, QOS, POE, IPv4, HTTP, DNS 802.11a/b/n/ac) and network management protocols (CDP, FTP, SNMP).

Purpose of Classification:
The purpose of the Network Engineer Senior is to ensure that the county's wired, wireless network and telecom architecture and design provide a reliable and efficient network infrastructure that can meet the service level and operating level agreements, including wiring, network protocols, and firewall. Will work with support and operations teams to ensure that any network telecom issues and outages are resolved in a timely manner.

Essential Functions:
The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

Functions as team lead with design and implementation of work assignments; monitor and maintain the county network, ensuring that the appropriate capacity and availability meets the needs of the departments; manage the county's wireless network infrastructure which includes controllers, load balancers, access points, and VPNs; responsible for installing, testing wired and wireless network monitoring tools and infrastructure components.

Provide technical support for network and infrastructure issues reported by county employees; troubleshoot and resolve network hardware/software issues and repair defective components; occasional work after-hours to handle network issues.

Work directly with county network and infrastructure vendors to review, monitor and implement infrastructure components and services; work with Asset/Configuration Manager for updates and Technical Architect to develop and maintain technical design, models, and documents that represent the current state of the county network and infrastructure.

Performance Aptitudes:

Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.

Human Interaction: Requires the ability to act as a first-line supervisor, including instructing, assigning and reviewing work, maintaining standards, coordinating activities, and evaluating employee job performance.

Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate and control the actions of equipment and machinery, requiring the monitoring, adjustment, regulation, and/or setting of multiple conditions.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.

Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.

Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.

Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving broader aspects of organizational programs and operations, moderately unstable situations, or the direction, control, and planning of an entire program or set of programs.

It is the policy of Fulton County that there will be equal opportunity for every citizen, employee, and applicant, based upon merit without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, genetics, disability or sexual orientation.