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Description
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we’re the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
Description:
As technical expert with complete latitude in day-to-day decision-making and focus on Network Design and Design Interface, provides system-level network solution engineering efforts associated with strategic planning of the design, development, implementation, maturation, optimization, and modernization of IT service management as part of overall transformation efforts to provide innovative, emergent, and continual business process and enterprise IT solution improvements to the customer environment. Supports translation of strategic goals, commitments, requirements, and objectives into plans, tasks, and activities for technology and/or process solutions and alternatives, from a network perspective, including the estimated potential risks associated with each. Researches, maintains, and applies expertise in emerging technologies, and industry developments, trends, best practices, and principles of network engineering and IT service management for optimizing and modernizing IT service delivery, policies, guidelines, and processes. Implements operational design standards and establishes appropriate interfaces that best fulfill interoperability and mission requirements, designing, recommending, and executing configuration of all network and communication equipment, facilities, and services in a manner to ensure highest security and most efficient flow of data. Determines specifications for and manages the cost analysis, purchase, testing, installation, support, and quality assurance review of network communications, including LAN/MAN/WAN systems and platforms. Monitors overall network performance and analyzes and implements process models to enable operational impact and efficiencies for network optimization. Analyzes network traffic and provides capacity-planning solutions. Plans and oversees execution of network installations of system hardware and software upgrades. Plans and executes backups and recovery operations. Directs or executes compilation and maintenance of network records and documentation of network configuration, development and maintenance schedules, policies, and procedures. Provides guidance and status updates regarding issues that could impact services.
Duties and Responsibilities:
· Plans, implements, and operates network services/systems, to include hardware, software, and virtual environments.
· May design, analyze, plan, modify, and maintain networks and network components supporting data, voice and/or audio communication activities.
· Prepares the analysis of short/long term capacity needs for switching, routing transmission and signaling.
· May conduct network architecture design, feasibility and cost studies as well as internal studies of network performance and traffic analysis.
· May evaluate new technology. Duties may include providing specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture; providing information for hardware and software selection; and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
· Conducts testing of network systems. Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, switchers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc.
· Evaluates and reports on new network technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.
· Determines specifications for and manages the cost analysis, purchase, testing, installation, support, and quality assurance review of network communications, including LAN/MAN/WAN systems and platforms.
· Monitors overall network performance and analyzes and implements process models to enable operational impact and efficiencies for network optimization.
· Analyzes network traffic and provides capacity-planning solutions. Plans and oversees execution of network installations of system hardware and software upgrades.
· Plans and executes backups and recovery operations.
· Directs or executes compilation and maintenance of network records and documentation of network configuration, development and maintenance schedules, policies, and procedures. Provides guidance and status updates regarding issues that could impact services.
Qualifications:
· DoD Top Secret security clearance w/ SCI eligibility
· Master’s degree in a technical field with limited experience or Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and 2 to 5 years of related experience or Associates degree in a technical field and 5 to 10 years of related experience.
· Requires advanced knowledge and understanding in area of expertise and associated equipment, processes or systems.
Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
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