Wireless Network Engineer

Title : Wireless Network Engineer

Location : Bethesda, MD (100% onsite)

Clearance : Will be processed for Public trust (4-8 weeks)

Salary : $80K-$85K

Contract : 6 month to perm

Interview Process: 1 round of interviews (Teams video interviews)

The environment has ~10,000 wireless access points

Focusing on wireless (From implementation, troubleshooting, etc. junior to mid wireless expert)

Main focus is connecting different devices to wireless network, some consulting, design work

CCNA or CCNP

Ekahau or Cisco Insider – need to be well-versed in survey tools

Going into the building and scoping/surveying the environment/room and being able to make appropriate recommendations on where to put wireless access points

As a Wireless Network Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on you joining our team to ensure that the NIH network wireless infrastructure has widespread coverage and is resilient, secure and operational for the NIH community to progress their science and research and continue their mission critical work.

How a Wireless Network Engineer will Make an Impact:

• Responsible for designs, projects, and expansion of wireless networks at NIH Bethesda campus and satellite offices within the DC-MD-VA area and nationally
• Leverage in-person and virtual connections to coordinate projects and 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 wireless 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, coverage issues, and sudden outages
• Utilizing your experience of wireless infrastructure and following of evolving technologies and changing industry standards to develop solutions for 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

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree (or high school diploma accompanied with relevant experience and professional certification)
• CCNA/CCNP required

Required Experience:

• Minimum three (3) years of wireless network administration experience including performing extensive site surveys, creating and reviewing wireless designs, managing wireless projects in an enterprise environment
• Experience using Ekahau, Cisco Insider, wireless survey tools

Required Technical Skills:

• Have a solid working knowledge of wireless network infrastructure, signal propagation, advanced troubleshooting wireless interference, optimizing coverage, spectrum analysis, etc…
• Have solid understanding and comprehension of network protocols and switching, TCP/IP, FTP/ 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 industry standard wireless network tools to perform wireless surveys, create designs, produce analysis reporting, etc…

Desired Experience and Skills:

• CCNP Wireless Enterprise certification
• Ekahau Design certification
• Experience with Monitoring Tools (i.e Sitescope/Sciencelogic) and ServiceNow
• Be meticulous in documentation showing work performed so that it may be reviewed, recreated or presented to management
• Be organized with their workspace
• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership of tasks