Network Engineer Intermediate

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. Two years of Infrastructure Management or Network Management experience. Strong communication and collaboration skills.

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

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

ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE COMPLETED IN FULL BEFORE THEY ARE SUBMITTED. PLEASE REVIEW ALL APPLICATIONS FOR ACCURACY AND MAKE ALL CORRECTIONS BEFORE SUBMITTAL BECAUSE ERRORS CAN RESULT IN NOT MEETING THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED BY THE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT.

Purpose of Classification:

The purpose of the Network Engineer is to ensure that County wired, wireless networks, and telecom systems are operating in accordance with Service Level and Operating Level Agreements, including network, wiring network protocols and firewalls. The infrastructure Engineering will also work with Support and Operation team to ensure that any network 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.

Participate in implementation efforts for major network expansions, upgrades or new functionality. Perform tasks assigned according to provided implementation plan documents; expand or upgrade network or telephone infrastructure. Provide technical support for network and telephone infrastructure.

Monitor and maintain the County network infrastructure including controller, load balancers, access points and VPN devices; troubleshoot and resolve network hardware/software issues and repair defective components.

Monitor usage to ensure for sufficient capacity of network and telephone system; update system configuration to provision new infrastructure components or adjust to change in the technical environment.

Operates the county wired and wireless network infrastructure and telephone system; work directly with County network and infrastructure related vendors, Asset/Configuration Manager, Technical Architect and Support and Quality Management.

Additional Functions:

Performs other related duties as required.

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.