IT Network Administrator

The IT Network Administrator is responsible for providing support, maintenance, and administration for various County Local, Wide Area, and Wireless Networks. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Optimizing the performance of information technology systems within an enterprise network environment; including monitoring performance, troubleshooting network issues and/or outages, and the scheduling upgrades.
• Assisting in the implementation and management of LAN/WAN and Wireless networks.
• Performs adds, moves, and changes to the network infrastructure including routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and VLANs.
• Conducts regular and periodic maintenance on the network infrastructure to ensure smooth, efficient operations and maximum network availability is maintained.
• Maintaining inventory and documentation of all deployed equipment including asset tracking, management, and removal/disposal of all decommissioned devices. Conduct an inventory assessment as requested.
• Ensures project support and performance requirements are met for the County's departments and remote facilities.
• Participate in the coordination of systems activities and communications, systems planning, design and development, and systems hardware and software projects.
• Assist in data backup, disaster recovery, and response to security breaches, service interruptions, and other critical situations.
• Maintain support standards, guidelines, and procedures for software and hardware.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Paid work experience configuring, tracking, and managing switches.
• Paid work experience configuring, deploying, and managing wireless access points and wireless networks.
• Paid work experience configuring and maintaining VLANs in an environment with more than 10 VLANs.
• Paid work experience configuring, maintaining, and patching firewalls.
• Paid work experience supporting VOIP, including end users and devices, softphones, hunt groups, and calling trees.
• Paid work experience configuring and maintaining two or more VPNs.
• Paid work experience configuring CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) network traffic flow in a blended CJIS/non-CJIS environment.

Your training and experience will be rated based on the required application material submitted and the top scoring candidates will be forwarded to the hiring department for further consideration.

Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm M-F with occasional after-hours and weekend maintenance and support. Work schedules (hours and days) and location are subject to change based on department needs.

$34.94- $41.31 hourly

Washington County participates in the federal E-Verify program. This means that Washington County will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, Washington County is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact DHS and/or the SSA before taking adverse action against you, including terminating your employment.

Employers may not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants and may not limit or influence the choice of documents you present for use on the Form I-9.

The IT Communications Network Analyst operates monitors and maintains communications network facilities, evaluates, installs and tests network components and services and resolves user network issues or network malfunctions.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

This position requires a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field and four (4) years of experience installing, operating or maintaining communications network/telecom hardware or software; OR, an Associate degree in Information Technology or related field and six (6) years of experience installing, operating or maintaining communications network/telecom hardware or software; OR, an equivalent combination of education and job-related work experience that totals eight (8) years of experience installing, operating or maintaining communications network/telecom hardware or software.

• Promote a diverse, culturally competent, and respectful workplace;
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles, operation and capabilities of current high speed communications network/telecom hardware, software and protocols;
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of communication system operation, maintenance, monitoring and control;
• Demonstrates skill in installing and configuring of switches, routers, firewalls and telecom appliances;
• Demonstrates skill in analyzing and solving communications network/telecom problems;
• Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing; and
• Demonstrates understanding of network security.

• Operate communications network facilities (links, routing and…