GNOC Tier II Technician; Government

AT&T Global Public Sector is a trusted provider of secure, IP enabled, cloud-based, network solutions and professional services to the Federal Government. We are dedicated to recruiting, developing and empowering a diverse, high-performing workforce that is passionate about what they do, committed to our shared values and dedicated to our customers’ mission.

Our National Security Team supports the intelligence community, providing, operating, and assuring critical voice, video and collaboration services for the full spectrum of operations.

AT&T has an opening for a Government Network Operations Center (GNOC) Tier II Network Technician to support the customer’s computer data communications systems, by providing in-depth event management and rapid incident response as part of a 24x7 network operations support team. This position requires office presence a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted.

No relocation is offered. Work to be performed at a government customer site in Springfield, VA.

• From the GNOC location the Tier 2 network technician will leverage device command line interfaces to remotely support the installation and maintenance of the client Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN) devices. Respond to and resolve incident tickets.
• Configure and troubleshoot layer 2 switching (Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)).
• Leverage knowledge of OSI layers 1, 2, and 3 to troubleshoot various network faults and performance issues.
• Modify and troubleshoot layer three routing across the enterprise network.
• Conduct extensive troubleshooting of Multiprotocol Label Switch (MPLS) across the WAN.
• Participate in evaluation of new network technologies and provide recommendations to the network architecture team regarding the integration of these technologies into the existing network. Ensures that plans for hardware and communications are adequate. Develops and implements methodologies for analysis, testing, and support of LAN and WAN networks.
• Leverage various network tools such as Microfocus and Riverbed to quickly identify and isolate customer impacting events on the network.
• Make use of problem management best practices to minimize recurring customer impacting incidents on the network.
• Communicate and troubleshoot with vendors and other service providers to efficiently resolve incidents.
• Diagnose hardware and software problems and coordinate the replacement of defective components.
• Support operations and maintain activities and administer networks including hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
• Support network operations and maintenance activities via technical exchange meetings.
• Any other tasks as needed to provide proper network-related support for customer mission focused systems.

TS/SCI with polygraph. (#ts/sci) (#polygraph)

Candidate must have 10 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 3 years, master’s and 4 years, bachelor’s and 6 years, associates and 8 years or HS diploma and 10 years.

Additional required qualifications include:
Compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.

• Knowledge of Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS), Juniper JUNOS, Brocade and Foundry Operating System (OS).
• Layer 1, 2, and 3 network experience.
• Familiarity (doesn’t need to be an SME) with Layer 3 protocols such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), Hot Standby Router…