Network Administrator

THE CITY:

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This position is a member of the Information Technology Department and provides expert technical system administration for physical and virtual servers, related technologies, and devices, and applications; maintains, analyzes, designs, implements, and manages an enterprise LAN/WAN comprised of converged technology for data, voice, video, security, wireless, fiber, and copper infrastructure; focus administration and planning of the unified LAN/WAN/MAN wired and wireless technology used by the City;

identifies and mitigates issues related to network vulnerability, traffic, and protocol problems on clients, servers, and the data flow infrastructure; and performs a variety of technical tasks related to assigned areas of responsibility.

• Plan, design, develop, implement, and maintain the City's wireless, wide, and local area networks and infrastructure.
• Act as an expert systems administrator for physical and virtual servers on the City's network.
• Evaluate and implement current and emerging technology appropriate to enhance reliability and extend the capabilities of the City's environment.
• Monitor network operations to identify traffic flow, latency, and capacity issues; develop, recommend, plan, and implement new technologies and services to satisfy capacity and performance requirements.
• Lead or participate in the evaluation and selection of hardware and software applicable to City network needs; coordinate the installation and maintenance of servers, clients, circuits, and data communications equipment; configure routers, switches, concentrator, firewalls, and other network devices.
• Monitor network security and performance including adding applications, users, and devices; identify unauthorized access and potential security risks; recommend and participate in projects to enhance network security.
• Perform DBMS backup/recovery/tuning and monitor data integrity; develop and maintain system security and firewall requirements based on City standards and department needs.
• Investigate, configure, and maintain complex physical technology including, but not limited to, wireless, wide, and local area networks, servers, workstations, and printers; develop and implement backup and disaster recovery for physical and virtualized systems.
• Investigate, configure, and maintain complex virtual technology including, but not limited to, virtual private networks, virtual local area networks, virtual servers, and virtual workstations; assist in the migration of systems from physical hardware to virtual systems.
• Investigate, configure, and migrate physical servers to virtual environments, virtual servers to physical environments, and develop distributed backup/failover/migration plans for business continuity in a disaster.
• Investigate and implement Domain to Domain connections including authentication, use, and restriction of access to systems across Domains, and appropriate firewall, and auditing/tracking technologies.
• Investigate, recommend, and configure wireless technology with new and existing networks.
• Document configurations and potential security issues and solutions in integrating wireless access to networks.
• Perform technical writing in the development and production of system documentation,…