Junior Network Administrator

The Payroll Company's Professional Staffing division in Middleton, WI is recruiting for an exciting career opportunity. Our client located in the Madison suburbs is seeking a Junior Network Administrator for a 6 12 month contract role (with a strong potential to extend). This is a great entry level position where you'll be assisting in the daily administration of the company's Information Technology (IT) network infrastructure including switches, routers, firewalls, WAN/LAN communications, and internet connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, administer, and support network infrastructure.
• Perform network device configuration, backup, and troubleshooting.
• Perform problem source identification and recommends and implements appropriate mitigation to prevent problem recurrence.
• Independently makes critical technical decisions that may be needed to restore systems, perform maintenance, and/or complete critical tasks. These may be performed outside of normal business hours without guidance from supervisor.
• Assists in the development of maintenance standards, policies, and procedures affecting installation, testing, and deployment of new network infrastructure environments.
• Designs monitoring systems and solutions as necessary to ensure reliability and integrity of network infrastructure components.
• Designs and recommends review and evaluation process.
• Executes network-related utilization and capacity planning activities.
• Performs planning, coordination, and communication for system changes, outages, and problems.
• Builds, tests, analyzes, and documents modifications and service procedures necessary to operate and sustain the corporate network environments.
• Creates, maintains, and reviews multifaceted documentation for all network infrastructure systems.
• Maintains awareness of computing and networking industry trends as they affect corporate systems, users, and business computing needs.
• Complies with incident and change management processes and ensures adherence to Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other application controls.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience OR 3+ years of experience in Network administration/technologies (Cisco preferred).
• IT network implementation and support experience integrating and supporting Cisco and Dell hardware and software (including, but not limited to, routers, switches, load balancers, proxy servers, and Internet-facing appliances).
• Implementation and support experience with firewall systems, security appliances, and VPN hardware and software.
• IT systems support experience integrating and supporting multisite networks and mobile workforce needs.
• Knowledge implementing and maintaining common network technologies including DNS, IP Routing, HTTP, QOS, NAT, IDS/IPS, VPN, etc.
• Setup and configuration of wireless networking components.
• Setup and configuration of switching and VLAN environments.
• Knowledge of LAN/WAN topologies, network protocols, and routing/switching concepts.
• Conceptual knowledge of server infrastructure and supporting hardware such as blade chassis and SAN.
• Knowledge of utilizing common network sniffer tools to monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot network-related problems.
• Maintenance of network security through proper configuration of firewalls and VPN appliances.
• Strong analytical skills to translate user project needs into technical solutions.
• Able to recognize system or component failures requiring expertise of vendors or contracted services.
• Able to learn new technologies and apply them to existing and future business needs.
• Able to multitask on projects of varying complexity.
• Strong planning, verbal, writing, and interpersonal skills.
• Able to effectively communicate with nontechnical management and staff.
• Effective time management skills.
• Able to provide on-call coverage within a defined rotation.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

• Scripting experience (PowerShell, etc.).

If this position sounds of interest to you, please send a current resume and we will respond as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you

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