Network Engineer Senior

Salary: $94,235.00 - $141,353.00 Annually
Location : FULTON COUNTY ATLANTA, GA
Job Type: FULL-TIME
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Department: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Opening Date: 04/03/2025
Closing Date: Continuous
Pay Grade K9

UNCLASSIFIED POSITION

CURRENT VACANCY IS IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field; supplemented by four years of infrastructure Management or Network Management experience. Experience with Cisco Meraki switches including wireless accesspoint strongly preferred. Strong communication and collaboration skills. Attention to detail and team work. Experience with network configurations (LAN, WAN, WLAN).

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 Senior is to ensure that the counties wired, wireless network and telecom architecture and design are to provide a reliable and efficient network infrastructure that can meet the service level and operating level agreements, including wiring, network protocols and firewall. Will work with support and operations teams to ensure that any network telecom 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.

Functions as team lead with design and implementation of work assignments; Monitor and maintain the county network, ensure that the appropriate capacity and availability meets the need of the departments; Manage the county's wireless network infrastructure which includes controllers, load balancers, access point and VPNs; Responsible for installing, testing wired and wireless network monitoring tools and infrastructure components.

Provide technical support for network and infrastructure issues reported by county employees; Troubleshoot and resolve network hardware/software issues and repair defective components; Occasional work after-hours to handle network issues.

Work directly with county network and infrastructure vendors to review, monitor and implement infrastructure components and service; Works with Asset/Configuration Manager for update and Technical Architect to develop and maintain technical design, models, and documents that represent the current state of the county network and infrastructure.

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.
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The answers you provide to the supplemental questions will be used to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position. Your responses pertaining to specific work experience and education must be clearly shown in the areas for work history and education on your application. Your application must be completed in full before it is submitted. We do not accept additional information after your application has been received by the Personnel Department. Please review your application for accuracy and make all corrections before submittal because errors can result in not meeting the minimum qualifications. Do you accept these conditions?

• Yes
• No

02

What is your highest level of education completed?

• High School Diploma or G.E.D. Equivalent
• Some College
• Associate's Degree
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• Doctorate's Degree
• None of the Above

03

Which degree related to this position do you possess?

• Associate
• Bachelor
• Master
• Doctorate
• None of the Above

04

In what field of study related to this position do you possess an Associate's Degree, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctorate's Degree or have earned college credits?

• Computer Science
• Information Technology
• Computer Information Systems
• Business Information Systems
• Systems Engineering
• Business Administration
• Networking
• None of the Above

05

If you have received some college credits related to this position, but DID NOT receive your degree, how many college credits did you earn?

• 0 - 29 Semester Hours
• 30 - 59 Semester Hour
• 60 - 89 Semester Hours
• 90 -119 Semester Hours
• 0 - 44 Quarter Hours
• 45 - 89 Quarter Hours
• 90 - 134 Quarter Hours
• 135 - 179 Quarter Hours
• Does not Apply

06

How many years of experience in Infrastructure Management or Network Management do you possess?

• Less than 6 Months
• 6 months to 1 Year
• 1.5 to 2 Years
• 2.5 to 3 Years
• 3.5 to 4 Years
• 4.5 to 5 Years
• 5.5 to 6 Years
• 6.5 to 7 Years
• 7.5 to 8 Years
• Greater than 8 Years

07

Which Network Certifications do you possess? Select all that applies.

• CCNA
• CCNP
• None of the above

08

Which Network Control Protocols do you have experience working with? Select all that applies.

• DHCP
• QOS
• POE
• IPv4
• HTTP
• DNS 802.11a/b/n/ac
• None of the above

09

Which Network Management Protocols do you have experience working with? Select all that applies.

• CDP
• FTP
• SNMP
• None of the above

10

Do you have lead or supervisory experience?

• Yes
• No

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Are you a former federal employee who has been recently released or accepted early retirement because of DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency)? If you answered "Yes", please upload your notice of termination, release, or retirement in the attachment portion of this application. Please note this letter is required for interview consideration.

• Yes
• No

Required Question