Network Engineer
Raytheon Technical Services Company
Baghdad, Iraq/Arlington Va
Responsible for Enterprise wide engineering of the Tier 1 & Tier ½ WAN and day-to-day operations, maintenance, upgrade and problem determination and resolution of the theater classified and unclassified Worked with teams of routing and switching, installing, maintaining and repairing all layer 3 routing devices Installed, maintained and repaired all layer 3 routing, physical layer and fiber optic architectures. Basic understanding of Routing Protocols RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP. Perform detailed troubleshooting, installation and maintenance of Cisco devices, Cisco-based VPN, and network encryption.Perform detailed troubleshooting, installation and maintenance of Cisco ACS, CiscoWorks, SolarWinds network monitoring suite including SolarWinds engineer's edition and all associated toolsets.Demonstrate technical proficiency with Microsoft troubleshooting tools such as PING, NETSTAT, NBTSTAT, TRACEROUTE, IPCONFIG and ARP.Demonstrated technical proficiency in the repair and construction of CAT-5, CAT-5e and CAT-6 straight-thru and crossover connectors and know how CAT-5 twisted-pair works.Coordinate with other contractor companies to repair and make improvements and upgrades to both the physical and logical WAN infrastructure.Document network configurations and diagrams.Detailed understanding of the function of SIPR and NIPR networksEnsured all servers are Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) and Security Technical Implementation Guideline (STIG) compliant by running Retina Scans and Gold Disk.Installed and updated O/S patches as requiredCompleted security scans, identified vulnerabilities and documented plan or actions.Assisted the local functional user administrator with assigning user roles when required.Performed backups of local production databases and ensure backup strategy meets customer expectations.Understanding working with VMS and DISA security compliance settings for the platforms provided to customers.