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Excellent salary potential and, as a growing company, there will be opportunities for advancement. Amyx, Inc. offers a generous benefits package including: medical/dental/vision insurance, Long Term Disability, three weeks of Paid-Time-Off, all government holidays, 401k, education assistance, profit sharing, and the potential for bonus opportunities. Amyx is an EOE. For immediate consideration, please see our current job openings.

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Amyx, Inc.

Lead Network Engineer

Apply to: Human Resources
Posted On: Thursday, 29 April 2010
Location:
Job Type:
Washington, DC
Full Time - Contingent
Travel:
Job Description:

Amyx, Inc. is a dynamic management and technical solutions provider located in Alexandria, VA. Amyx provides support to our federal government (DoD and Civilian) and private sector clients in Program Management and Acquisition Support, Systems Engineering and Implementation, Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Transformation. We understand that successful programs require superior performance and a level of trust achieved through genuine rapport with the customer. Award-winning results have propelled Amyx to become one of the fastest growing businesses in the Washington Region. Be a part of this fast growing company where your ideas and initiative are noticed, appreciated and respected. You can make a difference at Amyx, Inc., where we think big, work hard, and stay together. We are committed to recruiting bright and motivated employees, providing a challenging and rewarding career, offering staff the opportunity to develop to their full potential and rewarding and recognizing employees for exceptional work.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

1. Provides technical guidance for directing and monitoring information systems operations. Designs, builds, and implements network systems.
2. Directs compilation of records and reports concerning network operations and maintenance. Troubleshoots network performance issues. Analyzes network traffic and provides capacity planning solutions.
3. Monitors and responds to complex technical control facility hardware and software problems. Interfaces with vendor support service groups to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance.
4. Manages the purchase, testing, installation, and support of network communications, including LAN/MAN/WAN systems.
5. Performs system-level design and configuration of products including determination of hardware, OS, and other platform specifications.
6. Plans large-scale systems projects through vendor comparison and cost studies.
7. Performs a variety of systems engineering tasks and activities that are broad in nature and are concerned with major systems design, integration, and implementation, including personnel, hardware, software, budgetary, and support facilities and/or equipment.
8. Provides quality assurance review and the evaluation of new and existing software products.
9. Provides assistance and oversight for all information systems operations activities, including computer and telecommunications/communications operations, data entry, data control, LAN/MAN/WAN administration and operations support, operating systems programming, system security policy procedures, and/or web strategy and operations.
10. Provides input to policy level discussions regarding standards and budget constraints.
11. Supervises all personnel engaged in the operation and support of network facilities, including all communications equipment on various platforms in large scale or multi-shift operations.
12. Supervises complex operations that involve two or more additional functions such as, but not limited to, network operations, systems security, systems software support, and production support activities.

Preferred Skills:


Knowledge and/or experience with the test equipment necessary to perform installation and monitoring functions, including Network General Sniffers, Wireshark, etc. Should have experience with network management tools such as HP Openview, Concord eHealth, etc.

Education and/or Experience:
Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution in Information Technology or Computer Science discipline preferred.
10 years experience in IT Operations preferred
5+ years experience as a Windows Administrator
3+ years experience as a Windows Server Lead

Computer Skills:
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint at intermediate level.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations, Clearance:
CNP required
CCIE preferred
MSCE required

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Amyx is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor.