Network Engineering Consultant

Provides support to clients—planning, managing, and performing new network installations, upgrades, and migrations, as well as providing ongoing system and user support/training.

Ask Yourself
 
Do you:
  • Strive to be the best of the best as a network engineer?
  • Enjoy helping people as much as solving technical problems?
  • Need more challenge than you are getting in your current position?
  • Want a career, not just a job?
  • Believe telling the truth and doing the right thing are key elements to the culture you want to be a part of?
If you answered yes to these questions, then Optimal Networks has a possible career opportunity for you today.
 
 
Job Description
 
As a Network Engineering Consultant, you will participate in all technical areas of our business, providing you with an opportunity to work with a range of technologies and business settings. You will provide direct on-site support to key clients, manage or coordinate installation and deployment projects. Additionally, you will be able to participate—and thus learn about and grow your professional capabilities—in a wide range of Optimal Networks' business practices, including assisting in writing proposals and reports, mentoring the technical staff, and helping determine the technical direction and vision for the company.
 
Responsibilities
 
The primary responsibilities for a Network Engineering Consultant are: 
  • Provide superb technical system and user support both to your designated clients and to all clients whose projects you participate in 
  • Establish, maintain, and increase client satisfaction through professional, courteous, and caring service
  • Identify client needs, design, propose and implement solutions, including writing recommendations , specifying equipment, assisting in or directly writing proposals
  • Troubleshoot and resolve client network and computer system issues
  • Manage or coordinate installation, upgrade, or deployment projects, including providing onsite direction for additional network engineers
  • Assist network engineers in troubleshooting difficult or time-sensitive problems
  • Assist other Optimal Networks network engineers with projects, as a direct participant, and to lend your unique areas of expertise when required
  • Mentor and assist network engineers, both in technical and human practices
Participate in presales process, helping to explain to clients and prospective clients the benefits of the specific technologies being proposed
 
Maintain your knowledge and expertise by learning new and evolving technologies, and acheiving approproate industry and professional certifications
 
Contribute to company vision and direction in helping improve technical practices, as well as choosing key technologies and issues to address as we grow
 
Qualifications
 
The successful Network Engineering Consultant will have the following qualifications:
  • Honesty and integrity in all dealings.
  • An understanding of modern technology and its business applications
  • A proven track record demonstrating an ability to work with designing, managing, and troubleshooting information systems technologies in a business environment
  • Deep experience and expertise in Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP (MCSE certification highly desired), and other related technologies such as backup systems, virus protection, desktop operating systems, network faxing, contact management, email, Internet configuration, and basic networking technologies. Novell NetWare and Lotus Notes/Domino experience a plus.
  • Ability to install, upgrade, and troubleshoot PC-based computer hardware, including server technologies such as SCSI subsystems, RAID systems, and so forth
  • Detailed theoretical and practical knowledge of IP protocols, firewalls, and so forth, including basic router configuration knowledge
  • Experience configuring, installing, and troubleshooting network infrastructure technologies such as Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Token Ring.
  • Excellent ability to solve problems independently
  • Excellent communication skills, including fluency in written and spoken English
  • A personal vehicle for transportation to and from client sites (Optimal does reimburse mileage)
  • Ability to lift and move computing equipment
  • At least 4 years paid professional experience in a corporate, consulting, or non-profit setting managing networked computer environements
  • Associates or (preferably) Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivilent work experience. Appropriate industry certifications are a plus
     

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