A relevant industry certification, such as COMPTIA Network+, Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA), etc.
Experience leading teams of personnel with Network Administrator skills
Proficiency designing, building, and maintaining physical and virtual networking devices, encryption (experience with Taclanes preferred), Firewall devices and rules, and networking Layer 2 and 3 devices and configurations
Expertise researching, evaluating, testing, recommending, integrating deploying, and installing network equipment and solutions to meet objectives and requirements to include new technologies.
Ability to confer with and advise management, engineers, senior network administrators, and system administrators on the management, functional capabilities and enhancement of supported networks.
Demonstrated ability to develop, test, document, and implement changes to communications networks to ensure efficient operation, interoperability with supported and affiliated tools, systems and networks, and maximized user experience.
Development of automated methods to deploy switches and firewalls with consistent results using applicable technologies for various manufacturer products.
Ability to manage, train and developing skills of junior network administrators.
Proven ability to proactively troubleshoot, resolve, and provide technical assistance related to networking issues in support of mission objectives and customer issues and requirements.
Experience conducting reverse engineering of networks, producing documentation, and the ability explain results and potential areas of improvement and optimization.
Resolve interoperability problems to maintain connectivity throughout the network
Analyze traffic information and provide analyses to justify network optimization and reconfiguration
Provide technical assistance, training and system documentation for users to promote efficient operation of communication networks
Evaluate and recommend products and services from vendors
Conduct reverse engineering of networks, provide documentation, and explain results.