Washington State Patrol
IT Network and Telecommunications - Sr/Spec
Washington State Patrol, Olympia, Washington, United States, 98502
About the Agency & Division: The WSP actively supports Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in the workplace, and is an * Equal Opportunity Employer. The WSP strives to create and foster an inclusive culture inspiring everyone to be their authentic selves, speak openly, and be courageous. The WSP continues to focus on equitable hiring, training, and promotional practices and policies through innovative recruitment and retention solutions. Partnering with our communities helps the WSP provide the best in public safety services now and into the future. * The *Electronic Services Division (ESD) * supports all goals, most directly Sustaining and Enhancing agency infrastructure and business processes, by improving collaborative outcomes between WSP business and technology divisions, using consistent planning processes, increasing business continuity capabilities, and providing quality communication services.
Duties
This position is one of several who are responsible for the network hardware, network configurations, and network administration inside the State Data Center (SDC) and the Quincy Disaster Recovery site. This position assists the agency Network Engineering Manager and performs highly complex tasks such as conducting data network capacity planning to determine agency needs and make recommendations; designing complex agency-wide data network infrastructure crossing multiple data networks. The position provides technology leadership for Information Technology (IT) network infrastructure and transport systems, which enables the agency to effectively engage in its public safety activities. The position sets direction and defines the Data Center technology infrastructure. Our new teammate will be able to:
Assist agency architect and other Senior Network staff on the agency's remote, on-premises and virtual networks.
Maintain current design, maintenance, and projects for network architecture.
Coordinates and maintains accurate documentation, including detailed diagrams, for WSP infrastructure.
Keep up to date with emerging technologies, concepts, and methodologies. Support network engineering staff through coaching and mentoring, focusing on technical development. Provides technical solutions for the WSP enterprise environment and implementation of high availability network solutions on premises and cloud, to support convergence of voice and data, WSP network and WSP Maintenance LAN/WAN.
Assists Agency Architects and ESD Network Manager in designing, planning, and coordinating new LAN/WAN services for WSP locations, to include purchase of equipment, configuration, installation, and maintenance.
Analyze network bandwidth utilization, complex routing configurations, and firewall configuration.
Support Network Section as technical subject matter expert (SME) in advanced level network support such as designing, installing, configuring and maintain all agency switches, routers, firewalls, and wireless access points.
Facilitates Virtual Private Network (VPN) and circuit-based connectivity solutions between the WSP network environment, vendor environments, and cloud hosted environments. ·
Maintain, manage, and administration of the State and Quincy Data Centers' interconnection and connections to the WSPWAN.
Monitor and oversee the leased WAN connections ensure the services meets WSP business, security, capacity and availability requirements.
Work closely with the ESD Network Section Manager, the ITD Architecture team, ITD Security team, the ITD Planning & Project Management Office, ITD IO Group, WaTech, and the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) to ensure that all State requirements for I
Duties
This position is one of several who are responsible for the network hardware, network configurations, and network administration inside the State Data Center (SDC) and the Quincy Disaster Recovery site. This position assists the agency Network Engineering Manager and performs highly complex tasks such as conducting data network capacity planning to determine agency needs and make recommendations; designing complex agency-wide data network infrastructure crossing multiple data networks. The position provides technology leadership for Information Technology (IT) network infrastructure and transport systems, which enables the agency to effectively engage in its public safety activities. The position sets direction and defines the Data Center technology infrastructure. Our new teammate will be able to:
Assist agency architect and other Senior Network staff on the agency's remote, on-premises and virtual networks.
Maintain current design, maintenance, and projects for network architecture.
Coordinates and maintains accurate documentation, including detailed diagrams, for WSP infrastructure.
Keep up to date with emerging technologies, concepts, and methodologies. Support network engineering staff through coaching and mentoring, focusing on technical development. Provides technical solutions for the WSP enterprise environment and implementation of high availability network solutions on premises and cloud, to support convergence of voice and data, WSP network and WSP Maintenance LAN/WAN.
Assists Agency Architects and ESD Network Manager in designing, planning, and coordinating new LAN/WAN services for WSP locations, to include purchase of equipment, configuration, installation, and maintenance.
Analyze network bandwidth utilization, complex routing configurations, and firewall configuration.
Support Network Section as technical subject matter expert (SME) in advanced level network support such as designing, installing, configuring and maintain all agency switches, routers, firewalls, and wireless access points.
Facilitates Virtual Private Network (VPN) and circuit-based connectivity solutions between the WSP network environment, vendor environments, and cloud hosted environments. ·
Maintain, manage, and administration of the State and Quincy Data Centers' interconnection and connections to the WSPWAN.
Monitor and oversee the leased WAN connections ensure the services meets WSP business, security, capacity and availability requirements.
Work closely with the ESD Network Section Manager, the ITD Architecture team, ITD Security team, the ITD Planning & Project Management Office, ITD IO Group, WaTech, and the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) to ensure that all State requirements for I