The Advanced Research Computing (ARC) section develops and operates a dynamic computing environment optimized for economic research, analysis, and measurement, and made available to staff across the Board's economics divisions. ARC resides in the Division of Research and Statistics (R&S). ARC supports roughly 850 staff, including 650 economists engaged in monetary policy and independent research efforts. ARC's mission is to ensure that the computing environment enhances our ability to attract and retain talented professionals. This requires a strong partnership, fostered by the ARC chief, with the Division of Information Technology (IT). IT provides endpoint, data center, and software development services to other lines of business, as well as core enterprise services relied upon by ARC. Today ARC and IT together provide an environment concentrated on?premises in the data centers. In the coming years, this partnership will help incorporate the best features of cloud computing.
ARC is seeking a Mid-Level Information Systems Specialist to support a growing leaf and spine network infrastructure that supports the research community computing infrastructure. The Mid-Level Information Systems Specialist will also ensure effective configuration, capacity utilization and alert management.
location: Washington, Washington, D.C.
job type: Contract
salary: $28 - 30 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Network System Administration
- Maintain computer networks and systems including software, VPNs, routers, switches, load balancers, and other physical hardware.
- Communicating networking issues to other employees and management.
- Respond to network events and alerts. Restoring function within required SLAs.
- Manage SD-WAN and Zero Trust, SASE network implementations across multiple cloud providers and network vendors.
- Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc.
- Build Windows Operating system servers.
- Build Linux operating system servers.
- Patch and upgrade Linux and Windows servers.
- Perform in-place migration upgrades of VMs and physical hardware.
qualifications:
- Experience level: Experienced
- Minimum 2 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors
skills:
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