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Network Designer 5/6

This position provides all Network Design and Engineering technical expertise, integration and leadership for CANES [Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services - U.S. Navy program) in the following technical infrastructure network design elements, Server, Storage (multiple technologies, FC/iSCSI/NAS), Collaboration, Service Automation, Enterprise System Management/Monitoring, Database Services, Data Protection/Backup and MLS (Multi-Level Security) architectures all for the purpose of design development, integration, installation and maintenance of the CANES program solution.

- Coordinates the technical implementation efforts of a group of skilled employees and supplier provided employee resources in their respective functional area.
- Interfaces with technology suppliers and resources directly assigned to the CCS/CCE team(s) to delegate and accomplish the design, implementation, installation of the CANES program solution.
- Supports integration with the larger program functions such as Business Management, Program Management and other technical areas such as Information Assurance (IA).
- Participates and leads projects, approves designs/processes and cost estimates in technical areas of responsibility.
- Engages in customer relationship management and interaction (technical and business briefings, strategy and architecture reviews).
- Sets priorities, provides input to budgets, procurement processes and participates in long-range planning for functional areas.
- Recommends methodologies and leads change to improve performance not only the technical design but in business execution of the program.
- Provides hands on network administration and technical build/implement/installation skills in multiple technical areas.


Competencies



General


Collaboration
Mentors others in working effectively and cooperatively with team leaders, managers and internal employees; consistently and proactively establishes and maintains good working relationships by actively involving team leaders, managers and internal employees and helping them feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Offers to provide assistance and/or thought leadership to other project team leaders when doing so would benefit the organization.

Customer Focus
Provides enterprise level modeling for making customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive, high-level customer relationships as they relate to complex and large scale projects; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to senior level customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how complex project level decisions/actions/plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet significant customer needs and resolve complex problems; provides enterprise level thought leadership on monitoring and evaluating customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.

Decision Making
Consistently and proactively recognizes a wide range of highly advanced or unusually complex issues, problems, or opportunities across the organization; determines whether action is needed. Adeptly identifies the need for and collects information to better understand issues, problems, and opportunities; has advanced knowledge in integrating unusually complex information from a variety of sources; detects unusually complex trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships. Guides others in creating relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes; can be relied upon to formulate clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option; implements decisions reliably and initiates action within a reasonable time; includes team leaders, managers and internal employees in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.

Managing Work
Identifies and creates hierarchy of activities and tasks based on criticality; adjusts priorities when appropriate. Deploys and ensures that required equipment and/or materials are in appropriate locations so that own and others' work can be done effectively and efficiently. Effectively allocates own time to complete work; coordinates own and others' schedules to avoid conflicts and maximize resources. Takes advantage of available resources (individuals, processes, departments, and tools) to complete work efficiently. Consistently uses time effectively and prevents irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with work completion.

Project Management
Recognized enterprise experience in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for significant organization, enterprise and business unit projects identifying time frames for key project milestones and ensure alignment of sub tier activities for overall project visibility, tracking and completion. Directs and manages more complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities. Independently identifies project resource requirements, integrates and directs multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan. Collaborates with others on the most complex projects assigned. As an enterprise role model demonstrates ability to direct, delegate and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of enterprise wide or extremely complex large-scale projects. Identifies and resolves any issues to ensure the successful completion of the project. Technical


Analyze & Interpret Engr Data
Basic - Advanced, expert ability to analyze and interpret company products. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts as well as advanced job practices, techniques, and standards. Recognized as a job expert within the company.
Preferred - Highly advanced, expert ability to analyze and interpret company products. Applies and develops highly advanced technologies, scientific principles, theories, and concepts as well as highly advanced job practices, techniques, and standards. Recognized as an expert in the industry.

Comm & Network Systems Test
Basic - Applies advanced knowledge of communications and network test (e.g., sub-system, system, installation, performance, operational, built-in test, qualification, acceptance). Knowledge of test methodologies for voice and data networks and communications equipment.
Preferred - Applies highly advanced communications and network test knowledge and methodologies (e.g. sub-system, system, installation, performance, operational, built-in test, qualification, acceptance). Knowledge of test methodologies for voice and data networks and communications equipment.

Data Configuration Mgmt
Basic - Advanced, expert knowledge of Configuration Management Principles and processes to maintain the integrity of data (e.g., revision level, naming conventions, product identification numbering systems) and numerically controlled media.
Preferred - Highly advanced, expert knowledge of Configuration Management Principles and processes to maintain the integrity of data (e.g., revision level, naming conventions, product identification numbering systems) and numerically controlled media.

Enterprise Architecture
Basic - Advanced, expert ability to work across the enterprise, model and analyze data from a computing technical and total business viewpoint, and integrate into an overall computing system and application systems architecture. Advanced ability to connect the networking, processing, and data management that provides the most effective computing infrastructure.
Preferred - Highly advanced, expert ability to work across the enterprise, model and analyze data from a computing technical and total business viewpoint, and integrate into an overall computing system and application systems architecture. Highly advanced, expert ability to connect the networking, processing, and data management that provides the most effective computing infrastructure.

Typical Education/Experience



Level 5 - Technical bachelor's degree and related work experience or a Master's degree with related experience or a PhD degree with related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A technical degree is defined as any four year degree, or greater, in a mathematic, scientific or information technology field of study. Level 6 - Technical bachelor's degree and related work experience or a Master's degree with related work experience or a PhD degree with related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A technical degree is defined as any four year degree, or greater, in a mathematic, scientific or information technology field of study.


Other Job related information



Ability to Obtain Interim and/or Final Clearances (Post Start) - Eligibility to live and work in US required. Experience in the Design, Integration, Build/Deployment of end-to-end Data Center technical infrastructure and business/mission environment in an MLS (Multi Level Security) environment in which cross-domain design requirements are integral (including cross-domain guard/firewall type of devices). - Experience implementing detailed network architecture and designs in all of the following in an enterprise data center environments including/considering TCO/Life Cycle and Acquisition Cost trade-offs: * Data center network topology design, implement and installation experience in MAN/WAN, as well as MLS (Multi-Level Security) topologies and supporting technologies; MPLS/VRF, Core-Distribution design and implementation; Multiple routing protocol and routing design experience (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS) * High availability network design at the access layer and data center core, as well as overall large-scale core routing redundant path designs. * Servers access network design in a scalable data center environment supporting MLS * Storage area network design supporting both iSCSI and Fibre Channel types of connectivity * Wireless - specifically Cisco WiSM and wireless access and management solutions * DNS * Virtualization Technology familiarity and network topology design experience in a heavily virtualized server and storage environment (Server Virtualization [VMWare, Sun LDOMs and Containers] desired exposure * Network Virtualization [Cisco VSS, Load Balancing, MPLS) * Enterprise System Management/Monitoring design and strategy (desired - BMC Atrium and suite of service monitoring tools) * Service Automation - (desired - HP Service Automation [OpsWare]) * Database network performance and design (multiple, primarily Oracle RAC) * Data Protection/Backup (Symantec Netbackup) - backup throughput management * Information Assurance Integration in an MLS (Multi-Level Security) architecture - Experience integrating and deploying the above elements into a highly available infrastructure environment design. This position is contingent on the award of a competitive contract expected between November 2009 and January 2010. The prime work location will be at the Boeing Offices in San Diego, CA with periodic travel to the Boeing offices in Huntington Beach, CA.


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