- Location
- Houston, TX
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Closing date
- Apr 16, 2026
- Source
- ApplyToJob
Description
General Overview:
The Network Administrator should have extensive experience maintaining large-scale computer systems, the ability to project manage, and excellent troubleshooting skills. Ultimately, a top-level IT engineer can design and maintain a dynamic and stable system to perfectly meet the needs of the company.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
REQUIREMENTS:
Education:
Core Networking Knowledge:
FortiGate additional explicit requirements:
Cisco additional explicit requirements:
Security Requirements:
A Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) must be signed at the contract signature time
The Network Administrator should have extensive experience maintaining large-scale computer systems, the ability to project manage, and excellent troubleshooting skills. Ultimately, a top-level IT engineer can design and maintain a dynamic and stable system to perfectly meet the needs of the company.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Meeting with the Network supervisor to discuss network needs
- Designing, installing and configuring computer network hardware
- Troubleshooting network and software issues
- Installing high-level software security systems
- Training staff on newly installed hardware and software systems
- Fixing hardware, software, and networking issues
- Responding to general IT requests
- Ensuring security software is kept up to date
- Filing monthly reports for the IT Manager
- Maintaining IDFs organized and clean
- Maintaining Monitoring systems (Nagios, nginx, others)
- ISP tickets submit, follow, escalate, co-work
- Monitoring systems for failures
- Maintaining documentation as is Procedures, Policies, Forms
REQUIREMENTS:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
- Preferred Certifications: CCNA, CCNP or any other Cisco certification
- CCNA, CCNP or any other cisco certification preferred
- High knowledge about ISO layers,
Core Networking Knowledge:
- High knowledge about ISO layers
- High understanding of DHCP, DNS, and Network Masks
- Use of network sniffers like Wireshark, tcpdump or other
- Network routing understanding
- Cybersecurity sense.
FortiGate additional explicit requirements:
- Policies management managing
- Web Filtering managing
- IPS managing
- AV managing
- HA managing
- Wireless AP managing
- Backup and restore configuration
Cisco additional explicit requirements:
- VTP managing
- STP managing
- QoS Managing
- Back-up/restore configuration
- IOS upgrade/downgrade
- Stack managing
- HSRP managing
- Tclsh (is a plus)
- High sense of urgency and responsiveness
- Responsible, dependable, and proactive in system management
Security Requirements:
A Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) must be signed at the contract signature time
Skills
NginxiOSCybersecurityCCNA
