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DXC Technology Senior Professional Network Engineer - Onsite Chicago, IL in Springfield, Illinois

Job Description:

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at DXC.com .

Essential Job Functions

  • Maintains data, voice or video network hardware and systems; investigates and resolves network and hardware matters of significance; researches, analyzes, isolates and resolves errors; assesses and updates older networks as needed and in accordance with specified plans.

  • Provides technical support on data, voice or video networks for internal and/or external customers; answers technical questions; recommends and implements approved course of action. Provides technical leadership for data or voice network problem escalation and resolution.

  • Installs and maintains network facilities, including hardware, software, and system data for small to medium sized networks. Installs network applications on network servers or voice equipment; maintains, tests, researches and resolves problems. Determines appropriate standard testing routines or scripts; may test various voice or data equipment such as routers, switches, hubs or optical equipment, or multi-function switches, end offices, signaling transfer points, private branch exchanges (PBX), voice mail, and call management system, etc. for maintenance.

  • Designs, implements and maintains various networks such as LAN, WAN, and voice systems in accordance with specified requirements. Prepares data or voice network diagrams and drawings to document and assist in communicating current operational status of networks.

  • Performs data or voice network configurations and configuration changes of various voice or data equipment such as routers, switches, intelligent hubs, multi-function switches, end offices, signaling transfer points, PBX, voice mail, call management systems, etc. to enhance performance.

  • Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.

  • Prepares routine proposal documentation and information to meet customer requirements. Prepares routine cost analyses and vendor comparisons to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations, and measures feasibility of various approaches.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, management information systems, or related field preferred

  • Six or more years of experience in data, voice or video networks

  • Experience working with local area network systems and technical infrastructure communication issues

  • Experience working with network systems and networking principles, data, voice or video

  • Experience working with network software and hardware, data, voice or video

  • Experience working with multiple technical platforms (e.g., mainframe, two-tiered client-server, three-tiered client-server)

  • Dedicated experience to basic foundations of network routing/switching

  • Experience with Cisco Nexus switches is highly preferred. Experience with Cisco Nexus 9000 series is a plus

  • Experience with VXLAN is a plus

  • Knowlege and experience with firewalls is a plus

  • Experience with F5 load balancers is a plus

Other Qualifications

  • Good analytical and problem solving skills

  • Skilled in time, priority and task management

  • Interpersonal skills to interact with customers and team members

  • Communication skills to interact with team members and support personnel

  • Leadership skills to assist less experienced personnel

  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team

  • Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment

  • Ability to convey a strong presence, professional image, and deal confidently with technical problems

  • Willingness to travel

Work Environment

  • Office environment within Chicago, IL

  • May require on-call work

  • May require weekend or shift work

If you are an applicant from the United States, Guam, or Puerto Rico

DXC Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer (https://dxc.com/content/dam/dxc/projects/dxc-com/us/pdfs/careers/Equal-Employment-Opportunity.pdf) . All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age or genetic information. DXC's commitment to diversity and inclusive selection practices includes ensuring qualified long-term unemployed job seekers receive equal consideration for employment. View postings below.

We participate in E-Verify. In addition to the posters already identified, DXC provides access to prospective employees for the Federal Minimum Wage Poster, Federal Polygraph Protection Act Poster as well as any state or locality specific applicant posters . To access the postings in the link below, select your state to view all applicable federal, state and locality postings. Postings are available in English, and in Spanish, where required. View postings below.

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Disability Accommodations

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Please note: DXC will respond only to requests for accommodations due to a disability.

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