Network Engineer / Don't care why the upgrade is making your computer slow guy

A network engineer is the hard labor guy of the IT world. He handles all the “Plumbing Work” for the company’s computers. You will usually find him creeping around the shadows of the server room, connecting offices with T1 lines, then hooking them up to the internet and the tedious process of configuring all internal systems such as net routers and firewalls.

The position of a network engineer usually spills over into some UNIX systems administration work, but practically, it’s a plumbing job. Getting a start up company with a small staff and only one location configured is a pretty easy network design job. But if you work for a larger established firm with offices everywhere, the network is incredibly complicated with tiers and tiers of network engineers.

 A network engineer needs to know how to use some basic network devices like “packet sniffers”. It’s a ‘noodly’ job which doesn’t utilize a lot of tools; you have to be able to think your way through problems and understand how stuff works. You may not actually spend a lot of time typing, but rather in front of white boards (like a chalk board you write on with markers) drawing pictures to visualize your solutions.

A typical day demands typical hours, but in the life of a network engineer actual work begins off-hours when they’re tinkering with something, because it might interrupt the systems while others work. These nocturnal creatures often arrive around 10 or 11 a.m., but they’re usually there until 7, 8 or 9 p.m. And most likely they’re always on call. Networking is a world in itself which is utterly fascinatingly glamorous to people in the field.

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