Network Engineer Careers

Work Environment:

Being a network administrator/engineer, you'd maintain, design and install computer-communications systems. These communication-systems permit employees and organizations to give services, communicate, and share resources and files.

Your duties will be ensure that network-system has capability to fulfill client's requirements and it's safe.

You'd work with 4 major network-systems:

• GAN (Global Area Network): joining networks across an unrestricted geographical-area, generally utilizing satellite and wireless technologies
• LAN (Local Area Network): linking computers in limited region, such as building/office
• MAN (Metropolitan Area Network): connecting LAN within city
• WAN (Wide Area Network): connecting systems over national-boundaries

Generally, your tasks may comprise:

• Providing technical-support to users
• Keeping sufficient security particularly where network systems connect to world-wide web
• Setting up new hardware and software
• Setting up preventative-maintenance schedules
• Putting in passwords, user accounts and permissions
• Performing daily administration and checking network usage
• Recognizing and repairing network errors
• Planning out and applying future-developments
• Giving training on newer network systems

You might be capable to enter in this field by a trainee ship program within IT firms or IT-department of public/commercial organization.

Then again, you can acquire abilities required to maintain and install network systems, by accomplishing an IT-course. Related training courses comprise:

• Business and Technology Education Council(BTEC): Diploma or Certificate into Systems Support
• CompTIA-Certification
• 'City and Guilds': Second and Third Level Diploma
• OCR: Second and Third Level Certificate into Systems Support

• How various network-systems communicate i.e. network protocols: VOIP, FTP, TCP and IP
• Security: VPN, firewalls and antivirus software
• GAN, WAN, LAN and MAN network systems
• Data transmission-technologies: ATM, wireless, Ethernet, ASDL and ISDN

Check the sites of CompTIA, eskills and British Computer-Society, for details regarding IT careers.

Training Details:

IT (information-technology) is a fast moving sector, and it's essential to maintain your knowledge and abilities updated all through career. To achieve this, you'd be required to accomplish additional training courses, e.g.:

• NVQ: Third and Fourth Level
• 'City and Guilds': Fourth Level Diploma into Information Management
• CompTIA Certification
• OCR: Fourth-Level Award into Systems Support
• CNE (Certified Novell-Engineer)

Microsoft and Cisco certification-training can assist you to boost career, though it's suggested that you've experience into IT field or Third Level-qualification before beginning a program. The major network engineering training courses comprise:

• MCSA (Microsoft Certified-Systems Administrator) and MCSE (Microsoft Certified-Systems Engineer)
• CCNP (Cisco Certified-Network Professional) and CCNA (Cisco Certified-Network Associate)

You can accomplish BCS (British Computer-Society): vocational qualifications to boost career. For additional-information check the site of BCS.

Skills and knowledge:

• Dedication to staying updated with newest developments
• Capability to clarify technical-issues
• Outstanding IT proficiency
• Excellent interpersonal-skills
• Outstanding problem resolving abilities
• Capability to operate as member of staff/team
• Organizational abilities to plan out tasks

• Initial remunerations fro network engineers can be about £ 16,500 to £ 23,500 for a year.
• By experience income can boost to around £ 25,800 to £ 37,500.
• Annual earnings of Sr. network engineers can be above £ 43,000.

Generally, you'd work weekly for around 38 to 41 hours, on weekdays. You might be anticipated to do overtime while setting up network-systems to minimize disturbance to business of client. Furthermore, you can have on call-duties for issues which take place outside standard working hours.

You'd work within an office, or between worksites, if working on big network-operation.

Different Opportunities:

You could discover work chances within fields, such as NHS, national and regional government, finance, or retail. You can work within IT firms who perform contract work, or manage their systems.

If experienced, you can proceed to network administrator posts, or advance to other IT fields such as consultancy, project management or information-security.

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