Network Engineer
What does a professional in this career do?
Network engineers are responsible for building and maintaining the day-to-day operation of computer networks that companies and organizations rely on. These networks typically include an intranet, extranet, local area network (LAN), and wide area network (WAN).In this job you will...
- Maintaining and administering computer networks and related computing environments including systems software, applications software, hardware, and configurations.
- Performing disaster recovery operations and data backups when required.
- Protecting data, software, and hardware by coordinating, planning, and implementing network security measures.
- Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving hardware, software, and other network and system problems.
- Replacing faulty network hardware components when required.
- Maintaining, configuring, and monitoring virus protection software and email applications.
- Monitoring network performance to determine if adjustments need to be made.
- Conferring with network users about solving existing system problems.
- Operating master consoles to monitor the performance of networks and computer systems.
- Coordinating computer network access and use.
- Designing, configuring and testing networking software, computer hardware, and operating system software.
Skills You Will Gain
Computer networks
Diagnosing
Intranet
local area network (LAN)
Troubleshooting
Wide area network (WAN).
Representative Journeys
Foundations of CybersecurityKevin Cardwell | Cybersecurity | 3 hrs and 30 mins
Launch Journey
Analyzing and Defending Networks with Wireshark
Kevin CardwellSkills: HackingTCP/IPWiresharkJourney Completed
