A Network Engineer – is a tech professional who plans, builds, and manages the infrastructure of a network. Some of the roles and responsibilities of a network engineer are:
- Designing and implementing both physical and wireless networks, maintaining network performance, managing electronic equipment, troubleshooting network problems, and protecting data from cyber attacks.
- Overseeing capacity planning and scaling, installing and configuring servers, integrating new technology into existing networks, investigating inefficiencies and faults in the network, and managing the physical tech in the network.
- Implementing security systems and software that protect the technological infrastructure found at a company or organization.
- Maintaining disaster recovery operations and data backups, identifying, diagnosing, and fixing hardware, software, and other network problems, and replacing defective hardware components.
- Maintaining, customizing, and tracking the device and email applications for virus protection.
- Creating networking environments and capabilities, designing system configuration, directing system installation on the client’s device and defining associated protocols.
- Monitoring network engineering performance and ensure system availability and reliability.