Responsibilities of a network engineer

Main responsibility of network engineers is in designing and setting-up of organization's computer network. Network engineers also maintain networking devices like switches, routers, firewalls, servers etc. Network engineers also deal with organization's internet connectivity inter-branch connectivity etc. Network engineers may also provide technical support for end users.

The basic nature of duty of a network engineer is to design computer networks and to install, administer & troubleshoot computer networks. Therefore, a network engineer should have thorough knowledge about network infrastructure devices. A network engineer should have enough knowledge in how to install, administer and troubleshoot these devices.

Network engineers have the most exciting and thrilling job. Network engineers are always updated in latest evolving technologies and they get the first chance to learn and operate the latest networking devices and related software.

A network engineer has a wide range of responsibilities. Some responsibilities of a network engineer are listed below.

• Designing an organization's computer network.

• Managing an organization's computer network.

• Designing, Building and Maintaining and connections between offices (physical sites).

• Provisioning Internet and providing user access to internet.

• Configuring user privileges to access the internet.

• Configuring user privileges in network.

• Installing, configuring, managing and hardening Operating Systems.

• Configuring Network Infrastructure Devices like switches, routers, firewalls, servers etc.

• Hardening Network Infrastructure Devices like switches, routers, firewalls, servers etc.

• Determine how much bandwidth is required for smooth operation of organization's network.

• Provision the connection and internal network devices to meet those requirements.

• Conduct analysis to make the computer network more reliable.

• Configure DNS servers for internal and external name resolution.

• Configure DHCP servers for dynamic IP address allocation.

• Providing network security.

• Providing technical support to end users.