NOC/Network Engineer in Orlando, Florida

Jacinto1023

Anyone have any experience or insight on NOC entry level jobs and also Network Engineer jobs in Orlando Florida?

Looking to make the move down to florida in 2-3years. i will have a Bacherlors in IT Network Admin, A+ N+ Security+ Linux+ Project+ MSCA Server 2012 and CCNA RS by then.

i'm hoping this is all more then enough.

i currently have a Tier 2 network Tech support job.

kurosaki00

Not sure what you're asking here.
Maybe right now there is a Y(h)uge demand of NOC techs in FL, maybe in 2 years it will be game designers.
Cant foresee how the job scene will be in 2-3 years.
Do your best, keep climbing the ladder, then move and see how it goes.

Jacinto1023

I guess your right, it varies and anything can happen quick in this field.

I'm just hoping having everything i listed can land me a decent $60K+ job in Florida.

sillymcnasty

Certs will get you the interview. Skills will get you the money.

Jacinto1023

anyone here from Orlando?

skswitch

Not from Orlando but very near the area. Oddly enough this is my area of work. I believe my last job was doing some back fill of NOC Engineers but it was really more 75% operations / 25% Networking. I do see a lot of cut and paste generic posting for NOC Engineer so be sure its actually responsibilities your wanting and not a gloried title but really your a Restart Engineer.

I seen your from New York? Prepare for a HUGE different in cost of living depending on what you are use to now. Lot of people I worked with in this area are either from NY who moved down or Puerto Rico who moved up lol. Co-worker who was from up north went from 90K+ to mid 50's. But he said it was about the same afterwards.

p@r0tuXus

I wouldn't have thought that based on these numbers:

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=United+States&city1=Orlando%2C+FL&country2=United+States&city2=New+York%2C+NY

Jacinto1023

so you would say there are jobs for NOC and Network engineers in florida?

also your coworker, you said it was the same afterwards. do you mean his pay or you mean after calculating the cost of living with his 50k pay in florida?

MontagueVandervort

Start doing job searches in the area you're interested in going to. You can also start playing around with salary indicators for those same areas. That should give you at least some idea.

skswitch

Jacinto1023 wrote: »

so you would say there are jobs for NOC and Network engineers in florida?

also your coworker, you said it was the same afterwards. do you mean his pay or you mean after calculating the cost of living with his 50k pay in florida?

About the same after calculating cost of living. As the link above shows the huge difference for rent cost.

Rent Prices in New York, NY are 156.83% higher than in Orlando, FL

Node Man

I would be temped to check for IT jobs at Disney

odysseyelite

There are four major companies in Orlando: Disney (which is outsourced), Universal, Sea World and Tupperware HQ. They all trade employees. There are smaller companies like law firms and some defense contractor there but these were the major datacenters. You would be better looking at Tampa for more openings in my opinion. I worked in Tampa to 2010, in orlando for one year before heading to Texas.

Eston21

There are also various cellular companies that have NOCs.

skswitch

odysseyelite wrote: »

There are four major companies in Orlando: Disney (which is outsourced), Universal, Sea World and Tupperware HQ. They all trade employees. There are smaller companies like law firms and some defense contractor there but these were the major datacenters. You would be better looking at Tampa for more openings in my opinion. I worked in Tampa to 2010, in orlando for one year before heading to Texas.

Wowww that is a pretty quick glaze over for some top defense contractors

Lockheed Martin / Northrop Grumman / Boeing / Harris / Thales also NASA / Space X.

I would avoid the theme parks like the plague unless you like the perks that come in it. (Which are getting less and less each year).

skswitch

Jacinto1023 wrote: »

Anyone have any experience or insight on NOC entry level jobs and also Network Engineer jobs in Orlando Florida?

Looking to make the move down to florida in 2-3years. i will have a Bacherlors in IT Network Admin, A+ N+ Security+ Linux+ Project+ MSCA Server 2012 and CCNA RS by then.

i'm hoping this is all more then enough.

i currently have a Tier 2 network Tech support job.

Look's like we have similar certs/background. WGU? I don't think you would have an issue with getting a position here.

For ISP there is Centurylink / L3 and Brighthouse that I'm aware of. Or you can look into the companies I listed above for both Network Engineer / NOC type position.

Don't let titles hang you up. A lot of people I work with have different titles across the board but mainly deal with route/switch.