So as I mentioned in another thread, I managed to get out of the noc and into a network engineering job. The official title is intermediate network engineer (although the senior guy's title is network admin) and the location is Fort Leonard Wood, MO. I'm working for a company that (exclusively?) does government contracts.
I started Monday and it looks like the network in question is an isolated "campus" network between 3 buildings used for training. Besides myself one of the PC techs that just passed his CCNA is being promoted to a 'junior' position on the network team.
There's no routers in the design - strictly 2960's and various layer 3 switches. About 50 total, with maybe 30 vlans (some of which are unused and I'll be pruning).
There's a few things that make me cringe, reviewing the configs as I clean up old admin accounts and make a few adjustments for consistency (banner login, requiring login at console, etc). I gotta try not being the type to charge in with "ok I may be new, but now that I'm here we're gonna change everything"
Ft Leonard Wood is about 4 hours away from my home, so I'm driving down there early Monday and staying in a cheap hotel, then driving home on Friday. The family will be coming down soon, since that's really the only bad part, sitting in a hotel room watching avis on my laptop until bed time.
