Senior Network Engineer

Posting Details
Position Information
Position Title
Senior Network Engineer
Working Title
Location
Olympia
EEO Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or status as a protected veteran. For more information regarding Evergreen's non-discrimination policies or to report discrimination, please visit the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity webpage at www.evergreen.edu/equalopportunity or contact the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Officer at (360) 867-5371, Room 3102 Library Building, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505.
Union Represented
No
Overtime Eligible
No
Monthly FTE
1.0
Salary Step (minimum monthly amount)
$7,151.00
Salary Step (maximum monthly amount)
$8,223.00
Cyclic Position
No
Cyclic Details
n/a
Project Position
No
End Date
n/a
Special Note
This is a full-time, overtime exempt position on the Olympia campus of The Evergreen State College. This position is an "at-will" appointment, exempt from Washington State Civil Service rules and the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime requirements.
Position Purpose
As a Senior Network Engineer, the position installs, configures, and maintains networking infrastructure such as routers, switches, and network appliances, as well as implements, configures, and maintains complex security and access controls for wireless and wired infrastructure across two college campuses. This position provides tier 2/3 support for the college's networking environment.
Nature and Scope
As part of the Technology Operations team, this position is responsible for researching, designing, engineering, planning, analyzing, and implementing the college's data network and related infrastructure, including the installation, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of all associated hardware and software systems. This position assists in maintenance and repair of the physical IT spaces on the Olympia and Tacoma campuses.
Essential Functions

• Serve as a Senior Networking expert for installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining the hardware networking infrastructure such as routers, switches, wireless access points, cabling, and network appliances, as well as implementing access controls, quality of service (QOS), internet filtering, content inspection, IDS/IPS, port-based authentication and security information event management (SIEM) to maintain a highly available and secure networking environment.
• Research, analyze, and manage the college's LAN, WAN, wireless and internet connections to meet the changing needs of the college.
• Install and configure complex networking equipment and systems.
• Manage and support enterprise firewall hardware, software, and operating systems.
• Identify and independently resolve operational problems for major, mission critical organization-wide networks that have high risk/impact such as routing, switching and enterprise ISP services.
• Troubleshoot complex networking problems, using techniques in fault isolation, traffic analysis, packet sniffing and other network troubleshooting tools.
• Install, configure, and upgrade hubs, switches, routers, wireless access points, quality of service (QOS) software, network appliances, and security information event management (SIEM) software to maintain a highly available and secure networking environment.
• Working with other Network Engineers, conduct capacity assessments and planning to maintain and improve network performance and reliability that meets and exceeds the college's business objectives.
• Implement network security controls that are appropriate to business needs and are consistent with security frameworks and best practices.
• Participate in security incident response to repel, secure, repair, restore and prevent further intrusion, damage or access to college systems or data by malicious actors.
• Regularly participate in security training, webinars, and meetings to stay current with the latest threats, advisories, patches, mitigations and updates to standards, frameworks and best practices.
• Collaborate with other networking professionals and leadership to interpret legal and policy requirements to plan and implement solutions to meet those requirements.
• Provide tier 2/3 support to the Technology Support Center staff and other technology teams as needed.
• Perform additional duties as assigned in the support of organizational goals and mission.

Additional Duties
Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Ability to install, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain the hardware networking infrastructure such as routers, switches, wireless access points, cabling, and network appliances, as well as implement access controls, quality of service (QOS), internet filtering, content inspection, IDS/IPS, port-based authentication and security information event management (SIEM) to maintain a highly available and secure networking environment.
• Ability to collaborate and implement network projects according to designs and plans developed with the networking team.
• Ability to manage and support enterprise firewall hardware, software, and operating systems.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently in a diverse community with other systems administrators, business analysts, project managers, software developers, Network Engineers, technology support staff, organizational leadership, and college stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a high-paced, high-risk environment.
• Ability to solve high-risk, complex technology problems.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate and convey highly complex technical information to others.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks/demands and use effective prioritization skills.
• Ability to develop and implement standards and procedures, instructions, and manuals.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to use specialized computer tools and procedures, such as file transfers, batch files, remote desktop, VPN, standardized procedures, or customized software tools as required.
• Ability to serve as a senior technical resource for networking projects involving stakeholders, other technical staff members, and/or vendors.
• Ability and motivation to become familiar with rapidly changing or new technologies and be able to apply these technologies to existing and new business needs.
• Ability to move computer systems and peripherals weighing up to 75 pounds.
• Expert knowledge of:
  • LAN and WAN technologies
  • Aruba/HPE AOS and Cisco LAN switching.
  • TCP/IP and LAN protocols.
  • routing, switching and firewall configuration.
  • internet protocols.
  • network access control, IDS, content filtering & inspection.
  • wireless networking.
• Knowledge of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model, SIEM and simple network management protocol (SNMP).
• Ability to understand and interpret policies, rules, and regulations that affect the networking environment.
• Ability to stay current on industry trends and participate in training as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Coursework or training in information technology or related field.
• Three years of experience installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining hardware networking infrastructure such as routers, switches, wireless access points, cabling, and network appliances, as well as implementing access controls, quality of service (QOS), and security information event management (SIEM) to maintain a highly available and secure networking environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Two-year degree related to information technology or closely related field from an accredited college.
• Technical certification(s), within the last five years, related to network infrastructure from Cisco, CompTIA, or equivalent.
• Five years professional experience as a Senior Network Engineer.

Conditions of Employment

• Must provide proof of identity and employment eligibility within three days of beginning work.
• Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history will be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant's suitability and competence to perform in the position.
• Prior to an official offer of employment, a Declaration Regarding Sexual Misconduct form must be submitted to the college per RCW 28B.112.080. The college will contact current and past employers to verify this information. Applicants who provide inaccurate information in their declaration will be disqualified and, if the inaccuracies are discovered after the applicant has been hired, it shall be grounds for termination.

Benefits
A full state benefits package which includes: paid sick and vacation leave; paid campus holidays; a generous medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; optional deferred compensation and optional supplemental retirement accounts. For more information about Evergreen's excellent employee benefits, please view https://www.evergreen.edu/payroll/benefits-package.
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number
S2023-117
Number of Vacancies
1
Open Date
12/15/2023
Close Date
01/10/2024
Special Instructions to Applicants