Senior Engineer - Infrastructure

Senior Engineer - Infrastructure

Job No: 493133

Position Type: Full‑Time Staff, Exempt

Work Type: Full‑Time Staff

Work Mode: This position requires regular in‑person presence on campus and at alternative locations, depending on class schedule and other assigned duties.

Hours Per Week: 40

Location: Arnold/Main Campus

Salary Range: $110,590 – $138,237

This position provides technical solutions in the design, implementation, management, administration and troubleshooting of the Enterprise‑wide data network infrastructure/Hybrid Cloud environments. It requires the ability to analyze the needs of user departments and establish priorities for network design accordingly.

To support a culture of excellence, the successful candidate will help build frictionless service, value feedback, and embrace continuous improvement. Candidates will deliver quality results, collaborate, innovate, and maintain open and honest communication with integrity.

• Lead efforts to develop and implement comprehensive network infrastructure system designs that meet business requirements using scalable technology.
• Provide design, configuration, implementation, monitoring, and support for enterprise/Hybrid network infrastructure (routers and switches), wireless, and video systems.
• Execute ongoing network security, health maintenance plans, processes, procedures, documentation, and operations in line with industry standards.
• Provide guidance on the implementation and administration of system monitoring tools; monitor performance and tuning of key technology components and recommend changes.
• Use project management skills to manage assigned projects, report progress, and lead upgrades or expansion of the network.
• Develop and maintain document repositories and architectural diagrams for installations, administration, maintenance, and use of systems.
• Plan and execute change management processes for the hybrid network infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix, document problems, and implement preventive measures.
• Assist in the college‑wide budget planning process. Support the development of SOWs, RFPs, and RFQs for technologies and maintenance, in close collaboration with Purchasing.
• Maintain expertise of current hybrid Cloud networking trends and provide guidance on direction of technologies.
• Ensure secure, reliable, and properly ventilated installation environments with UPS units for outages.
• Provide training and guidance to staff and students to develop new technology skills.

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of five years of relevant experience.
• Current industry‑standard Cloud related certification (e.g., Extreme ECNA, Aruba ACMA, ACMP, or other recognized networking certification).
• Comprehensive knowledge and hands‑on experience with Extreme Networks wired network infrastructure products and management software.
• Considerable experience with cloud (AWS, Azure) networking and/or security.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex Enterprise Wireless, LANs & WANs, Ethernet and Fiber Optic cabling infrastructures.
• Knowledge of dynamic routing protocols (RIP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, IGRP), IPSEC, wireless and TCP/IP protocols, switched Ethernet and VLAN technologies.
• Layer 2 and 3 LAN design and operation.

• Extreme Networks Associate, Specialist (ECS) or Professional (ECP).
• Microsoft Azure Network Engineer Associate, or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Extreme Networks Routers and Switches, Panduit Cable Management Systems, HPE/Aruba Wireless, Fat Pipe WAN Optimization, and APC UPS experience.

• Experience with Extreme Networks Routers and Switches.
• Experience with Panduit Cable Management Systems.
• Experience with HPE/Aruba Wireless.
• Experience with Fat Pipe WAN Optimization.
• Experience with APC UPS.

Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) is committed to enriching the educational experience it offers through diversity of its faculty, administrators, and staff members. The college seeks to recruit and support a broad and diverse team that will contribute to the college’s excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, embrace concepts of equity and inclusiveness, and support the equal rights of all people by advancing the understanding and appreciation of differences in age, race, gender, ability, religion, socio‑economic status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full‑time basis. Employment‑based visa sponsorship (including H‑1B) is not available for any position.