Enterprise Network Engineer III

Title

Enterprise Network Engineer III

Enterprise Technology – Infrastructure

Austin, TX

40 hours per week. Monday–Friday flexible between 7 am‑6 pm; occasional nights or weekends may be required.

• Competitive health benefits with employee premiums covered 100% and family premiums 50%
• Vision, dental, life, and disability insurance options
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
• Teacher Retirement System of Texas (defined benefit plan)
• Additional voluntary retirement programs:
  Tax‑Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and Deferred Compensation 457(b)
• Flexible spending account for medical and childcare expenses
• Training and conference opportunities
• Tuition assistance
• Athletic ticket discounts
• Access to UT Austin libraries and museums
• Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Capital Metro buses with staff

Provide senior technical engineering support to design, build, operate, secure, and improve the university’s enterprise and departmental networks. Partner with campus customers and internal teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and resilient network services, provide advanced troubleshooting and escalation support, and contribute to network standards, lifecycle planning, and continuous operational improvement.

• Independently plan, design, implement, and maintain enterprise network and telecom systems to meet performance objectives and service level expectations.
• Develop network solutions for enterprise and departmental environments, including routing, switching, and segmentation with a focus on resiliency and customer edge services.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Technology and unit representatives to anticipate network, telecom, security, and isolation needs for classrooms, research labs, and auxiliary venues.
• Plan, test, deploy, and document new services, upgrades, and infrastructure changes for production support.
• Provide escalation support for complex network designs, outages, service degradation, and advanced troubleshooting issues.
• Evaluate technical risk, change impact, and non‑standard customer requirements before implementation.
• Participate in after‑hours maintenance, rotational on‑call response, emergency restoration, and incident coordination.
• Drive university‑owned vehicles to job sites, maintaining an acceptable driver rating as per policy UTS
  157.
• Evaluate new network and telecom technologies, conduct proof of concept implementations, and lead pilot deployments.
• Support automation of infrastructure deployment, fault detection, standardized operations, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain technical documentation, network standards, telecom standards, and operational procedures for enterprise services.
• Contribute to architecture review, standards development, lifecycle planning, and continuous improvement of network operations.
• Share technical knowledge with junior engineers regarding implementation practices, troubleshooting methods, and operational procedures.

• U.S. Citizen, resident, or officially recognized asylee.
• Extensive experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting enterprise networks.
• Ability to provide advanced technical support for network operations, customer‑facing services, and incident response.
• Understanding of Ethernet cabling standards and color codes.

• Eight or more years of experience designing and operating enterprise networks.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience with Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, and wireless platforms (IOS, IOS‑XE, NX‑OS, ASA).
• Large‑scale network operations experience and architecture design.
• Experience with security operations, compliance‑aligned network design, MPLS VRF/L2
  
  VPN, NAC or IBNS, and software‑defined networking concepts.
• Higher education experience and experience mentoring network engineers.

Class “C” driver’s license and a valid three‑year driving record. If not a Texas resident, a Texas driver’s license must be obtained within 30 days of becoming a resident.

$110,000 plus depending on qualifications.

• Standard office conditions and electronic workshop environment.
• Repetitive keyboard…