Network and Data Center Engineer

UT MAIN CAMPUS

Full time

Weekly Scheduled

Hours:

40

FLSA Status:
Exempt from FLSA

Earliest

Start Date:

Immediately

Position Duration:
Expected to Continue

This position will support the university’s new School of Computing, which includes 3 strong departments and more than 9,000 students across all programs. This places UT among the most significant intellectual hubs for computer science, information, and statistics and data science research and education anywhere in the world. The School of Computing has a close relationship with Austin’s thriving tech culture and works at the forefront of fields spanning artificial intelligence, robotics and quantum computing;

data science, statistics and scientific discovery; cybersecurity and trustworthy computing; and human-centered technology, information, and the societal impacts of computing.

The School of Computing seeks a Network and Data Center Engineer to administer and support the School’s and departments’ network, data center, and computing hardware infrastructure. The engineer will have primary day-to-day responsibility for School-managed network and data center infrastructure and will work closely with University networking, information security, facilities, and other central IT teams on shared services and infrastructure.

The position also supports the network and physical hardware infrastructure for research computing, including HPC, GPU-accelerated computing, and AI/ML research systems. Experience with these environments is strongly desired, although the position is not responsible for HPC operating systems, research software, AI/ML frameworks, or application support.

• Configure, operate, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot School-managed network infrastructure, including switches, routers, firewalls, VLANs, and network segmentation.
• Diagnose and resolve connectivity, routing, performance, and network security issues, coordinating with University networking and security teams when appropriate.
• Implement network upgrades, configuration changes, capacity improvements, and equipment replacements.
• Participate in the design and planning of network improvements and new infrastructure.
• Work with University networking staff to troubleshoot wireless issues and assess coverage, capacity, and upgrade needs.
• Maintain network diagrams, configurations, addressing information, and related technical documentation.

• Install, cable, maintain, and troubleshoot servers, GPU systems, storage, network equipment, and other data center hardware.
• Support the physical deployment and network integration of HPC, GPU-accelerated, AI/ML, and other specialized research computing systems.
• Support high-bandwidth network connectivity and data movement for research computing and storage environments.
• Diagnose network and hardware problems and collaborate with systems administrators, researchers, University technical staff, and vendors when issues span infrastructure layers.
• Identify rack space, power, cooling, cabling, and network requirements for new equipment and coordinate implementation with appropriate University staff.
• Support hardware lifecycle activities, including deployment, upgrades, troubleshooting, repair, replacement, inventory, and vendor support.

• Maintain network and infrastructure security controls in accordance with University requirements and established practices.
• Support network segmentation, access controls, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and incident response within the position’s areas of responsibility.
• Monitor infrastructure availability, performance, and capacity and address operational…