Senior Network Engineer

General

Summary:

The Senior Network Engineer is accountable for delivering reliable, secure, resilient, and continuously improving enterprise networking services that enable the University's academic, research, administrative, and student success mission.

As a senior technical member of Information Technology Services, this position designs, implements, operates, secures, and modernizes the University's enterprise networking environment. The role combines strategic engineering with hands-on technical expertise to ensure the University's physical and logical network infrastructure remains secure, scalable, highly available, and prepared to support future institutional needs.

The successful candidate is expected to maintain expertise in current and emerging networking technologies while continuously evaluating opportunities to improve reliability, security, automation, operational efficiency, and the overall customer experience.

Examples of Duties:
Primary Responsibilities Enterprise Network Engineering Design, implement, operate, and continuously improve the University's enterprise networking infrastructure supporting academic, research, residential, BMS and administrative environments.

Responsibilities include enterprise networking across the full communications stack, including physical communications infrastructure (Layer
1), campus LAN and WAN services, enterprise routing and switching, wireless networking, data center networking, Internet connectivity, and hybrid cloud networking. The position supports technologies such as OSPF, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, IPv4/IPv6, network segmentation, resiliency, and high availability while maintaining flexibility to adopt emerging enterprise networking technologies as the University's needs evolve.

Enterprise Connectivity & Security Engineer secure, resilient connectivity across campus, cloud, IoT and research environments by partnering with cybersecurity, enterprise applications, research computing, and external providers.

This includes Zero Trust networking, Network Access Control (NAC), secure remote access, firewall integration, hybrid cloud connectivity, identity-aware networking, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, UMassNet, Internet2, and other strategic technology partners.

Engineering Excellence Improve the University's networking environment through sound engineering practices, automation, lifecycle management, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Leverage scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, observability, AI-assisted operations, and engineering standards to reduce technical debt, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen service reliability.

Technical Leadership Provide technical leadership for enterprise networking initiatives by leading complex implementations, mentoring colleagues, evaluating emerging technologies, developing engineering standards, and collaborating across Information Technology Services and the broader University community.

Decision-Making Authority The Senior Network Engineer exercises independent technical judgment in the planning, design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise networking services.

Within established ITS governance, this position is expected to:
• Make technical decisions regarding enterprise networking infrastructure. Recommend engineering standards, lifecycle investments,         and modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate.
• Lead technical decision-making during major projects and critical incidents.
• Balance innovation, operational stability, security, maintainability, and customer experience when making engineering decisions.

Work Environment, Schedule &

Physical Requirements This is primarily…