Senior Network Engineer

Position Title

Senior Network Engineer

Olympia

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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…