Cisco Network Infrastructure Engineer; Remote from in Colorado

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This position is term limited with an anticipated end date of approximately one year from the date of hire. This position is eligible for State employee benefits and may be extended as the situation warrants. This video explains the many benefits of working at the State of Colorado on a term limited basis.

These roles will require occasional travel within the state to areas outside of your assigned geographic location. These instances will be planned in advance and expenses will be reimbursed per the existing policies and procedures.

As our new Cisco Network Infrastructure Engineer you will provide network engineering services to the statewide enterprise network and all State agencies. You will act as a subject matter expert providing design, implementation, and support of highly complex networks including LAN/WAN, Wireless, data center, and cloud technologies.

The position acts as the technical lead for the planning, testing, administrating, and implementing network solutions and establishing best practices standards. The position makes decisions and provides detailed input that affects the State core network and agencies network infrastructure.

• Designing, configuring, administering, and deploying mission critical network hardware and applications to provide network as a services (NaaS) for State agencies to include wireless, software defined access and wide area networks.
• Maximize network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems, addressing security concerns, responding to and resolving outages, scheduling upgrades, and collaborating with internal and external partners on network optimization.
• Providing subject matter expertise on network design, solution, and implementation for new network projects.
• Analyzing performance and comparative costs of products to determine the most cost effective solution.
• Providing recommendations and solutions to leadership.
• Partnering with customers and vendors to clarify rationale for technical decisions and concepts so they can understand the basis for the decisions.

• Five years experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position, to include:
• Configuring Cisco based routing and switching solutions for local campus and Wide Area Network
• Leading and planning network projects
• Cisco DNAC
• Network monitoring applications
• Developing Network topologies

Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications. Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications. If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

• Three (3) years professional engineering experience in network design,…