Wireless Network Automations Engineer

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POSITION SPECIFICS

Penn State IT isseekinga highly motivated
Wireless Automation Engineer
to join the ENCS Wireless team. This position will play a critical role in designing, automating, and operating Penn State’s next-generation wireless platform built on Juniper Mist.

Penn State is currently undergoing a multi-year transformation from Aruba wireless infrastructure to a Juniper Mist cloud-managed wireless platform across campuses and facilities statewide. This position will help accelerate and operationalizethat transitionthrough automation, telemetry, observability, and modern network engineering practices.

The successful candidate will focus on developing scalable automation, telemetry-driven operations, and modern network engineering practices to improve the reliability, consistency, and operational maturity of one of higher education’s largest enterprise wireless environments.

This role combines enterprise wireless engineering with software development, automation, analytics, and observability. The engineer will help drive Penn State’s transition toward proactive, data-driven wireless operations through automation, API integrations, configuration-as-code, and intelligent monitoring workflows.

This position works in close partnership with the Wireless Technical Lead and Wireless Manager.

While the Technical Lead provides architectural and technical leadership for the wireless platform, this role focuses on automation engineering, operational tooling, telemetry integration, and platform reliability.

While the primary focus of this position is wireless automation engineering and operational modernization, the successful candidate is also expected tomaintaina strong understanding of enterprise wireless networking fundamentals andparticipateas a member of the wireless engineering team, including participation in the team’s on-call rotation.

Penn Stateoperatesone of the largest higher education networking environments in the country, supporting academic, research, healthcare, residential, and athletic environments across the Commonwealth.

LOCATION

This position follows a hybrid work model and may require periodic on-site participation for wireless deployments, troubleshooting, testing, meetings, and operational support activities across Penn State locations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Wireless Automation & Engineering

• Design, develop, andmaintainautomation workflows for wireless provisioning, configuration management, and large-scale deployments

• Develop reusable automation frameworks and configuration templates for Juniper Mist wireless environments

• Implement configuration-as-code and version-controlled deployment methodologies

• Automate operational tasks including validation, auditing, diagnostics, and recovery workflows

Telemetry, Observability & Analytics

• Develop telemetry pipelines and operational dashboardsleveraging
  
  Mist APIs, RADIUS data, and wireless performance metrics

• Integrate SLE metrics, authentication telemetry, and network health data into enterprise monitoring and alerting platforms

• Build analytics and reporting solutions to improve visibility into user experience, onboarding success, and wireless reliability

• identifyoperational trends and develop proactive remediation strategies using telemetry and automation

Platform Reliability & Operations

• Improve wireless service resilience, operational consistency, and change reliability through automation and standardizatio

• Support enterprise wireless architecture, deployment standards, and lifecycle strategies

• Participate in troubleshooting complex wireless and…