Cisco Network Infrastructure Engineer; Remote from

Overview

Department Information

Together, we innovate for a stronger Colorado. The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides challenging and diverse work to support agencies, customers and Coloradans. We focus on improving lives through innovation and collaboration, building one of the nation’s leading government IT organizations by reimagining support for agencies, creating first-of-their-kind applications, and fostering an inclusive, collaborative culture. Join us in providing equitable access to services.

Description Of Job: TERM LIMITED POSITION. This position is term limited with an anticipated end date of approximately two years from the date of hire. This position is eligible for State employee benefits and may be extended as warranted. This video explains the many benefits of working at the State of Colorado on a term limited basis.

Important Note: Review your application to ensure completion. For the most equitable applicant experience, OIT’s hiring team considers only the contents of your application to review your qualifications. Do not include attachments (such as resume or cover letter) with your application as these items are not used by OIT’s hiring team.

• As our new Cisco Network Infrastructure Engineer, provide network engineering services to the statewide enterprise network and all State agencies. Act as a subject matter expert providing design, implementation, and support of highly complex networks including LAN/WAN, Wireless, data center, and cloud technologies.
• Serve as the technical lead for planning, testing, administering, and implementing network solutions and establishing best practices standards. Make decisions and provide input that affects the State core network and agencies' network infrastructure.
• Perform network architecture design and implementation affecting all supported agencies and locations across Colorado. Establish network technology standards to be used within the State network infrastructure. Interface with network operations, security operations, and telecommunications teams to provide network services to customers. Support the strategic interface to other entities, including state, federal, local agencies; private sector groups; and the public.
• Day-to-day tasks: Designing, configuring, administering, and deploying mission-critical network hardware and applications to provide network as a service (NaaS) for State agencies, including wireless, software-defined access, and wide area networks.
• Maximize network performance by monitoring and troubleshooting, addressing security concerns, resolving outages, scheduling upgrades, and collaborating with internal and external partners on network optimization.
• Provide subject matter expertise on network design, solution, and implementation for new network projects.
• Analyze performance and cost of products to determine the most cost-effective solution.
• Provide recommendations and solutions to leadership. Partner with customers and vendors to clarify rationale for technical decisions so they understand the basis for the decisions.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights

A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While most salary offers are within the posted range, offers may be above or below the range based on this analysis.

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of five (5) years of hands-on professional experience designing, implementing, testing, and documenting complex Cisco-based network solutions.
• Expertise in Software-Defined Access, Cisco DNAC, and Catalyst technologies is highly preferable.

Substitutions

• Additional education substitutes 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 credited 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (3) years professional engineering experience in network design, architecture, and implementation.
• Thorough understanding of TCP/IP, routing, switching, and Cisco products; experience planning and improving enterprise network solutions.
• Cisco Professional and/or Expert certifications (e.g., CCNP or CCIE).
• Professional networking experience with wireless technologies, Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE), Cisco DNAC, data center technologies, Software-Defined Access, scripting and automation.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies or related…