Network Engineer II

Posting Details

• Posting Number: S06688P
• Position Title:
  
  Network Engineer II
• Functional
  
  Title:
  
  Enterprise Research Network Engineer II
• Department:
  High Performance Computing
• Salary Range:
  Up to $80,000 Dependent on Qualifications
• Pay Basis:
  Monthly
• Position Status:
  Regular full-time
• Location:
  
  Richardson
• Posting Open Date: 10/29/2025
• Open Until Filled:
  Yes
• Desired
  
  Start Date:
  
  11/24/2025

This position is responsible for designing, provisioning, deploying, administering, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, upgrading and patching of University’s high performance computational (HPC) networks and related services. The engineer will interact with the HPC engineering team and demonstrate customer service mindset and adapt with agility to different work styles, conflict resolution techniques, and practice professional office etiquette. The engineer must be self-motivated and stay abreast of applicable new technologies and technical methodologies to advance productivity and career paths.

The engineer will have a comprehensive understanding of HPC solutions, network architectures, and Linux based networking services. The engineer will have additional responsibility to document processes, procedures, system configurations, services and to place configuration information within our configuration management systems. This is a mid-level experienced network engineer role on the Enterprise Network Service(s) team but will be collaborating with and support our HPC network and data center environments.

This engineer must have demonstrated a consultative customer service attitude in prior roles in similar organizations. Primary responsibilities include managing the installation and support of network communications including HPC scale LAN/WAN systems. This engineer ensures network services are secure, available, and reliable. The applicant must have broad industry knowledge of hardware and software services involved in building and operating HPC networking environments.

Associate's degree and two (2) years of related experience or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.

• Bachelor of Science degree with minimum 5 years of experience working directly and experience with complex network environments.
• Experience working with regional and national education and research network providers such as LEARN and Internet2
• Cisco Certified (CCENT OR CCNA) or Juniper Certified (JNCIA-Junos)
• At least 4 years of Juniper (JunOS) experience including Tier 3 senior level support.
• Extensive experience in enterprise networking equipment, firewalls, load balancers, gateways, data and voice convergence, video services.
• Extensive technical knowledge and experience of managing and maintaining large-scale, highly available, Internet facing networks
• Experience with Network Access Control solutions
• Wide-ranging experience troubleshooting multi-tier Internet applications platforms, particularly for web applications and streaming
• Deep understanding of network protocols and their applications and characteristic behaviors like IPv4/6, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, IPSEC, STP, QOS and VRRP
• Experience implementing pragmatic network security and audit.
• Good understanding of network configuration and troubleshooting on a range of Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Dev Ops experience (Python, Ansible, Puppet)
• Extensive experience in supporting and operating 1
  
  Gbps - 100
  
  Gbps Ethernet and 56
  
  Gbps - 200 Gbps Infiniband HPC network interconnects.
• Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Ability to assess network efficiencies and make adjustments/recommendations for improvement.
• Good understanding of various operating systems, OS vulnerabilities and patching, third party application vulnerabilities and patching.
• Good troubleshooting methodology and awareness of industry standards.
• Good technical and problem-solving skills, good communication skills, works well with limited supervision

To the extent this position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Section 117.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the critical infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired and to continue to be employed in the position.

• Documentation, reports, and network topology diagram building describing state of current and future network environments
• Responds to network issues, incidents, change requests, and other support tickets. Level 2
• Support experience at scale of 1 to 3 with 3 being a senior specialist.
• Support design and perform deployment of networks supporting HPC in data center
• Configuration and operation of firewalls, switches, routers, etc. from vendors like Dell, Cisco, Juniper, Ciena, etc.
• Advanced installation, configuration, updating, networking, performance monitoring and troubleshooting of HPC Systems via open source…