Director of Network Infrastructure and Services

Title: Director of Network Infrastructure and Services

Agency: VCCS-System Office

Location: Chesterfield - 041

FLSA: Exempt

Hiring Range: $130,000 - $150,000

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

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Virginia's community colleges have a 50-year track record of educational excellence and innovation to serve the needs of our citizens and strengthen the Commonwealth’s economy. When Virginia’s General Assembly established the Virginia Community College System in 1966, the need for a comprehensive system was well known. Over the two decades after the end of World War II, leaders in government, business, professional sectors, and academia had called for a new approach to providing educational opportunity.

A key concern was Virginia's ability to develop a skilled and knowledgeable workforce to expand the state's economy. Today our community colleges give every Virginian the opportunity to gain a quality education. With 23 colleges on 40 campuses located throughout the state, Virginia's Community Colleges are committed to serving Virginia families, helping them acquire the knowledge and skills to seize the opportunities of today and tomorrow.

The chief objective of the Director is to provide day-to-day leadership, administration, and support for all activities associated with maintaining and operating the system‑wide shared VCCS Information Technology Infrastructure. The activities managed by this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

While this position is not a forward-facing role, it is responsible for the core infrastructure on which the entire VCCS depends for all operations across the organization as a whole. It is therefore expected that the employee will be able to work on a fully remote basis, planning time appropriately and going where needed throughout the VCCS in order to ensure the successful operation of the System Office and all colleges and satellite locations in Virginia.

The employee will attend all required meetings, either in person or remotely as dictated by current circumstances. The employee will be generally available during normal work hours but will be fully prepared to routinely work as needed outside of those hours in order to maintain the 24x7 service required by the VCCS.

Significant understanding and management capability related to the effective planning, implementation, and maintenance of a highly technical and complex information technology network infrastructure. Must be detail-oriented and have strong leadership, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, in addition to the following.

• Juniper and Cisco Routers
• Cisco ACI and Juniper Networks
• BGP and OSPF routing protocols
• QoS
• PRTG Network Monitor
• Routing and Switching
• VLANs
• Network Cabling
• Sub-netting, NIC-bonding
• TCP/IP, IPv4, 1
  
  Pv6
• Juniper and Cisco switches
• Blue Cat DNS and DHCP
• WLAN
• Wireshark
• Palo Alto Firewalls/Panorama
• Aruba Clear Pass RADIUS and TACACS

• Current trends and advancements in the telecommunications and Internet industries, hyper-converged platforms, including server, storage, and networking technologies
• Documentation including white papers, models, guidelines, user guides, procedures, test plans, implementation plans, etc.
• ITIL principles, service lifecycle (strategy, design, transition, operation, and continual improvement),…