Data Center & Cloud Networking Engineer

State of Colorado; Colorado; Remote; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pastoral benefits

Job summary

The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) in Colorado is hiring a Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to provide implementation, operations, and Tier 2 support for shared enterprise network services used by 20 member organizations. You will configure data center, WAN, wireless, cloud connectivity, and F5 load balancing infrastructure, manage changes, and maintain accurate documentation.

Responsibilities include supporting data center switches/fabric, WAN/SD-WAN edge devices, cloud

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years' hands-on experience supporting enterprise or service-provider network infrastructure.
• 2+ years configuring routing and switching for data center, campus, or WAN
• 1+ year with cloud networking (AWS/Azure/Google), F5 BIG-IP, data center fabrics, or enterprise wireless
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting, spanning tree, and dynamic routing (OSPF/BGP)
• Experience with Cisco routers/switches (Catalyst/Nexus) or equivalent
• Ability to run and modify automation scripts (Python/Ansible)
• Experience with network monitoring and diagnostic tools and reading device logs
• Experience with incident/change/request management systems (ServiceHub/ServiceNow)
• Ability to create and maintain network diagrams and documentation
• Associate degree or equivalent network certifications
• Strong communication, teamwork, and customer-service skills
• Ability to participate in after-hours maintenance and on-call rotation

Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, monitor, maintain data center, WAN, wireless, cloud connectivity, and F5 load balancing infrastructure.
• Execute changes during maintenance windows and perform pre/post-change validation.
• Provide Tier 2 support for enterprise network services to member organizations.
• Maintain network diagrams, inventories, IP addresses, circuit records, and certificate inventories.
• Contribute to enterprise network projects like data center migrations and cloud connectivity builds.

Skills

Network troubleshooting

TCP/IP

BGP/OSPF

WAN/SD-WAN

Automation scripting

Incident management

Network documentation

Communication skills

Education

Associate degree or equivalent certs

Tools

Cisco routers/switches

F5 BIG-IP

Wi-Fi/WLAN

Monitoring tools

Python/Ansible

Job description

The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) in Colorado is hiring a Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to provide implementation, operations, and Tier 2 support for shared enterprise network services used by 20 member organizations. You will configure data center, WAN, wireless, cloud connectivity, and F5 load balancing infrastructure, manage changes, and maintain accurate documentation.

Responsibilities include supporting data center switches/fabric, WAN/SD-WAN edge devices, cloud