Infrastructure Engineer

Cleveland Metropolitan School District; United States; On-site; USD 69,000 - 93,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to serve as the District's senior hands-on engineer for enterprise network and cloud infrastructure. You will design, implement, operate, and troubleshoot the Cisco Meraki campus and wireless estate, data center and administrative network, SD-WAN, and the Azure environment hosting the majority of District workloads.

As an independent contributor, you will implement standards, propose design alternatives with

Qualifications

• Experience engineering enterprise network and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to work independently on complex problems.
• Knowledge of Cisco Meraki and SD-WAN.
• Experience with Windows Server/AD and DNS.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, deploy, and maintain the District's Networking estate: security appliances, NextGen L7 functions, switches, and wireless across all sites.
• Maintain Layer 3 services at site edge (DHCP, relay, inter-VLAN routing).
• Engineer and support data center and administrative network (OSPF/BGP, QoS, segmentation).
• Support SD-WAN and WAN transport, site turn-ups, and carrier failover.

Skills

Networking

Cisco Meraki

Azure

VMware

Active Directory

DNS

SD-WAN

Tools

VMware vSphere

Active Directory

DNS

SMTP relay

Azure

Job description

ABOUT CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students.

CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.

Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.

BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES

The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation.

The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school.

BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Location: Administration or As Assigned

Reports to: Infrastructure Solutions Architect

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Band: 7

Compensation: $ 68,891.00 - $ 93,003.00

The Infrastructure Engineer is the District's senior hands-on engineer for enterprise network and cloud infrastructure. Reporting to the Infrastructure Solutions Architect (ISA), the Engineer builds, configures, operates, and troubleshoots the platforms that carry every instructional and operational system in the District - the Cisco Meraki campus and wireless estate across all school sites, the data center and administrative network, the District's SD-WAN and carrier transport, and the network foundation of the Azure environment that now hosts the majority of District workloads.

Where the ISA sets architecture, standards, and roadmap, the Engineer implements those standards and owns day-to-day engineering outcomes: designs are turned into working configurations, changes are planned and executed within approved windows, and faults are isolated and resolved. The Engineer is expected to work independently on complex problems, to propose design alternatives back to the ISA with supporting analysis, and to serve as the District's deepest source of operational knowledge on the network estate.

As a secondary assignment, the Engineer serves as a backup and day-to-day implementer on the District's endpoint and device management platforms, and supports the District's remaining on-premises platform services - VMware vSphere, Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, file, print, and SMTP relay as legacy services, while continuing migration to Azure equivalents.

This is an individual contributor role. The Engineer provides technical guidance and mentorship to Specialists, Administrators, and building technicians, but does not carry supervisory responsibility; day-to-day task assignment and performance management sit with the ISA.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engineer, configure, deploy, and maintain the District's Networking estate: security appliances and their NextGen Layer 7 functions, Layer 3 distribution and Layer 2 access switches, and wireless access points across all school sites.
• Maintain Layer 3 services delivered at the site edge, including DHCP scopes, relay, and inter-VLAN routing hosted on the Layer 3 switches at each building.
• Engineer and support the data center and administrative network, including data center switching and routing platforms (OSPF/BGP as deployed), QoS, and network segmentation.
• Support the District's SD-WAN and WAN transport, site turn-ups, path policy, failover behavior, and carrier faul