Network Engineer: Perimeter, Security & Backup

Alpine School District; American Fork (UT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 102,000; Part time

Job summary

Alpine School District seeks a Network Engineer to own design, security, and administration of the district network perimeter, storage, and backup infrastructure. You will manage Palo Alto firewalls, ContentKeeper filtering, and Aruba-based switching/wireless, while collaborating with DevOps for infrastructure solutions.

The role includes storage management with Veeam/ExaGrid/Pure Storage, VMware virtualization duties with Systems Engineering, and Tier 3 escalation support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• Equivalent professional experience in network engineering or infrastructure administration will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Hands‑on experience administering enterprise firewalls, switching/routing, SAN storage, and backup platforms in an enterprise or district environment.
• Experience with virtualization platforms and collaborating with software/development teams on infrastructure or DevOps initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Administer and tune next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto), including security policy, threat prevention, and rule-base optimization.
• Administer web content filtering (ContentKeeper) to enforce district acceptable-use and compliance requirements.
• Design and maintain network segmentation and east/west traffic control using ACLs and Pensando-based policy enforcement built into the district's Aruba CX 10000 switches.
• Design, configure, and maintain enterprise switching and routing infrastructure (Aruba) across the district WAN and site-level LANs.
• Monitor and troubleshoot district-wide and site-level network performance, availability, and capacity.
• Oversee the district's Aruba wireless network, including design, deployment, and ongoing performance tuning.
• Manage backup infrastructure and disaster recovery operations using Veeam and ExaGrid, including testing and restoration validation.
• Administer SAN storage on Pure Storage arrays (iSCSI), including provisioning, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Share responsibility for district server and VMware virtualization administration (vSphere/vCenter) with the Systems Engineering team.
• Install, configure, and maintain network-based servers and their associated storage to ensure availability of resources for district personnel.
• Partner with Software Engineers on DevOps initiatives, including infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and environment provisioning.
• Assist in architecting infrastructure solutions for new systems and services, analyzing impact on existing network and server resources.
• Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting and escalation support for onsite technicians and site-level IT staff on complex network and infrastructure issues.
• Serve as a technical resource to department and district staff on active or planned network and infrastructure projects.
• Develop and maintain internal documentation, standard operating procedures, and network diagrams for supported systems.
• Provide training and technical guidance to technical staff on deployment methods, troubleshooting, and best practices.
• Write test plans, integration plans, and deployment guides for new technologies and services.
• Research current and emerging network, security, and infrastructure technologies, and recommend improvements.
• Assist in maintaining support contracts for supported network and infrastructure systems.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Firewall administration

Network security

ACLs policy

Aruba network

VMware virtualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology / CS / Networking

Equivalent professional experience considered

Tools

Palo Alto

ContentKeeper

Aruba Central

Aruba CX 10000 switches

Veeam

ExaGrid

Pure Storage iSCSI

VMware vSphere

vCenter

Job description

Alpine School District seeks a Network Engineer to own design, security, and administration of the district network perimeter, storage, and backup infrastructure. You will manage Palo Alto firewalls, ContentKeeper filtering, and Aruba-based switching/wireless, while collaborating with DevOps for infrastructure solutions.

The role includes storage management with Veeam/ExaGrid/Pure Storage, VMware virtualization duties with Systems Engineering, and Tier 3 escalation support.