Remote Data Center Engineer – Colorado

State of Colorado; Colorado; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Governor's Office of Information Technology in Colorado seeks a Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to provide implementation, operations, and Tier 2 support for shared enterprise network services across 20 member organizations. You will configure data center, WAN, wireless, cloud connectivity, and F5 load balancing, and maintain documentation.

The role involves deploying changes, handling incidents, onboarding applications to standard services, and contributing to enterprise network

Qualifications

• Three years of 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, F5, data center fabrics, or enterprise wireless.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting, spanning tree, and dynamic routing.
• Experience with Cisco routers and switches (Catalyst/Nexus) or equivalents.
• Ability to run and adjust automation scripts (Python, Ansible).
• Experience with network monitoring and reading device logs.
• Experience with incident, change, and request management systems such as ServiceHub or ServiceNow.
• Ability to create and maintain network diagrams and configuration documentation.
• Associate degree or equivalent network certifications.
• Demonstrated communications, teamwork, and customer service skills.
• Ability to participate in after-hours maintenance and on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot data center, WAN, wireless, cloud connectivity, and F5 load balancing infrastructure.
• Execute approved changes and maintenance; respond to monitoring alerts and incidents.
• Onboard applications and sites to standard services; complete project tasks.
• Maintain accurate network documentation and diagrams.
• Participate in enterprise network projects such as migrations, cloud connectivity builds, WAN/SD-WAN changes, wireless deployments, and hardware refreshes.
• Provide Tier 2 support for enterprise network services.
• Use monitoring tools and analytics to isolate problems; coordinate with carriers, cloud providers, and vendors.

Skills

Communications

Teamwork

Customer service

Automation scripting

Network monitoring

Incident management

Documentation

On-call readiness

Education

Associate degree or equivalent network certifications

Tools

Cisco infrastructure

Nexus switches

Arista devices

F5 BIG-IP

Python

Ansible

Monitoring tools

IPAM/DHCP/DNS

Job description

The Governor's Office of Information Technology in Colorado seeks a Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to provide implementation, operations, and Tier 2 support for shared enterprise network services across 20 member organizations. You will configure data center, WAN, wireless, cloud connectivity, and F5 load balancing, and maintain documentation.

The role involves deploying changes, handling incidents, onboarding applications to standard services, and contributing to enterprise network