Senior Network Engineer, Campus IT Infrastructure

University of Maryland; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 146,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Maryland, College Park, Division of Information Technology is seeking a senior Network Engineer to design, deploy, and support wired and wireless infrastructure. You will manage lifecycle activities for routers, switches, VPNs, firewalls, VoIP, and monitoring systems while maintaining up-to-date docs and runbooks.

You will present technical designs to mixed audiences, mentor staff, and participate in on-call rotations with possible after-hours work.

Qualifications

• Education required: Bachelor's degree; four years IT infra ops exp; strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Master of Science in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related field highly desired.
• Hands-on experience in large-scale IT development and operations, and in higher education settings.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, and implement wired and wireless network infrastructure improvements and capabilities.
• Design, develop, and support network infrastructure including routers, switches, VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless systems.
• Maintain up-to-date network documentation, runbooks, and diagrams.

Skills

IP routing

Ethernet switching

Wireless

VOIP

QoS

Network security

Network management

Troubleshooting

Presentation skills

Office 365 / Google Workspace

Education

Master's degree (EE/CE/CS/IT or related)

Bachelor's degree

Tools

HPE Aruba routers

Cisco switches

Palo Alto Firewalls

A10 load balancers

Infoblox DDI

PRTG

Nagios

Grafana

Python

Ansible

Job description

The University of Maryland, College Park, Division of Information Technology is seeking a senior Network Engineer to design, deploy, and support wired and wireless infrastructure. You will manage lifecycle activities for routers, switches, VPNs, firewalls, VoIP, and monitoring systems while maintaining up-to-date docs and runbooks.

You will present technical designs to mixed audiences, mentor staff, and participate in on-call rotations with possible after-hours work.