Title: Senior Network Engineer

Employee Classification: Info Technology Specialist III

Hiring Range:up to $99,000

Agency:Virginia State University

Location: Virginia State University

Division: Office of the President

Academic Unit: Administration

Department:Technology Services

Agency Website: www.vsu.edu

Job Summary/Basic Functions

In the Office of Information Technology, the Senior Network Engineer is tasked with developing an operational services infrastructure that produces a twenty-four by seven (24/7/365) digital service delivery platform. The Senior Network Engineer will manage and develop an IP pure protocol converged network infrastructure that provides a 99.999 redundant architectural design.

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Network Technologies, BS CIS or related years of experience.

- Cisco CCNP Routing and Switching certification - CCNA - Security+ - Network+.

- At least 5 years of network engineering expertise is required.

- Thorough understanding of Cisco networking systems, Storage engineering, wide-area networking, and network virtualization expertise.

- End-user training experience.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills at all levels (senior management, technical/business-oriented project staff, users, and stakeholders).

- Ability to work independently and as a member of a team for the completion of IT projects.

- Ability to recognize, deploy, and manage complicated networking systems.

- Excellent skills to quickly analyze data and troubleshoot on the expert level.

- Validate WAN links and put in place correct methods to connect wide area networks (WAN).

- Implement and maintain Access Control Lists (ACL) and Network Address Translations (NAT).

- Maintain and configure switches with inter-switch communications, VLAN, VRF, and IP addressing to meet network requirements.

- Configure, sort out and install routing on Cisco devices.

Additional Considerations:

PREFERRED:

- Experience working in a higher education setting.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Network Technologies, BS CIS