IT Cloud Engineer Network

company•City of Rochester, NY

6d•$79,068 - $198,168

About The Position

This hands-on network engineering role provides vision, strategy, functionality, and technology solutions for creating and maintaining network platforms across public and private cloud infrastructure. It involves designing flexible platforms that deliver features and services compatible with leading providers while allowing legacy systems to interact securely when needed. The role supports technology research, evaluation, development, and delivery throughout infrastructure deployment lifecycles. The engineer works directly with Information Technology teams to guide deployment of technologies such as PaaS, SaaS, hosted, and on-premises subscriptions. These solutions aim to provide flexible, secure, on-demand cloud-like services, improve resiliency, and reduce costs while maintaining a secure and flexible environment. The position emphasizes traditional enterprise network engineering, including the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of large-scale Cisco and/or Arista environments and related networking technologies. Candidates with a strong enterprise networking and operations foundation are sought; cloud networking experience is valuable. The job includes four classification levels with progressively broader technical expertise, independence, responsibility, leadership, and mentoring expectations. New hires are placed at the level suited to their experience, credentials, and skills. The role requires reliable attendance, adherence to corporate values and privacy policies, and may include on-call rotation support and travel across the enterprise.

Requirements

Level I: Seven cumulative years of related work experience in lieu of a degree, or an associate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field plus four years of related experience; a bachelor's degree is preferred.
Awareness of security, compliance, and audit policies and procedures.
Experience researching, designing, and implementing assigned technologies.
Infrastructure operations and infrastructure project delivery experience.
Scripting and automation experience.
Strong communication skills.
Understanding of cloud computing infrastructure and concepts.
Knowledge of cloud and/or on-premises integration, including integrating disparate systems.
Level I: Intermediate knowledge of at least three listed concepts or tools: Azure, AWS, GCP, Cisco, Arista, SD-WAN, ForeScout, network emulation such as GNS3, next-generation firewalls such as Palo Alto, load balancers such as F5, wireless networking, network orchestration such as Arista CloudVision, Terraform or related IaC tools, Ansible or related configuration management, Nutanix or similar hyperconverged technology, VMware ESXi or similar virtualization, YAML or similar markup, JSON, REST APIs, or GitHub or a related Git repository.
Level II and above: Intermediate knowledge of at least four listed concepts or tools.
Level II and above: Intermediate infrastructure operations and infrastructure project delivery experience.
Level II and above: Strong technical documentation ability.
Level II and above: Experience managing and optimizing IT computing resources.
Level II and above: Business maturity, confidentiality, and sound judgment.
Level II and above: Strong scripting and automation experience.
Level II and above: Intermediate knowledge of disaster recovery and security, compliance, and audit policies and procedures.
Level III and above: Advanced knowledge of at least four listed concepts or tools.
Level III and above: Advanced understanding of IT infrastructure disaster recovery procedures.
Level III and above: Ability to provide internal mentorship within the team.
Level III and above: Professional certification in a job-related technology.
Level III and above: Strategic vision aligned with business objectives.
Level IV: Advanced knowledge of at least five listed concepts or tools.
Level IV: Demonstrated competence in team and technical leadership, facilitation, and project leadership.
Level IV: Extensive knowledge of hybrid cloud environments.
Level IV: Proven ability to mentor peers.
Ability to orally communicate.
Ability to work in a traditional office environment under fluorescent lighting and sit at a desk viewing a computer and using a keyboard and mouse for three or more hours at a time.
Ability to travel across the enterprise and work in a home office for continuous periods for business continuity.
Ability to provide on-call rotation support.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree (Level I).

Responsibilities

Act as a high-level escalation tier for operational support in assigned technical areas.
Conduct proof-of-concept testing in a lab environment.
Create infrastructure design documents for production deployments.
Create, update, and maintain documentation supporting technology standards.
Deploy new technology to production environments.
Design infrastructure solutions that support business requirements.
Ensure assigned technologies align with business needs.
Research and implement hybrid cloud technology.
Support high-level strategy for the enterprise server environment.
Work with business stakeholders to gather IT infrastructure requirements.
Work with technology vendors and technical subject-matter experts to produce corporate standards for assigned technology areas.
Integrate multiple systems and technologies.
Act as a primary engineer for assigned technology areas at Level II and above.
Maintain a performant and optimized infrastructure environment at Level II and above.
Contribute to budgets, expenditures, and enterprise strategy for assigned technology areas at Level II and above.
Assist with the RFI/RFP process at Level II and above.
Mentor lower-level engineers at Level III and above.
Establish business justifications for purchases in assigned technology areas at Level III and above.
Focus on automation for job-related tasks and contribute significantly to automation workflows at Level III and above.
Perform system analysis and capacity planning of computing assets at Level III and above.
Act as the primary subject-matter expert for assigned technology areas at Level III and above.
Stay current with leading hybrid cloud technology for assigned areas at Level III and above.
Act as a trusted advisor to management at Level IV.
Emphasize technology cost optimization when designing solutions at Level IV.
Mentor peers internally at Level IV.
Lead business-critical IT infrastructure projects and internal strategic efforts, collaborating with peers, at Level IV.
Demonstrate interpersonal skills and act as a team player.
Maintain reliable attendance, exercise good judgment and personal accountability, and uphold company values, conduct standards, and member privacy policies.
Perform other functions as assigned by management.
Provide on-call rotation support and travel across the enterprise as required.