UVA Health System-posted 4 months ago
$130,000 - $135,000/Yr
Full-time • Manager
Newcomb Hall, VA
Hospitals

The University of Virginia seeks a Manager of Network Engineering to lead the planning, implementation, and ongoing management of its campus-wide network infrastructure. This role is critical to ensuring high-performance, secure, and scalable connectivity across UVA's academic, research, and administrative environments. The successful candidate will manage a team of network engineers and oversee the architecture, deployment, and lifecycle management of the network platforms and service orchestration systems that automate provisioning and management of network services in a complex higher education setting.

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of network engineers and support staff responsible for maintaining high availability across the institution's core and edge network infrastructure.
  • Coordinate cross-functional collaboration with IT teams, academic departments, and research units to ensure the network aligns with institutional needs.
  • Lead the transformation of UVA's core network to next-generation control and forwarding plane architectures.
  • Oversee the design, deployment, and maintenance of highly available and scalable wired and wireless network infrastructure across classrooms, labs, research centers, libraries, and residence halls.
  • Partner with the Network Management Systems team to design and implement orchestration platforms that automate deployment and lifecycle management of network services.
  • Integrate orchestration platforms with ITSM tools, CMDB, and monitoring systems.
  • Lead service ownership across Core/WAN, Edge (wired and wireless), Firewalls, Load Balancing, and Data Center.
  • Ensure network systems adhere to institutional security policies and applicable regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with Information Security to implement secure architectures and incident response procedures.
  • Lead major infrastructure and service improvement projects including campus network upgrades, wireless expansion, and cloud connectivity.
  • Engage with academic and research stakeholders to understand unique networking needs and support innovative initiatives.
  • Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and external partnerships with research networking consortia.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Four or more years of progressively responsible experience in network engineering, with at least two years in a management or team lead role.
  • Proven experience designing and operating enterprise or campus-scale networks, including both wired and wireless technologies.
  • Experience with network automation and orchestration platforms such as Cisco NSO, Ansible, or equivalent.
  • Proficiency in networking concepts (e.g., routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, DNS/DHCP, VPN, BGP, OSPF), with particular focus on routing and ISP/WAN.
  • Strong understanding of the needs of academic and research computing environments.
  • Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CCNP/CCIE, JNCIP/JNCIE).
  • Familiarity with Internet2 and Research & Education (R&E) networking standards and best practices.
  • Experience integrating networking services with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid environments.
  • ITIL or project management experience.
  • Hybrid work arrangement in accordance with UVA policy.
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