Network Engineer II

University of Texas at Dallas•Richardson, TX

57d•$80,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This position is responsible for designing, provisioning, deploying, administering, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, upgrading and patching of University's high performance computational (HPC) networks and related services. The engineer will interact with the HPC engineering team and demonstrate customer service mindset and adapt with agility to different work styles, conï¬ict resolution techniques, and practice professional office etiquette. The engineer must be self-motivated and stay abreast of applicable new technologies and technical methodologies to advance productivity and career paths. The engineer will have a comprehensive understanding of HPC solutions, network architectures, and Linux based networking services. The engineer will have additional responsibility to document processes, procedures, system conï¬gurations, services and to place conï¬guration information within our conï¬guration management systems. This is a mid-level experienced network engineer role on the Enterprise Network Service(s) team but will be collaborating with and support our HPC network and data center environments. This engineer must have demonstrated a consultative customer service attitude in prior roles in similar organizations. Primary responsibilities include managing the installation and support of network communications including HPC scale LAN/WAN systems. This engineer ensures network services are secure, available, and reliable. The applicant must have broad industry knowledge of hardware and software services involved in building and operating HPC networking environments.

Requirements

Associate's degree and two (2) years of related experience or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science degree with minimum 5 years of experience working directly and experience with complex network environments.
Experience working with regional and national education and research network providers such as LEARN and Intenet2
Cisco Certiï¬ed (CCENT OR CCNA) or Juniper Certiï¬ed (JNCIA-Junos)
At least 4 years of Juniper (JunOS) experience including Tier 3 senior level support.
Extensive experience in the following areas - enterprise networking equipment, ï¬rewalls, load balancers, gateways, data and voice convergence, video services.
Extensive technical knowledge and experience of managing and maintaining large-scale, highly available, Internet facing networks
Experience with Network Access Control solutions
Wide-ranging experience troubleshooting multi-tier Internet applications platforms, particularly for web applications and streaming
Deep understanding of network protocols and their applications and characteristic behaviors like IPv4/6, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, IPSEC, STP, QOS and VRRP
Experience implementing pragmatic network security and audit.
Good understanding of network conï¬guration and troubleshooting on a range of Windows and Linux operating systems.
DevOps experience (Python, Ansible, Puppet)
Extensive Experience in supporting and operating 1Gbps - 100Gbps Ethernet and 56Gbps - 200 Gbps Inï¬niband HPC network interconnects.
Software Deï¬ned Networking (SDN)
Ability to assess network efficiencies and make adjustments/recommendations for improvement.
Good understanding of various operating systems, OS vulnerabilities and patching, third party application vulnerabilities and patching.
Good troubleshooting methodology and awareness of industry standards.
Good technical and problem-solving skills, good communication skills, works well with limited supervision
Ideal candidate should also have experience/knowledge in Network design, Application and/or Network Firewalls Juniper Firewall Filter design and implementation, Network Access Control (NAC) implementation and conï¬guration, VPN installation/conï¬guration, Diagraming and documentation, Project planning, Capacity planning, Switch installation /conï¬guration, VPN client conï¬guration, Procedure development, VPN design, Technology refresh planning, Router installation/ conï¬guration, VLAN planning, Network Trouble shooting, Network performance monitoring, LAN/WAN support response, and Project budgets.

Responsibilities

Documentation, reports, and network topology diagram building describing state of current and future network environments
Responds to network issues, incidents, change requests, and other support tickets. Level 2 support experience at scale of 1 to 3 with 3 being a senior specialist.
Support design and perform deployment of networks supporting HPC in data center
Configuration and operation of firewalls, switches, routers, etc. from vendors like Dell, Cisco, Juniper, Ciena, etc.
Advanced installation, configuration, updating,networking, performance monitoring and troubleshooting of HPC Systems via open source solutions.
Ability to develop, troubleshoot, modify, catalog,document and update scripts.
Build and operate secure networks to balance performance and availability and security
Responsibilities include Configures, tests,secures, and maintains LAN/WAN equipment and related services.
Identifies, diagnoses, and resolves network problems.
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all implemented networks.
Analyze and rectify complex faults on the network to meet defined service levels.
Support network investigation/performance routines to ensure network availability.
Perform complex configuration changes. Maintain and support the LAN/WAN environment.
Assist in the coaching and technical assessment of the team to aid development.
Obtain and maintain required certifications.
Evaluate and test new technology solutions and document findings.