Senior Network Engineer, University Information Services - Georgetown University

Company: Georgetown Univerisity
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Located in a historic neighborhood in the nation's capital, Georgetown offers rigorous academic programs, a global perspective, exciting ways to take advantage of Washington, D.C., and a commitment to social justice. Our community is a tight knit group of remarkable individuals interested in intellectual inquiry and making a difference in the world.
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Senior Network Engineer, University Information Services - Georgetown University
Job Overview
The Senior Network Engineer leads the firewall design, configuration, and troubleshooting for the network backbone and edge network engineering team. They are responsible for the design, planning, scalability, deployment, performance, and operation of our 9,000-node wireless network; and drives our security strategy and advances our WiFi operations for all Georgetown campuses - including Main, Medical, Law, and offices in DC, as well as our network equipment for our location in Doha, Qatar.
The Network Operations and Engineering (INO) has primary responsibility for the engineering design, implementation, and operational maintenance of the University's $50M network, and is responsible for ensuring all network components are at consistent releases of software and firmware and have been patched for security. Its team supports our software and hardware networks, daily functions, ticketing, on-call, troubleshooting, maintenance, and installation and management of network and information security infrastructure including routers, switches, firewalls, and VPNs. They also manage network services including DHCP, firewall rules, and network access control lists (ACLs). The Senior Network Engineer works closely and in collaboration with the Information Security Office.
The INO team manages and provides support for the University's integrated network (wired, wireless, data, telecommunications), data center production control for academic and administrative processing, systems management of enterprise server infrastructure, and facilities infrastructure project management.
To achieve this goal, NCS focuses on the following strategies:

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  reduce system downtime and increase operating efficiencies by ensuring that management of all systems and services follow defined standards and operating procedures and that all problems are resolved in a timely manner
  
  
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  prioritizing activities using a goal-driven process that, in combination with external benchmarking and research, attempts to maximize the mapping of our team's activities to user-prioritized, business goals (i.e., we strive to work on the highest value activities while saying 'no' to lower value distractions)
  
  
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  increasing collaboration at all levels (e.g. within and between teams, with other UIS divisions, and with our user communities)
  
  
  The Senior Network Engineer manages the Georgetown University enterprise network, which includes university capital and non-capital assets (switches, routers, gateways, cabling, servers, and software licenses) that exceed $40M in value.
  As well, they manage the critical enterprise network and voice systems and carries a cell phone for managing and participating in the resolution, communication, and escalation of system events and outages; and works hours in the early mornings and late evenings to accommodate the requirements of the change management procedures.
  Work Interactions
  Reporting to the Senior Engineer Manager, the Senior Network Engineer is accountable to the AVP, Systems Engineering and Operations, and works directly with network managers at other schools, technical and non-technical staff within UIS, and our customers, typically department heads and their administrators.
  Qualifications
  
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    Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university. [note: equivalent field experience will be considered in lieu of educational requirement]
    
    
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    15+ years of network engineering experience
    
    
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    Experience in selecting, testing, and deploying networking hardware and software
    
    
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    Experience with ISP and Internet-scale networking, optical/DWDM, CDN, edge network security
    
    
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    Background in building and operating large-scale backbone and edge networks
    
    
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    Ability to understand scripts and programs for automation, tools, frameworks, dashboards, and alarms (common uses: Python, Go)
    
    
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    Expert level knowledge in large-scale IP networking technologies and protocols such as MP-BGP, OSPF, ISIS, VRF, VxLAN, EVPN, QoS, GRE, IPSEC, DNS, and MACsec
    
    
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    Experience with using software development to operate or deploy a large network.
    
    
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    5+ years of experience using Ansible, Python, YAML, or NETCONF/ YANG
    
    
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    Proficiency with various networking vendors - for example, Palo Alto and Cisco
    
    
    Preferred qualifications
    
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      Cisco CCNP or CCIE certification
      
      
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      Experience managing voice systems PBX and IP telephony
      
      
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      Experience with tools such as Cisco Prime, Nagios, and SolarWinds
      
      
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      Experience in Systems Programming/Development
      
      
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      Georgetown University offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, retirement savings, tuition assistance, work-life balance benefits, employee discounts and an array of voluntary insurance options. You can learn more about benefits and eligibility on the Department of Human Resources website (https://benefits.georgetown.edu/staff/enrolling/) .
      The Georgetown University community is committed to our public health approach and the important role that vaccines play in contributing to the safety of our University and our broader communities. Georgetown University requires students, faculty, staff and visitors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot when eligible, or to have an approved medical or religious exemption. This requirement applies to all faculty and staff, including teleworking employees. Complete details and updates can be found in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Center (https://www.georgetown.edu/coronavirus/) .

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