Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The State of Colorado's Governor's Office of Information Technology provides technology services and innovation across state agencies. The Cisco Network Infrastructure Engineer will serve as a technical lead and subject matter expert for designing, implementing, administering, and supporting complex statewide enterprise networks, including LAN/WAN, wireless, data center, and cloud technologies. The role will establish network standards, optimize performance, resolve outages, and advise leadership, customers, and vendors on network solutions.
Responsibilities
- Designing, configuring, administering, and deploying mission critical network hardware and applications to provide network as a services (NaaS) for State agencies to include wireless, software defined access and wide area networks
- Maximize network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems, addressing security concerns, responding to and resolving outages, scheduling upgrades, and collaborating with internal and external partners on network optimization
- Providing subject matter expertise on network design, solution, and implementation for new network projects
- Analyzing performance and comparative costs of products to determine the most cost effective solution
- Providing recommendations and solutions to leadership
- Partnering with customers and vendors to clarify rationale for technical decisions and concepts so they can understand the basis for the decisions
Skills
- A minimum of five (5) years of hands-on professional experience designing, implementing, testing, and documenting complex Cisco based network solutions
- Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications
- Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications
- If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis
- This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed
- This position may require on-call duties as needed by the position
- All remote work must be performed in Colorado
- The candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position
- Expertise in Software-Defined Access, Cisco DNAC, and Catalyst technologies is highly preferable
- Three (3) years professional engineering experience in network design, architecture, and implementation
- The ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of TCP/IP, routing, switching, and Cisco products, and will work on planning and improving enterprise network solutions
- Cisco Professional and/or Expert certifications such as Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) or Cisco Certified Internet Expert (CCIE)
- Professional networking experience with wireless technologies
- Professional networking experience with Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) application
- Professional networking experience with Cisco DNAC
- Professional networking experience with data center technologies
- Professional networking experience with Software-Defined Access technologies
- Professional networking experience with scripting and automation
- Experience in Agile/Scrum Methodologies or Agile/Scrum Methodologies certification(s)
Benefits
- This position is eligible for State employee benefits and may be extended as the situation warrants.
- Remote work from anywhere in Colorado, with periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position required.
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