Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Texas State University operates a large, multi-campus network environment supporting academic, administrative, residential, research, and campus life services. The Senior Network Administrator will design, administer, secure, troubleshoot, and modernize enterprise wired, wireless, data center, WAN, and security infrastructure while providing technical leadership and supporting network projects and automation.
Responsibilities
- Design, administer, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise network infrastructure, including campus routing and switching, wireless, data center networks, network fabrics, WAN/SD-WAN, and related services
- Support network security and access control platforms, including Cisco ISE, network segmentation, authentication/authorization policies, and related security integrations
- Diagnose and resolve complex network incidents affecting wired, wireless, data center, WAN, and security services
- Lead and support network infrastructure projects from planning through implementation, including design, change coordination, testing, documentation, and operational handoff
- Develop and maintain network standards, diagrams, procedures, configuration templates, and operational documentation
- Monitor network performance, availability, capacity, and reliability; identify trends and recommend improvements
- Automate network operations using scripting, APIs, configuration management tools, monitoring platforms, and AI-assisted workflows where appropriate
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and vendor coordination; participate in a shared after-hours on-call rotation, currently one week every six weeks
Skills
- Five years of professional experience in network administration, network engineering, or closely related enterprise network infrastructure work
- Professional experience administering enterprise routing and switching infrastructure in a production environment
- Professional experience with dynamic routing protocols, such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, or EIGRP
- Professional experience supporting enterprise wireless networking technologies
- Professional experience supporting network security technologies, such as firewalls, IPS/IDS, network access control, Cisco ISE, segmentation, or related security platforms
- Experience supporting data center network infrastructure
- Experience with network fabric technologies, such as EVPN/VXLAN, Cisco SDA, ACI, virtualized routing, or comparable fabric-based architectures
- Experience supporting MPLS, VRF, SD-WAN, or complex WAN routing environments
- Experience with Cisco ISE, NAC, 802.1X, device profiling, guest access, posture, or network segmentation
- Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, APIs, Git, configuration management systems, or similar tools
- Experience working in higher education, government, large enterprise, healthcare, or another complex multi-site environment
- Current or prior network-related certifications, such as CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, CWNP, Aruba, Ruckus, Fortinet, Palo Alto, or comparable credentials
Benefits
- Limited hybrid work may be available after onboarding, typically up to one day per week, subject to operational needs and supervisor approval.
- This position is eligible for hybrid or remote work opportunities, subject to university policy and departmental needs.
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