Network Engineer (OIT) - 130524

Are you ready to make a difference? BYU's CNC Engineering Team impacts thousands of students, faculty, and staff daily across 4 higher educational institutions! We use leading-edge systems and state-of-the-art technologies to support these universities. BYU/OIT (Office of Information Technology) offers an increasingly diverse culture, where collaboration, friendship, and integrity add to a unique environment where people really care! If you are looking for stability, meaning, and an opportunity to help students with their experiential learning, then we need you!

Job Summary 

As a Network Engineer, you will design, program, maintain, optimize, and support logical wired and wireless networks. This will include network optimization, infrastructure implementation, and network equipment configuration. You may work in any or all of the 3 layers of networks. You will design and maintain network and data center architectures, perform internetwork troubleshooting and network management, ensure network availability and admission control, and perform capacity planning, switch management, and router management. Your tasks will include requirement and vendor analysis. 

What you'll do:  

• Product support  
• Network modeling/design 
• Hardware component setup, installation, and configuration 
• Component testing 
• Maintain and increase your expertise through conferences and training sessions 
• Supervise part-time employees (if assigned)

What BYU can offer you: 

• 22 vacation days and 12 sick days accrual  
• 13 calendar holidays 
• 401k matching
• No-cost participation in a retirement savings program
• Tuition benefits for you and your family
• Excellent medical/dental benefits
• Short- and long-term disability benefits
• Paid parental and maternity leave
• Wellness programs
• On-campus parking
• Free UTA passes for you and your dependents 
• Discounts at the BYU Store and on the many events at BYU 
• ...And much, much more.

What we are looking for:  

Education and Experience:   

This position provides an opportunity for people of varying levels of skill. If you are early in your career, this could be a great opportunity for you. If you have a lot of education, experience, and skill, we'll compensate you accordingly.  The hiring department assigns different levels of pay depending on experience/education/skills and business needs.    

Early Career Professional (Level 53): Bachelor's degree or 4 years of a combination of education and engineering experience required. ($69,000 to $89,500 is the approximate starting salary range.) 

Professional (Level 54T): Bachelor's degree and two years of engineering experience required (or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience). Experience in network virtualization is required. ($83,000 to $107,500 is the approximate starting salary range.) 

Senior Professional (Level 55T): Bachelor's degree and five years of engineering experience required, or master's degree and three years of engineering experience. A minimum of two years of technical supervisory experience is required (part-time or full-time) included in the general experience above. Experience in network virtualization is required. ($96,500 to $125,000 is the approximate starting salary range.) 

Skills, abilities, or knowledge:  

You are not required to have experience and/or expertise in all areas listed below. What you don't know we can teach you. We are seeking the most qualified candidates; the more you have, the more likely you are to be selected. But don't let that stop you if you only have a few of them. Compensation will be commensurate with experience and skills.  

Core Technical Skills: 

Be conversant in two or more of the following areas: 

• Networking Core Technologies: IP internetworking, LAN switching, Optical, Dynamic IP routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, Multicast); WAN design and protocols (MPLS, TDM, DWDM); LAN technologies driving current and next-generation data center designs (core switching, load balancing, and security). 
• DNS and DHCP  
• Layer 2 technologies (Spanning Tree- PVST, Rapid-PVST, Port Aggregation- LACP/PAgP, Trunking- 802.1q, DHCP snooping, MAC address per port limiting, Access Lists- Standard and Extended) 
• Layer 2 network design
• Switching network design, fiber & copper design and installation, pathway, cabling, and documentation, USP design, communications room layout, wireless network design" 
• Layer 3 Technologies (MPLS- VPN, TE, Routing protocols, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, EVPN). 
• Ability to diagnose and resolve network issues at layers 1 through 3 
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOAP and REST web services) 
• Network architectures 
• Fiber theory 
• Data center architectures 

Related Technical Skills: 

Be conversant with most of the following areas 

• Stateful inspection systems (Firewall, SSL, VPN) 
• Firewall appliance management  
• Awareness of collaboration protocols (video, audio, sip, pstn). 
• Internetworking troubleshooting in a large-scale network environment 
• Network management, network availability, and capacity planning 
• Network Admission Control (802.1x) 
• Packet shaping 
• Software (Aruba AOS, CX IOS, Arista EOS, Wireless control system, Clearpass, Firewall PAN-OS) 
• Switch management 
• Router management 
• Load balancing 
• Operating Environments: Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, iOS, etc. 
• Client/server 
• Service development 
• Infrastructure implementation (repository implementation, monitoring, and management systems) 
• AutoCad, Visio, and Lucid 
• Governance 
• ITIL principles 
• Integration technologies 
• Application technologies 
• Enterprise technologies  

Specializations:  

• Arista Aruba network programing 
• Wireless programming 

Employee Class: Staff (Full-Time)
Work Location: Provo Campus
Desired Start Date: As soon as possible
Job Close Date: 04/14/2024
Pay Level: 53/54T/55T
Approximate starting salary: Depends on qualifications; see approximate starting salary ranges for each level in the "Education and Experience" section above
Documents required at the time of application:
Required: Cover Letter, Resume
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must hold and be worthy to hold a current temple recommend.
Brigham Young University is an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
Brigham Young University (BYU) is widely recognized not just for its world-class education, but for its deep commitment to inspired religious values. Gathered together in a Christ-centered atmosphere, BYU employees are a vital part of a community of belonging, where we value the experiences, perspectives, and talents of each individual. If you share in our devotion to faith and to excellence, we have a place for you here at BYU!