NETWORK SPECIALIST

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state, and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. By being deeply invested in our work, showing compassion in our interactions, and embodying the spirit of a team player, each member contributes to a thriving community. UW is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff; your experiences, perspectives, and unique identities will be honored at the University of Washington. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.

UW Information Technology (UW-IT) is the central information technology organization for the University of Washington, responsible for strategic planning, oversight, and direction of the UW’s IT infrastructure, resources, and services. UW-IT provides critical technology support to all three campuses, UW Medicine, and research operations around the world, partnering with the UW community to enable innovation, learning, discovery, and service."

The Infrastructure Division within UW-IT, designs, implements and supports the essential IT infrastructure services and technologies that are indispensable to carrying out the University’s mission. They include the University’s wired and wireless networks, telecommunications services, computing and storage services, infrastructure tools and service delivery platforms.

The Network Specialist  on the Wireless Design and Architecture team within the Infrastructure division works with other members of the team to coordinate communications and tasks required to complete upgrades to the Wi-Fi infrastructure in buildings on 3 campuses, residence halls, UW Medicine and other sites around the state of Washington.  This position also completes tasks to ensure monitoring systems are updated, audits  wireless hardware, and performs wireless surveys in buildings to ensure wireless deployments meet our standards and to help troubleshoot wireless performance issues.

This position will do the following to diagnose and/or to resolve issues.