NETWORK ARCHITECT

Company: University of Washington
Location: Seattle
Posted on: October 22, 2024

Job Description:

If you are using a screen reader and experience any difficulty accessing our web pages, please call 206-543-2544 or email UWHires and we will be happy to assist you.Benefits: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website.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.ABOUT USWe are skilled IT professionals dedicated to the use of technology to support the missions of the University and our partners. We are committed to:

• Teamwork, transparency, self-motivation, and individual accountability.
• A collaborative workplace that promotes cross-disciplinary interaction.
• Agility, responsiveness, and iterative means of delivering strategic value sooner.
• Self-directed time for learning, innovation, and professional development.
• Effective use of tools and processes to free people to do what they do best.
• A healthy work/life balance, where our best work happens in a 40-hour work week.ABOUT YOUAs a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives - on our campuses, in our state and around the world. By applying for the position, you are telling us:
• You are a successful, experienced senior network engineer with seven or more years of experience designing, deploying and supporting advanced, large-scale, critical, high-volume networks in Campus and/or Metro environments.
• You have relevant industry experience developing Datacenter and Cloud strategies and suitable network architectures.
• You are driven to understand our community's needs, translate for others, and ask yourself questions like "What are their needs?" and "What are they trying to do?"
• You believe in open engagement, dialog, clear communication, trust, and respect as the foundations for effective partnerships.
• Your decisions are guided by vision, informed by data and process, and driven by a desire to make things work better.
• You are motivated to work in higher education, at a public institution, and more specifically, at the UW.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, agile mindset and desire to influence the evolution of the services we provide.PRIMARY ROLES:
• Network Architecture and Design: Construct a strong framework that defines strategic integration of automation and virtualization within UW's and UW's partner networks, assuring that this framework accommodates the requirements of our UW customers as well as the operation teams delivering and supporting the networks. Clearly document architectures and designs. Work with Wired and Wireless Service Owners and Managers to prioritize efforts to help achieve increased efficiency, reduced costs, mitigation of risk, and increased network reliability and sustainability. Work with customers and leaders to develop a strong Cloud and Datacenter strategy and suitable network architecture. Facilitate integration of network-related automation and virtualization efforts with and between many UW-IT groups. Integrate and promote common best-practices around advanced network service constructs. Oversee design of network modifications and network standards. Provide direction and expertise to assist with the deployment and transition into operational mode for new network technologies. Mentor and train others in advanced network technologies.
• Network Services: Oversee and provide direction on evaluating and testing of new technologies. Engage with peers in higher education, NRENs and industry and track results of others' implementation of modern network constructs. Stay abreast of new technologies. Routinely engage with appropriate vendors.
• Project Lead: The network engineer will delegate, oversee, and substantially contribute to the preparation and submission of Business Cases for high-profile, strategic Wired or Wireless Networks projects. Once approved, this network engineer may act as Project Lead and oversee the development, delivery, milestones, reporting, and project-close activities. The network engineer may have responsibility for multiple, simultaneous projects.This network engineer position reports to the Director of Network Design & Architecture.REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Engineering, Mathematics or related field or experience.
• Seven or more years of experience architecting, designing, deploying and supporting advanced, large-scale, high-volume and reliable networks.
• Experience as a lead network engineer in a major national or international production network environment.
• Strong expertise with a variety of Network Management systems and approaches.
• Strong expertise with a variety of Datacenter and Cloud constructs as they relate to network infrastructure requirements.
• Identification, creation and deployment of virtualization and automation constructs to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Track record of successful design and deployment of major, large-scale leading-edge network constructs.
• Proven record of advanced project planning and organizational skills, including building strong and supportive team relationships.
• Demonstrated excellent written/oral communication skills, technical documentation skills, user liaison skills, and personal interaction abilities.DESIRED:
• Experience in a major higher education, research, and/or medical/healthcare organization.
• Experience with ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library).
• Software coding tools & practices such as Agile, DevOps, Python, Ansible, Django, github, Containers.
• Prior experience using ServiceNow, Atlassian Confluence and JIRA, O365, Google Suite.CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:This professional position requires the employee to fulfill the requirements of the job. This may entail occasional situations where work outside of standard work days is required to meet deadlines or respond to emergency situations. This is an essential position and is required to report to work remotely when UW suspends operations.Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select "Apply to this position".Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, the University of Washington will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 or dso@uw.edu.Applicants considered for this position will be required to disclose if they are the subject of any substantiated findings or current investigations related to sexual misconduct at their current employment and past employment.
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