[Hiring] Senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer @State of Colorado

Role Description

Our next Senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer will be a senior technical expert and design authority for the shared enterprise network services the team provides to 20 member organizations. You will architect, engineer, and lead the delivery of highly complex, mission-critical, multi-tenant services, including:

• Data center networking
• Connectivity to cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud)
• WAN transport
• Enterprise wireless
• F5 application delivery and load balancing
• Network and application monitoring, performance management, and troubleshooting

You will make design decisions that affect every member organization, defining how organizations and their applications are segmented, routed, and connected to the data centers, the WAN, the Internet, and the cloud. You will establish network standards, reference designs, service levels, and configuration templates. Additionally, you will:

• Mentor Infrastructure Engineers and review their technical work
• Represent the network service to management, member organizations, cloud providers, carriers, vendors, and other government and private sector entities

Some of the day-to-day opportunities include:

• Serving as a technical lead for enterprise network projects and onboarding member organizations, applications, and sites to shared services
• Acting as a design authority for the shared network services delivered to member organizations
• Architecting scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective designs for data center networks
• Defining high availability, failover, disaster recovery, and capacity strategies across data centers and cloud regions
• Defining service levels and the monitoring and telemetry needed to measure them
• Evaluating technologies, vendor platforms, cloud networking services, and software releases
• Developing platform lifecycle and refresh plans
• Designing security into the network in partnership with Enterprise Security
• Setting the strategy and standards for network automation, infrastructure as code, and network source-of-truth data
• Planning data center capacity for high-bandwidth workloads, including analytics and AI workloads

Qualifications

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience as a Network Engineer designing, implementing, testing, and documenting complex Cisco based network solutions
• 3+ years designing and configuring advanced routing and switching for data center, campus, and WAN networks (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, VRF, route policy)
• 3+ years of network design and architecture experience, including authoring high-level and low-level designs and standards
• 3+ years acting as technical lead and planning enterprise network projects across multiple teams, carriers, and vendors
• 3+ years designing or engineering private connectivity and routing to at least two of AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
• 3+ years engineering data center network fabrics (Cisco ACI and/or Nexus EVPN-VXLAN, or equivalent platforms such as Arista or Juniper)
• 2+ years engineering F5 BIG-IP local traffic management (or an equivalent application delivery platform)
• 2+ years automating network configuration and operations in production using Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools
• Experience securing network infrastructure, including firewall policy and Internet edge protection
• Experience using network and application monitoring tools to resolve complex performance problems
• Experience planning and executing large-scale hardware refreshes, software upgrades, and migrations

Requirements

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis
• Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education
• 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

Benefits

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Conditions of Employment

• OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work
• A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process
• This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed