The Technology Services Department seeks a qualified Network Engineer - IS Communication Specialist II.
This position is responsible for design, configuration, maintenance, and fault isolation of the County enterprise network including: network security, routing, switching, wireless LAN, WAN, VOIP, Virtual Private Networking, testing, and repairing network infrastructure. This individual may exercise technical and functional direction over lower-level staff and may also provide training on a project basis.
The ideal candidate for this position will have proficiency and experience with:
- Advanced network infrastructure engineering, configuration, installation, and maintenance methods and techniques.
- Management of L2 and L3 technologies and security including adjacency/convergence protocols and techniques (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP).
- IP traffic redistribution and route filtering.
- VPN setup and troubleshooting including IPSec and GRE.
- Application of ACL’s and VLAN Configuration Management.
- Aruba Wireless managed environment including Clearpass, Airwave and Controller(s).
- Configuring and building an industry standard network monitoring and alert system (SolarWinds experience is desirable).
- Technical writing and diagraming skills for producing use case documentation and standard operating procedures
The ideal candidates will also have knowledge of:
- Arista switching environment.
- Arista CloudVision.
- HPE/Aruba switching and routing experience.
- SDWAN technology with Silver Peak experience ideal.
- Cradlepoint and Cradlepoint NetCloud Manager.
- Aruba Wireless managed environment.
- Firewalls including Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, or both.
- F5, or competing/compatible load balancing technologies.
- Network Security design.
- UPS connectivity & installation.
- Power and power distribution supporting network appliance.
- Cloud datacenter support experience.
- DNS, DHCP and an understanding of IPAM.
- Solarwinds or other network management platforms.
The position will require the individual to participate in an on-call capacity after working hours.
Note: This is a limited-term, at-will assignment. Limited term employees are assigned to assignments not to exceed three years. They receive medical and dental benefits, similar to regular employees, and a defined contribution retirement plan. This recruitment maybe used to fill future limited term.
Information for current County employees: Current and regular San Mateo County Employees who are interested in this assignment must submit application materials and compete in the selection process. If you are successful in the selection process and are being considered for the assignment, HR will work directly with you and/or your department for options. Please note that there is no guarantee that you will be allowed by your department to rotate into this assignment nor are your departments obligated to allow you to take on this assignment.
The salary range for this position is "as is" and non-negotiable.