Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

Virginias community colleges have a 50-year track record of educational excellence and innovation to serve the needs of our citizens and strengthen the Commonwealths economy. When Virginias General Assembly established the Virginia Community College System in 1966, the need for a comprehensive system was well known. Over the two decades after the end of World War II, leaders in government, business, professional sectors, and academia had called for a new approach to providing educational opportunity. A key concern was Virginias ability to develop a skilled and knowledgeable workforce to expand the states economy. Today our community colleges give every Virginian the opportunity to gain a quality education. With 23 colleges on 40 campuses located throughout the state, Virginias Community Colleges are committed to serving Virginia families, helping them acquire the knowledge and skills to seize the opportunities of today and tomorrow.

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the VCCS enterprise network infrastructure, data center switching, WAN routing, and firewall services and does not require face-to-face interaction with the public, including students. This position routinely completes remote after-hours and weekend maintenance on the network infrastructure to minimize service interruptions during normal business hours.

It is expected that the employee will be capable of working a hybrid schedule as this position is telework eligible, planning time appropriately, and going to college locations, the System Office, the Shared Services Center, VCCS data centers, and network infrastructure serving all 23 college campuses and their associated satellite locations in Virginia. The employee will attend all required meetings as necessary, either in person or from remote locations as dictated by present circumstances. The employee will be generally available during normal work hours but will be fully prepared to work as needed outside of those hours to maintain the 247 service required by the VCCS.

For full consideration, please apply by September 13, 2026.

KSAs/Required Qualifications

Comprehensive knowledge:

• Cisco Routers
• BGP and OSPF routing protocols
• QOS
• PRTG
• Routing and Switching
• VLANs
• Cabling
• Sub-netting, NIC-bonding
• TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6
• Brocade and Cisco switches
• BlueCat DNS and DHCP
• WLAN
• Wireshark
• Firewalls, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Panorama
• Aruba ClearPass RADIUS and TACACS

Considerable knowledge:

• F5 BigIP LTM
• F5 BigIP ASM
• F5 BigIP iRules
• SSL Certificates

Working knowledge:

• Palo Alto Global Protect VPN
• Change Management
• Incident Management
• Request Management
• Asset and Configuration management
• NTP Services
• Muli-Carrier SD-WAN
• Junos / Juniper
• Carrier circuit
• Colo Cross-Connect handling

Considerable skill:

• IP routing using BGP and OSPF
• Layer 2 Switching
• Firewall management
• VPN
• Project Task Management

Ability:

• To learn new things and to apply them when and where appropriate.
• Outstanding oral/written communication.
• Detail-oriented.
• To work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• To apply general work experience to a task.
• To work independently or as part of a team.
• To work in stressful situations.
• To use logic to resolve complex problems.
• To communicate and work well with everyone from the highest levels of technical management to staff level.
• To understand a technical environment and plan accordingly.
• To find creative solutions to problems.
• To analyze user needs and solve problems.
• To be a self-starter and work independently.
• Coordinate the work of a team.
• Coordinated multiple projects and priorities.
• To learn new methodologies and appropriate applications.
• To coordinate multiple projects and their related priorities.

Education, Certifications:

• Substantial knowledge of cited functions.
• Coursework completed, certifications obtained, or professional experience in the fields of Networking, Information Systems or Computer Science.

Experience:

• Previous experience as LAN
• Progressive professional experience performing advanced systems engineering, systems programming, systems analysis, network administration, or related information technology functions.
• Project management responsibility for small to medium projects.
• Must have proven ability to define and develop solutions based on business requirements.
• Extensive experience working in Information Technology.
• Experience in higher education a plus.

Additional Considerations

• CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Preferred
  CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) a plus

For further information and to Apply:

The selected candidates offer is contingent upon the successful completion of a criminal background investigation, which may include: fingerprint checks, local agency checks, employment verification, verification of education, credit checks (relevant to employment). Additionally, selected candidates may be required to complete the Commonwealths Statement of Economic Interest. For more information, please follow this link:

The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, political affiliation, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other non-merit factors.

The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and complies with the Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA and ADAAA), to provide, reasonable accommodation to applicants in need of access to the application, interviewing, and selection processes when requested.

VCCS uses E-Verify to check employee eligibility to work in the United States. You will be required to complete an I-9 form and provide documentation of your identity for employment purposes.

Salary/Compensation: $100,000 - $125,000 per year

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