Title: Manager, Infrastructure Engineering
Department: Infrastructure Svcs
Campus Location: Arnold/Main Campus
Salary Range: $115,682-$144,602
Work Mode: This position requires some regular in-person presence on campus or at alternative locations, depending on business needs of the office.
Hours Per Week: 40
Work Schedule
Position Type: Full-Time Staff, Exempt
Position Summary
Manage and technically lead the Infrastructure team responsible for the planning, implementing, and support of intricate Hybrid Cloud Networking solutions. Your role involves management and technical oversight for designing of network architectures for both on-premises data centers and cloud infrastructure, providing technical guidance, and developing solution proposals. Strong skills in network, wireless and security design, critical thinking, and excellent communication are essential.
Information and Instructional Technology team members must be dedicated to fostering a culture of excellence. Successful candidates will help IIT build our culture by enabling frictionless service, valuing feedback, and embracing continuous improvement and learning. To support this foundation, IIT has established five pillars. These pillars create a collaborative, supportive, and inclusive professional culture. Successful candidates will be skilled technologists who value AACC’s community and people. They will also be empathetic to the challenges faced by our students, faculty, and staff.
Our Characteristics of Excellence are the guiding principles of our Division, empowering our teams to deliver exceptional results and drive success. Successful candidates will treat people with respect, dignity, and fairness, consistently delivering quality results and following through on commitments and responsibilities. They will cultivate teamwork and collaboration, embrace opportunities for improvement and innovation, and maintain open and honest communication with integrity. Additionally, they will appreciate the value of simple, efficient solutions, recognize the importance of building positive relationships, and respect others' time.
Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) is committed to enriching the educational experience it offers through the diversity of its faculty, administrators, and staff members. The college seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse team who will contribute to the college's excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, embrace concepts of equity and inclusiveness, and support the equal rights of all people by advancing the understanding and appreciation of differences including age, race, gender, ability, religious convictions, socio-economic status, ethnic heritage, or sexual orientation.
While we appreciate your interest in employment with Anne Arundel Community College, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. Employment-based visa sponsorship (including H-1B sponsorship) is not available for any position.
Pay dates occur on the 7th and 22nd of each month. If those dates fall on a weekend, the pay date occurs on the Friday prior to the 7th and 22nd. As an employee of the college, you are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package.
In the best interest of the College, only individuals who are residents of Maryland or one of the following states will be eligible for employment at the college: Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia or the District of Columbia. The college will annually review this restriction and, if appropriate, expand the list of states of employment eligibility.
Job Duties And Responsibilities
Plan, implement, and support complex Hybrid Network infrastructure, wireless and cloud solutions, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope and within budget.
Provide expertise as a subject matter expert to advise entire Information and Instructional Technology organization around Hybrid Cloud Networking.
Design network architectures for on-premises and cloud infrastructure, provide technical guidance, and develop solution proposals.
Participate in regular reviews of network management logs and other systems to ensure performance, integrity, and network uptime
Practice effective project management skills, including the ability to adequately manage assigned projects and report project progress and status. Lead projects to upgrade and/or expand the network including design, planning, testing, and implementation
Develop and maintain document repositories and architectural diagrams related to the installation, administration, maintenance, and use of systems.
Plan and execute changes which impact the Hybrid Network Infrastructure following established change management processes. Ensure planned testing activities are developed, documented, and executed.
Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures. Works to ensure availability of application and services by monitoring systems and services used at all AACC locations.
Assist the Director, Infrastructure|Cloud|Security in the college-wide budget planning process to review and ensure new initiatives are properly vetted for technology needs. Support the development SOW's, RFP's and RFQ's for Information and Instructional Technologies related technologies and maintenance will working very closely with the Purchasing department. Communicate with vendors, customers, management, and technology staff
Maintain expertise of current Hybrid Cloud Networking trends and provide guidance about direction of various Hybrid Cloud Networking technologies.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or higher required
Current industry standard Cloud related certification, ie Microsoft Azure required
Minimum of 5 years experience independently resolving complex technical issues involving public Cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure.
Minimum of 2 years supervising technical staff
Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining complex Enterprise Wireless, Local Area Networks (LANs) & Wide Area Networks (WANs).
Knowledge of dynamic routing protocols (RIP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, IGRP), IPSEC, wireless and TCP/IP protocols, switched Ethernet and VLAN technologies. Layer 2 and 3 LAN design and operation,
Significant experience with cloud (AWS, Azure) networking and/or security.
Weekend and evening and on-call hours may be required.
Preferred Qualifications
Certifications: Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Azure Network Engineer Associate, Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert. However, other Cloud provider certifications will be considered.
Extreme Networks, Aruba Wireless, FatPipe WAN Optimization and APC UPS experience.
