Job Posting Title:
Engineering Scientist Associate
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Hiring Department:
Texas Advanced Computing Center
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Position Open To:
All Applicants
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Weekly Scheduled Hours:
40
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FLSA Status:
Exempt from FLSA
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Earliest Start Date:
Immediately
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Position Duration:
Expected to Continue
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Location:
DALLAS, TX
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Job Details:
Purpose
This position will provide engineering and support services to LEARN stakeholders, from project planning to execution.
Responsibilities
- Provide engineering and support services to LEARN customers and members.
- Plan, implement, and execute projects, including technical network design and detailed network documentation.
- Isolate and diagnose root causes of hardware and software issues, develop, and carry out plans of action for timely problem resolution.
- Provide second and third level network support for optical network issues.
- Troubleshoot physical and optical connections, and isolate problems with network interfaces, transponders, multiplexers, amplifiers, dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) line and client optics.
- Design and implement advanced configuration of network and transport systems, including 1Gb/s, 10Gbs, 40Gb/s, 100Gb/s, and 400Gb/s ethernet circuits.
- Design and implement co-location space, power, and copper and Fiber cable management systems. Installs and maintains Fiber optic cross-connects.
- Collaborate with vendors and contractors for product/platform evaluation, technical implementation, and planning, and procuring network products and services.
- Develop, implement, and maintain standard operational procedures and established standards.
- Interacts frequently with network, Fiber and service providers, other regional and national networks, content, and cloud providers, and with application and infrastructure providers.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree + 3 years of experience with advanced service provider and WAN optical technologies, including advanced fiber optic networks, in house and outside plant fiber systems, and Wavelength-division Multiplexing (DWDM, CWDM).
- Proven working experience with Ciena and Adtran optical platforms, as well as other common metro and long-haul Ethernet transport platforms.
- Proven experience with network management and monitoring systems (ex: PerfSonar, NetBox, LibreNMS, Rancid, etc.) and diagnostic tools commonly used within the service provider networks.
- Demonstrated teambuilding abilities, a proven record of taking initiative to resolve technical and logistical issues, and strong oral and written communication skills, including effective use of modern collaboration tools.
- Strong project development and implementation skills, along with demonstrated experience in creating and maintaining accurate network documentation.
- Prior experience working with research and education networks.
Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Coherent Detection and modem modulation techniques.
- Fiber optic troubleshooting knowledge and experience with variety of test equipment.
- Working knowledge of fiber and networking tools, including spectrum analyzer, OTDR, Chromatic Dispersion, BER test sets
- Knowledge of WAN routing protocols & technologies (ex: BGP, ISIS, OSPF, MPLS, LACP, LDP, VPN, VPLS, QoS) preferred.
- Knowledge of networking protocols, with a thorough understanding of TCP/IP, IPv4/v6 address management and DNS preferred.
- Familiarity with co-location and Internet Exchange point practices and policies.
Salary Range
$100,000 + depending on qualifications
Working Conditions
- Typical Office Environment
- Repetitive use of a keyboard
- Frequent travel (up to 40%) is required, including visits to existing and prospective member venues and LEARN sites across Texas, as well as attendance at regional and national meetings and conferences throughout North America. Some overnight travel (up to 20% annually) is also expected.
- Oncall availability to respond to and resolve network emergencies during regular and offhours, including 247365 emergency support as required.
Required Materials
- Resume/CV
- Letter of interest
- 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume in the first step of the online job application process. Then, any additional Required Materials will be uploaded in the My Experience section; you can multi-select the additional files or click the Upload button for each file. Before submitting your online job application, ensure thatALLRequired Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.
Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find Jobs. Before you apply though, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left-hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will need to click the Upload button multiple times in order to attach your Resume, References and any additional Required Materials noted above.
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Employment Eligibility:
Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.
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Retirement Plan Eligibility:
The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.
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Background Checks:
A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.
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