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The Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) is a public pension fund that provides New York City educators with retirement, disability, and death benefits. TRS is currently the City’s second-largest pension system and it is one of the largest pension plan sponsors in the United States, with more than $100 billion in assets and over 215,000 members, retirees, and beneficiaries.
Position Summary
Under direction of the Infrastructure Architect, the Network Engineer will design, implement, configure, manage, and monitor a complex hybrid-cloud network infrastructure. You will carry out research and decision-making on existing or emerging technologies. You will assess technological innovations and evaluate best of need services, processes, and support strategies. As a member of the Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure team, you are responsible for designing and developing scalable, maintainable, highly available network architectures that meet business objectives and SLAs. You will help set direction for the IT roadmap and domain architecture. You will identify new enabling technologies and platforms to help solve technical challenges, and you will serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for one or more infrastructure solutions.
Management of the hybrid-cloud environment includes lifecycle management and escalated support.
You will assess risk and implement mitigation strategies within the existing and/or proposed technology architecture. You will work with the team to align solution strategy and priorities.
Your responsibilities include defining and updating documentation requirements, and you will assist with the preparation of documentation compliant with TRS’ governing frameworks and standard operating procedures and practices.
Role Expectations

• Defines system solutions-based requirements including integration with existing or proposed applications, systems, and platforms.
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes, security compliance and security configurations.
• Develop and maintain documentation relating to all assigned systems and networks.
• Remain current with industry trends and new technologies for systems and network architecture.
• Responsible for the architectural design, development, and deployment of the agency’s systems.
• Provide Level 2/3 Infrastructure support for a complex interconnected technology real estate comprising of three cloud sites and physical datacenter(s).
• Monitor performance, system and network bandwidth resource utilization, trending, capacity planning and ensure system availability and reliability.
• Researches, identifies, selects, and tests technology products required for solution delivery. Establishes, implements, and documents the technology integration or migration strategies.
• Configure and install various network devices and services within TRS physical and cloud environments (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS, VPC, vNet, security groups, network access list)
• Perform technical research and development for long-term system and networking roadmap.

Professional/vendor certification(s) in local area network administration that is required for the position to be filled. In addition, all candidates must have the following:

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and two years of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) experience in local area network and/or wide area network planning, design, configuration, installation, implementation, troubleshooting, integration, performance monitoring, maintenance, enhancement, and security management; or

2. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) information technology experience of which at least 2 years must have been as described in "1" or

3. A satisfactory equivalent of education and/or experience equivalent to "1" or "2" above. Education may be substituted for experience on the basis that 30 undergraduate semester credits from an accredited college is equivalent to 6 months of experience. A master’s degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college may be substitute for one year of experience. However, all candidates must have at least one year of satisfactory (not classroom based) full-time information technology experience as described in "1" above.

Note: In addition to meeting the minimum Qualification Requirements: Incumbents may be required to update existing and/or obtain additional professional industry-standard certification(s) for current and future technical environments(s) in which they may be assigned to work, as determined by the employing agency.

Skills & Knowledge

• Proven hands-on network engineering experience on LAN, WAN, SDN (Software-Defined network), VPN, Cloud and edge network including CISCO Routers, CISCO Switches, Checkpoint Firewalls, BGP routing, VLAN, Trunking, Port-Channel, WAF, IPS, DLP, AWS and Azure cloud networking.
• Expert knowledge and hands-on experience of hybrid cloud configuration, management, and monitoring
• Experience in network monitoring and troubleshooting (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, firewalls, or LAN/WAN)
• Experience in scripting (Json, PowerShell) for automation and configuration
• Deep understanding of network protocols (e.g. BGP, IPSec, 802.1x, QoS, HSRP, VTP).
• Experience in network threat protection Devices (Cloud Access Security Brokers, Data Loss Prevention, Proxy devices, Secure Web Gateways, WAN Accelerators & Optimizers)
• Solid understanding of OSI and TCP/IP model

Qualifications

• Required 10+ years of hands-on experience with networking, cloud computing, security including CISCO switches, routers, firewall, load balancer, security, AWS cloud and/or Azure cloud.
• Preferred Certification in one or more of the relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., CCNP, AWS Architect, AWS Security, AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Architect, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture)

TRS NYC offers a comprehensive benefits package:

• Retirement savings plan (The New York Employees' Retirement System)
• U.S. Savings Bonds
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness
• Professional Development
• Employee Assistance Program
• PTO, holidays, sick leave
• Scholarships and college savings program
• Work/life balance
• 9a-5p hybrid work schedule
• Health benefits, dental and vision coverage, prescription drug plans, Flexible Spending Programs (FSA), and commuter benefits plan

*****Please note, only applicants who have a civil service title or have taken the Certified IT Administrator or comparable exam will be considered*******please include your civil service title status/information on your cover letter****

Please apply via ESS if you work for the City of NY. All others, please apply via NYC Careers.

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

New York City Residency is not required for this position