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[Remote] Network Engineer 3

🌍 Remote · United States 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The University of Washington’s UW Medicine IT Services is hiring a Network Engineer 3 to maintain and improve network infrastructure across UW Medicine. The role leads network technology evaluations and architecture improvements, provides advanced consultation, mentors junior engineers, and participates in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

  • Guiding the maintenance of current infrastructure and designs
  • Leading evaluations of advanced, high-level network and technologies
  • Identifying areas of improvement and designing solutions
  • Developing new methods to improve reliability, security, and agility and deploying future network architecture
  • Providing advanced level consultation in areas of network expertise across UW Medicine
  • Sharing technical expertise and mentoring more junior engineers in technical expertise
  • Participate in a 24x7 weekly on-call rotation

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field or equivalent combination of education/experience
  • 8+ years' experience in network engineering, implementation, or operations
  • Proven experience implementing, managing, and maintaining advanced level security and network infrastructure for large scale enterprise, including hardware/software firewalls, VPN, remote access, datacenter networks switches, load balancers, and a variety of monitoring systems
  • Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP stack, IPv4, IPV6, Multicast, and related troubleshooting; must be able to capture, correlate, and analyze network packet traffic
  • Advanced level experience with routing and protocols OSPF, BGP, Multicast  STP, and MSTP in large environments
  • Advanced level experience in the development and support of production mission critical systems and applications
  • Advanced level disciplined troubleshooting methodology, paying close attention to detail
  • Advanced level experience maintaining detailed configuration and testing documentation
  • Advanced level experience with documentation, integration, customer support documentation, and service development
  • Advanced understanding of AAA and IP network security
  • Advanced knowledge of 802.11 family and related protocols
  • Advanced level experience with VLANs, DHCP, IP management, and other necessary data network standards
  • Exemplary track record of successful, increased responsibility, and decision making, including successful design and deployment of major, large-scale leading-edge network constructs inclusive of automation and virtualization technologies
  • Exemplary track record of successful evaluation and proof-of-concept of implementing edge network technologies and tools
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Wireshark, Nmap, and Tcpdump or equivalent
  • Proficient with supported Microsoft Windows, MAC OS, and Linux
  • Proficient with supported mobile operating systems such as IOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
  • Experience in a hospital or 24x7 facility
  • Experience with Palo Alto and Checkpoint and Juniper

Benefits

  • 100% remote opportunity
  • 15 days of vacation your first year
  • 12 days of sick time
  • 1 personal holiday
  • 11 paid holidays each year
  • 100% matching, 100% immediately vesting 403(b)

Company Overview

  • University of Washington is an educational institution that provides undergraduate, graduate, and research programs. It was founded in 1861, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.washington.edu.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • University of Washington has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 154 in 2026, 238 in 2025, 205 in 2024, 157 in 2023, 171 in 2022, 169 in 2021, 154 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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