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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation’s primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.

From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our eight employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.

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Job Description

The Network Engineering team is part of the Information Technology Services (ITS) department that designs and operates network and telecom services and solutions to support the laboratory’s mission. This includes assisting researchers to provide IT infrastructure solutions at all NREL locations and collaboration with other National Laboratories on research projects, as well as NREL partners. As part of the networking team, this position will work closely with other ITS network engineers, ITS teams, researchers, and research operations staff. This will also include assisting in the implementation of network engineering solutions and support for all NREL building access controls and lab protection networks as necessary.

The network engineering team has four areas of responsibilities including network engineering to support research, administrative, and data center needs; Telecommunications to support unified communications and collaboration services; infrastructure automation for campus, research and data center solutions, and a structured cabling team that designs and installs indoor and outdoor cabling infrastructure.

Basic Qualifications

Relevant Bachelor’s Degree and 5 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master’s Degree and 3 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD or equivalent relevant education/experience.

Additional Required Qualifications

Hands on experience with Cisco routers and switches in a large corporate environment
Hands on experience configuring and troubleshooting firewalls (Palo Alto preferred)
Proficient configuring and troubleshooting routing technologies and protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)
Proficient configuring and troubleshooting switching technologies and protocols (VLANs, Etherchannel, Spanning Tree, QOS, etc.)
Hands on experience with VPNs (IPsec, SSL)
Experience troubleshooting LAN/WAN and application performance related issues
Experience with network management tools such as Cisco Prime, SolarWinds and NETQ
Experience configuring RADIUS and TACACS
Knowledge of optical Ethernet concepts (e.g., single-mode and multi-mode fiber, transceiver types)
Experience gathering requirements and input to evaluate and integrate technical recommendations to address project specific needs and technological challenges
Hands-on experience with operating systems (e.g., Linux, OS X, and Microsoft Windows)
Ability to work participate in an on-call rotation, including overnight and weekends.
Self-starter with good time management skills
Strong analytical and effective problem-solving sills

Preferred Qualifications

Cisco certification(s) – CCNA/CCNP
Experience with load balancers (F5)
Experience with controller based wireless deployments (Cisco, Aruba)
Experience with Mellanox, Edge-Core and Cumulus Linux
Experience with High Performance data center networks (Leaf-Spine)
Experience deploying and troubleshooting IPv6
Experience with perfSONAR setup and monitoring
Knowledge of Industrial Ethernet hardware and protocols
Understanding of network automation using Ansible and Git and other tools
Experience with various programming and scripting languages (e.g., Python, shell scripting, etc.)

Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)

Job Profile: IT Professional III-Network Engineering / Annual Salary Range: $75,500 – $135,900

NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.

Benefits Summary

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short*- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits*; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement*. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.

* Based on eligibility rules

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