Supervisor, Network Engineering at Regional Transportation District in Denver, Colorado

Job Description:

At Regional Transportation District (RTD), We make lives better through connections!

When you join RTD, you will be among dedicated employees exhibiting RTD's values of passion, respect, diversity, trustworthiness, collaboration, and ownership. RTD is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of our diversity value statement, we encourage our employees to honor diversity in thought, people, and experience. Come join RTD on this great journey to be the trusted leader in mobility, delivering excellence and value to our customers and community.

RTD Employee Benefits: https://www.rtd-denver.com/careers/benefits

(RTD Represented Employee Benefits: Please refer to the Labor Agreement included in the above link for details.)

This position is responsible for overseeing the network team's activities which includes the installation, management, maintenance, capacity planning, design, and engineering of the LAN/WAN data network infrastructure. Additional responsibilities include asset management, vendor management, compliance, security, disaster recovery, documentation, stakeholder communication, and continual improvement efforts.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position has overall supervisory responsibility and accountability for the data network infrastructure unit and provides direction and coaching to direct reports.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Manage and recruit staff to include interviewing, hiring, assigning work, training, coaching, and counseling to ensure consistent application of Employee Guidelines, processes, and procedures. 


• Conducts performance reviews and holds employees accountable for performance of their responsibilities.


• Develops and manages short and long range network design and architecture plans for the organization’s facilities and data centers.


• Develops configuration standards across network equipment in order to ensure integrity of the systems and services.


• Manages network related projects, tasks and upgrades and coordinates networking resources as needed.


• Contributes to creation of the budget and tracking expenditures, developing procurement documents and evaluating proposals.


• Reviews new technologies, methodologies and processes to ensure the network infrastructure meets current and future needs. 


• Stays current with new complex networking technologies, architectures and best practices.


• Follows Asset Management policies and procedures to maintain records of hardware and software.


• Coordinates repairs and quality control tests.


• Provides advanced network support, including all means of data communications transport, security measures for transports, disaster recovery planning and advanced technical problem analysis and resolution for the organization’s facilities and locations.   

​Other

• All job-related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proficiency in advanced analysis, installation, administration and troubleshooting of a data network.


• Proficiency in network design and planning.


• Proficiency in auditing and documentation methods and practices.


• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.


• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.


• Ability to use sound judgment and maintain the strictest of confidentiality.


• Ability to manage time and workload effectively which includes planning, organizing, and prioritizing with attention to details.


• Occasional on-call availability outside normal business hours is required.
   

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field; Master’s degree preferred.


• Cisco Certified Network Professional or Cisco Certified Design Professional certification or equivalent experience.


•  A minimum of ten years of experience in advanced network engineering.


• A minimum of ten years of experience in advanced packet/protocol analysis throughout the seven-layer OSI model


• A minimum of ten years of experience in design and operations with enterprise firewalls, IPS and other security technologies, complex routing protocols, physical and logical LAN and WAN technologies, WiFi, and security and encryption standards.


• A minimum of five years of experience in client-server networking in a Windows, Linux, or Macintosh computing environment.


• A minimum of three years of experience in a supervisory role.

Or

• An equivalent combination of education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Physical Requirements:

The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those required by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations.

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; risk of radiation and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

CAREER MAP:

Based on job performance, experience, education and position availability the next step on the career map for this position may be:

MANAGER, SHARED TECHNICAL SERVICES

Pay Range:

$109,309.00 - $154,398.25 Annual

RTD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy ( https://www.rtd-denver.com/sites/default/files/files/2022-12/EEO%20Policy%20Statement-%20UPDATED.pdf )

RTD posts a compensation range that represents a good faith estimate of what RTD anticipates paying for the position at the time of posting.  Starting salary is based on the candidate’s relevant and verified education, training and work experience.  Applicants should submit all relevant and verifiable education, training and work experiences at the time of application.

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