Network Engineer

NETWORK ENGINEER

Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Building Reliable Networks, Enabling Innovation, and Supporting Institutional

Excellence

The Network Engineer is responsible for supporting, maintaining,

troubleshooting, and monitoring the college's enterprise network infrastructure

and security systems. This position works under the direction of senior network

engineers and IT leadership to ensure the availability, security, and

performance of wired, wireless, voice, and physical security systems.

The ideal candidate will have experience with Fortinet products, network

troubleshooting, and enterprise networking fundamentals. This position provides

operational support for campus network services, security platforms, Zoom Phone,

and Verkada security systems.

This position may require occasional evening, weekend, and emergency maintenance

work to support critical infrastructure upgrades and incident response

activities.

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Key Responsibilities

• 35% Network Infrastructure Support
• * Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Fortinet network and security solutions.
• * Support and maintain FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiManager,
• FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator, FortiNAC, FortiEMS, and FortiPAM.
• * Assist with network deployments, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
• * Monitor network performance and respond to alerts and incidents.
• * Troubleshoot Layer 1 through Layer 7 connectivity, performance, and security
• issues across wired, wireless, voice, and application environments.
• * Support VLANs, routing, switching, DHCP, DNS, VPNs, and wireless networking.
• * Maintain network documentation, diagrams, and operational procedures.
• 20% Security Operations
• * Assist with firewall policy management and security monitoring.
• * Monitor security events using FortiAnalyzer and other security tools.
• * Support endpoint security and Zero Trust initiatives through FortiEMS and
• FortiNAC.
• * Participate in vulnerability remediation and security incident response
• activities.
• * Maintain compliance with organizational security policies and standards.
• 20% Voice and Collaboration Systems
• * Support Zoom Phone administration and troubleshooting.
• * Assist users with call routing, auto attendants, call queues, and phone
• provisioning.
• * Coordinate with vendors and service providers to resolve voice-related
• issues.
• 20% Physical Security Systems
• * Support Verkada camera systems and related infrastructure.
• * Assist with camera deployments, troubleshooting, firmware updates, and
• monitoring.
• 5%
• * Other duties as assigned
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Minimum Qualifications

• Education
• * Associate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Networking, or
• related field; or equivalent experience.
• Experience
• * 1–3 years of experience supporting enterprise network infrastructure.
• * CCNA and NSE 4, or Network+ and NSE 4
• Preferred Experience
• * Experience with FortiGate firewalls in an enterprise environment.
• * Experience with FortiSwitch and FortiAP deployments.
• * Experience with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer.
• * Experience with FortiNAC, FortiAuthenticator, FortiEMS, or FortiPAM.
• * Experience supporting Zoom Phone and Verkada systems.
• * CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• * Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• * Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• * Strong customer service orientation.
• * Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

As a member of the Louisiana Community and Technical College

System, BRCC has an attractive benefits package with a wide variety of benefit

options.

Benefits

offered include retirement, multiple medical insurance

options, supplemental insurances (dental, term life, disability, accident,

vision, etc.), Tax Saver Flexible Benefits Plan (saves tax dollars on some

childcare and medical expenses), holidays (14 per year, typically includes

longer break at Christmas), generous annual (vacation) and sick leave benefits

and Employee Assistance Program. Specific benefits depend on job category,

percent effort, and length of employment.

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Why Join BRCC?

Baton Rouge Community College offers a collaborative work environment, a

commitment to employee development, and the opportunity to support the mission

of student success through strong institutional operations.

Passing pre-employment criminal background screen is required as a condition of

employment.