Ellucian
Network Engineer
🇺🇸 Sedalia, MO
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Information Technology
🗓️ August 28th, 2025
CCNA
DHCP
IPSEC
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a Network Engineer to manage and maintain network infrastructure, including design, configuration, upgrades, security, and troubleshooting of hardware such as Aruba wireless, Fortinet firewalls, and Cisco systems. The role involves providing Tier 2/3 support, performing regular maintenance, participating in disaster recovery planning, and supporting network policies and procedures to ensure efficient performance and security.
Highlights
- Perform network infrastructure maintenance including firmware upgrades and security remediation
- Provide Tier 2/3 technical support and troubleshoot network issues via Service-NOW tickets
- Manage and support LAN, WLAN, WAN, routers, switches, firewalls, VPN, and related hardware
- Administer DHCP, DNS, and RADIUS/TACACS servers
- Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Recommend and support network policy and procedural improvements
- Require 3-5 years of related network engineering experience and strong TCP/IP knowledge
- Need understanding of VLAN design, troubleshooting methodologies, and structured cabling
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and industry certification (CCNA, Network+, or equivalent) required within 6 months
- Experience with Aruba, Fortinet, Cisco systems, network analysis tools, and managing segmented firewall environments preferred
Network Engineer Full Description
Network Engineer (TCP/IP Exp Required, Onsite State Fair CC, MO)
- 3201 W. 16th St., Sedalia, Missouri, US, 65301
- Services
- 6189
- Up to 25%
About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
The Network Engineer position requires a versatile technical individual who can perform network design, configuration, installation, upgrades, security, troubleshooting, planning and recommendations for upgrades. Duties are performed on a variety of network hardware including Aruba wireless and network switches, Fortinet firewalls, and Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
Where you will make an impact
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
The Network Engineer position requires a versatile technical individual who can perform network design, configuration, installation, upgrades, security, troubleshooting, planning and recommendations for upgrades. Duties are performed on a variety of network hardware including Aruba wireless and network switches, Fortinet firewalls, and Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
Where you will make an impact
- Performing regular maintenance (firmware upgrades, hardware replacement, security vulnerability remediation, etc) during approved maintenance windows on network infrastructure such as switches, routers, wireless LAN controllers, firewalls, PBX, etc.
- Providing Tier 2/3 support through analysis, diagnosis, and troubleshooting in response to service requests (Service-NOW tickets)
- Empowering help desk technicians to resolve/escalate issues efficiently by providing quality documentation for common issues
- Evaluating, recommending, and supporting policy and procedures for LAN, WLAN, WAN, routers, switches, firewall, VPN, and other hardware systems.
- Participating in disaster recovery and business continuity planning as it relates to the IT infrastructure.
- Implementing and maintaining network systems, infrastructure, and other related sub-systems to provide efficient resource utilization and performance.
- Administration of the DHCP, DNS, and RADIUS/TACACS server(s)
- Planning and implementing technical change requests including participating in change management meetings.
- Monitoring and documenting changes to the infrastructure and completing the change management process
- Assisting customers with the identification of new LAN, WAN, telephony, and wireless service needs
- Monitoring infrastructure utilization to proactively identify and resolve issues
- Making procurement recommendations as appropriate for technology refresh
- Maintaining and/or increasing technical knowledge through course work, workshops, and readings.
What you will bring
- 3-5 years of related experience
- Demonstrated strong understanding of the following:
- TCP/IP and associated protocols such as ARP, DNS, DHCP, 802.1Q, IPSEC, and NAT
- VLAN design and subnetting IP networks
- Troubleshooting methodology
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks and work on multiple assignments to meet deadlines in a changing environment
- Superb ability to communicate clearly and in detail, both verbally and in written format
- Able to occasionally lift and carry 50-100 pounds
- Able to remain stationary for long periods
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
- Firm understanding of structured cabling such as patch panels, ethernet, and fiber optics
- Any combination of education and experience equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in computer science or network administration; or equivalent, including technical training (certifications) in campus network technologies.
- Obtain at least one industry certification within 6 months of the start of employment such as CCNA, Network+, or equivalent
Desired Skills/Knowledge/Experience
- Existing industry certifications such as CCNA, Network+, ACMP, NSE 4, or other equivalents
- Experience with Aruba, Fortinet, or Cisco systems
- Experience managing firewalls in a highly segmented network environment
- Experience designing and deploying WLAN solutions
- Experience using network analysis tools like Wireshark or tcpdump
- Experience managing LAN, WLAN, and SD-WAN network environments, as well as VoIP, site-to-site VPN, and other network applications across local and wide area networks in a multi-campus environment
- Experience implementing certificate-based authentication for VPN and/or 802.1X
- Experience with ensuring that IT infrastructure is properly specified in construction projects including meeting with architects and other stakeholders
- Experience with BGP and/or IPv6
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience managing a campus network
What makes #Ellucianlife
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
- Flexible time off
- Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
- 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
- Parental Leave
- 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
- Telemedicine
- Wellness
- Headspace Care (mental health)
- Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
- RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
- Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
- We Foster a learning culture with:
- Education Assistance Program
- Professional development opportunities
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#LI-Onsite
At Ellucian, we believe in the “power of together.” We embrace an inclusive workplace, and believe that our differences help inspire a culture of acceptance that makes our company more collaborative and innovative. We’re proud to provide equal employment opportunities for job applicants and for our employees, and we are committed to providing a process and an environment that is free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), and other legally protected classifications. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. To enable employees to perform essential functions of their positions and to offer applicants a meaningful opportunity to be considered for positions, we also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices. This job posting is intended to comply with all applicable laws. If we learn during the course of our recruitment process that, due to an applicant’s location, further information about the position is required, including certain salary information, the information in this posting will be supplemented accordingly. Additionally, we are aware of fake applicant schemes and have rigorous internal processes in place to mitigate such risk and inform proper authorities of any such instances that arise.
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