Senior Cloud Network Engineer

2 days ago

Yolo CA, Yolo County, CA; California, United States State Teachers' Retirement System Full-time

Job Description and Duties

The CalSTRS IT Infrastructure & Operations Division is seeking a motivated individual to work as an Information Technology Specialist II on the IT Disaster Recovery & Network Services Team .

The IT Infrastructure and Operations Division manages the core technology infrastructure needed to support the CalSTRS business. This infrastructure includes client technology; network, servers, and storage infrastructure; and technology disaster recovery. The IT Infrastructure and Operations Division also provides technology related operational support for CalSTRS and is comprised of the following teams: Client Technology Infrastructure, Audiovisual Services, Client Technology Services, Technology Disaster Recovery, Network Infrastructure, Service Desk and System & Security Administration.

The Disaster Recovery Unit works with Technology Services and business teams to ensure disaster recovery (DR) readiness by advance planning and coordinating frequent DR testing exercises.

Under the general direction of the IT Disaster Recovery & Network Services Manager, the Information Technology Specialist II (ITS ll) works on a wide variety of tasks requiring innovative problem-solving in designing, implementing, managing, and troubleshooting CalSTRS networks including our HQ campus, co-location facilities, Member Service Centers, Satellite Offices, and Cloud network connectivity. The ITS ll is responsible for acting as a lead and maintain expertise in supporting and administering complex cloud network services for CalSTRS. The incumbent possess an expert level of knowledge, skills, and abilities in all aspects of cloud networks that provide the following services throughout the department which include but not limited to, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud hosting, Azure Cloud Services (ACS) cloud hosting, Google cloud, public cloud infrastructure, co-location architecture, cloud application programming interface (APIs), and protocols that enable a hybrid network model. The incumbent maintains working knowledge of deployment and management of cloud network services and integrate across local and wide-area networks through virtual private networks (VPN). The ITS II partners with business staff, infrastructure architect, management, and other technical experts to develop and maintain the long-term architectural, maintenance, and support strategies for CalSTRS networking systems. The incumbent makes networking architecture decisions for project teams and ensures those decisions are consistent with long-term strategies and architecture.


The ideal candidate will possess the following skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineer or IT related field.
  • At least 5 years of experience in the last 10 years working with Cisco routing including BGP, EIGRP, etc.
  • At least 5 years of experience in the last 10 years working with Cisco switching including stacking, STP, VTP, DTP and etherchannels, etc.
  • At least 5 years of experience in the last 10 years working with PAN firewalls, Panorama, Strata, Prisma Access, Prisma Cloud, etc.
  • At least 5 years of experience in the last 10 years working with Cisco wireless systems.
  • At least 5 years of experience in the last 10 years doing hands-on troubleshooting and resolving complex network issues using tools like Solarwinds, Wireshark, etc.
  • At least 5 years of experience in the last 10 years working in public clouds including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud networking.
  • At least 5 years of experience in the last 10 years developing network diagrams, network architecture documents, network management runbooks, etc.

Every 12 months, based on performance evaluation, employees may receive a 5% salary increase until they reach the maximum salary for the position.

In July 2025, the State of California implemented the Personal Leave Program 2025. This program reduces employees’ monthly base pay in exchange for paid leave credits. This position is subject to PLP 2025 and will have a monthly base pay reduction of 3% in exchange for 5 hours of leave credits for the duration of the program. The salary ranges shown on this job posting do not reflect the reduced amounts.

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Working Conditions

CalSTRS offers a hybrid approach including in-office and remote work solutions based on busine