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Network Engineer 1, 2, Senior

Location:

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Date: May 8, 2025

**Requisition ID** : 18715

Join us in building a better future for Arizona!

SRP is one of the largest public power and water utilities in the U.S. providing electricity to approximately one million customers in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Since its founding in 1903, SRP has fostered a culture of stewardship and customer service consistently ranking as an industry leader in customer service according to J.D. Power and named one of Arizona's best employers by Forbes. SRP continues to adapt to its changing business environment by seeking innovative ways to reimagine utility service and the provision of critical resources essential to the life and economy of Arizona.

Why Work at SRP

At SRP, we foster an inclusive work environment and believe everyone should have a fair chance to work, regardless of who they are. That’s why we value teams with diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to help SRP deliver on its mission of providing reliable, affordable and sustainable water and power.

SRP's success is rooted in our employees' happiness, health, and safety. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and enhance their well-being. In addition to competitive pay and performance incentives, eligible employees can take advantage of the following benefits:

+ Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee)

+ 401(k) plan with employer matching

+ Available your first day: Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance

+ Over 200+ hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave)

+ Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance

+ Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility)

+ Short and long-term disability plans

+ Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs

+ 10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking

Summary

We are looking to hire an experienced network engineer to help design, manage and maintain one of SRP's networks.

Acting as a network engineer, you will be responsible for helping build and deploy the new "greenfield" operations center as well as handling advanced support issues. While the focus of this role is on network layers 1-4 and related infrastructure, the ideal candidate is interested and willing to work with and/or learn within all layers of OSI model, from cabling to application troubleshooting. This position is extremely collaborative and must possess a desire, willingness, and ability to learn new things and help other team members in many areas.

What It Takes To Succeed

To ensure success in this position, you should have extensive experience working with enterprise datacenter infrastructure, including switching, routing, firewalls, servers, cabling, backup and restore, etc. In addition, you will be collaborating with other IT teams, and managing the "full stack" of a high performing enterprise level network.

What You'll Do

Network Engineer Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with team members to design and implement a secure, functional network

• Rack, cable, and configure networking hardware, including firewalls, Cisco switching, virtual server infrastructure, backup, and remote access solutions

• Deal with escalated network support issues, including occasional off-hours support.

• Understand and adhere to all related NERC CIP requirements

• Report to the HSOC Manager

• This position does require participating in an on-call rotation. Extra pay and overtime policies apply.

Network Engineer Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years cumulative and progressive hands-on experience as a systems administrator, network engineer or similar in an enterprise network environment.

• Experience building out "greenfield" enterprise network systems from the ground up, including configuring brand new equipment, is highly desired.

• Advanced knowledge of network systems including Cisco Nexus routing, Palo Alto firewalls, and knowledge of VMWare server virtualization. Industry certifications in these areas will be highly valued.

• Experience with monitoring an enterprise network and using common monitoring tools like SolarWinds or ScienceLogic.

• Familiarity with network analysis tools and experience troubleshooting network issues

• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills

• High level problem-solving and communication skills

• Operational Technology (OT) and/or Utility experience is highly desired

• Ability to work remote or on-site as needed, including various SRP sites (substation and generation). Minimum of 2 days a week in-off/on-site is required, but applicant needs to be available on-site more when work requires it.

Specific experience in the following areas is highly desired:

o Specific network equipment:

• Palo Alto Firewalls

• Cisco Route & Switch technologies (specifically Nexus 9k)

• F5 Load balancers

• Infoblox DNS

o Device event alerting and availability monitoring, specifically with ScienceLogic

o Installation and setup of new and replacement equipment

o ESX/VMWare virtual server infrastructure, including server event log monitoring, alerts, and maintenance

o Directory services (e.g., Active Directory)

o Antivirus Software Support (McAfee, Defender, etc.)

o Server equipment, builds, operating systems, and software

o Fiber and copper cabling, SFP's, QSFP's, etc.

Experience

• **For a Level 1 (Associate)** , a minimum of no previous years of experience to two years related experience is required (if no degree, four-six years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience totaling four-six years). • **For a Level 2 (Journey)** , a minimum of two years of experience to four years related experience is required (if no degree, six-eight years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience totaling six-eight years). • **For a Level 3 (Senior)** , a minimum of five years of related experience is required (if no degree, nine years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience totaling nine years).

Education

A bachelor’s degree related to the assignment from an accredited institution is preferred.

Hybrid Workplace

SRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed remotely, and who have sufficient technical capability, to telework up to three days per week. Although teleworking is available, all employees must live and work in Arizona.

Drug/Alcohol Policy Statement

To promote the safety and well-being of our employees, customers, and the communities we serve, SRP is committed to maintaining a drug/alcohol free work environment. Although marijuana may now be legal in Arizona, except as otherwise specified under Arizona law, SRP considers it to be an illegal drug for the purpose of our drug/alcohol policy because marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. Any candidate found to be impaired during the hiring process or who has the presence of an illegal drug or unauthorized substance in their system during the pre-employment drug/alcohol test may be disqualified from further consideration in the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Salt River Project (SRP) is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, or any other protected status under applicable federal, state or local law.

Work Authorization

All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Currently, SRP does not sponsor H1B visas, OPT, or other employment-related visa's.

**Nearest Major Market:** Phoenix