Senior Network Analyst

Fermilab is America’s premier laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.  We support discovery science experiments in Illinois and at locations around the world, including deep underground mines in South Dakota and Canada, mountaintops in Arizona and Chile, and the South Pole.

We are strategic risk takers, innovators, and collaborators. We are engineers, scientists, technicians, administrative professionals. We are 1,800 employees advancing knowledge for the benefit of humankind. Fermilab has been at the forefront of particle physics for more than 40 years. We build world-leading accelerators and detectors to conduct some of the most advanced particle physics experiments possible. We collect and analyze the data from those experiments with some of the most powerful computers in the world. We conduct this research on a 6,800-acre prairie, 35 miles outside Chicago, a treasure that has been designated a National Environmental Research Park.

Fermilab is the largest particle physics and accelerator laboratory in North America, and is the host for many national and international physics experiments including the Large Hadron Collider(LHC), Deep Underground Neutrino experiment (DUNE), NOvA and many others. On average, over 600TB of data needs to be transferred daily between global sites.  This makes networking a major component of the laboratory’s infrastructure.  Spanning 6800-acres, the lab’s network includes over 700 wireless access points, nearly 500 switches and routers, and over 400Gb of WAN bandwidth. 

As a Senior Network Analyst, you will be working a multidisciplinary collaborative environment as a member of the team as well as independently to ensure the safe and reliable operations of a large-scale high-performance network.  You will be providing primary support for one or several areas of networking to serve the needs of science experiments and general purpose campus users. Day to day duties will include configuring, administering, deploying, decommissioning various switches and routers,  security appliances, application delivery controllers and access control servers at the high-performance datacenter and experiments’ halls.  You will  provide Tier-1 and Tier2 support for operational issues.  Secondary duties will include  design efforts to constantly evolving Fermilab’s network to the next generation architectures and capabilities. Job duties will also include recommending and deploying improvements/upgrades to existing systems, deploying new network systems, and evaluating performance and security for existing network systems. 

You will analyze and plan for anticipated changes in network capacity requirements, determine methods/procedures for new assignments and provide guidance to network personnel facilitating the transfer of knowledge of technologies. 

You must be able to work under general supervision; respect, understand, and value individual differences that embody the principles of diversity; and abide by all environment, safety and health regulations.

Fermi National Accelerator's Network Services Group seeks a Senior Network Analyst to join our diverse workforce. The successful candidate should possess the required qualifications and experience, and several of the following skills:

HUMAN FACTORS: Mental Concentration, Sitting, Standing, and Visually Demanding.

 

FRA encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated and boosted to prevent transmission of COVID-19 and to mitigate against severe illness from infection. Upon employment with FRA, all employees must state their vaccination status. Please note that all vaccination and testing requirements are subject to change. Testing of unvaccinated employees may be required for Fermilab site access, depending on community transmission levels.

Fermilab is an Equal Opportunity Employer and believes a diverse and inclusive environment based on mutual respect is essential to our mission. Fermilab is committed to recruiting and developing the most hardworking people and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, country of birth, geography/postal code, disability, marital status, parental or gestational status, or other non-merit factor.