Network Engineer Job at Penn

We have an opening for a Senior Network Engineer in the University of Pennsylvania's Engineering group.

        https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=197742

This position will be part of a small team that works very closely with our Network Operations group, offering final tier escalated support, researching new network designs, architectures & technologies, evaluating new equipment, designing and deploying related software and hardware systems.

The Engineering group is also involved in designing and operating a range of other services, including DNS, DHCP, Authentication & Authorization systems, Voice over IP, etc. So there are opportunities to get involved in many areas.

The candidate for this position will generally need to have a strong networking and programming background, as well as strong familiarity with UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems.

Former Student to Caltech and CERN

In addition to my full time job, I sometimes teach a course in Penn's Engineering School - specifically a Telecom Lab course on network protocols (mostly routing). The material covered in the course includes interior routing protocols like RIP, OSPF, and IS-IS; BGP for exterior routing; Multicast Routing; and MPLS (traffic engineering, Layer-2 and Layer-3 VPNs). I also cover the DNS and DHCP protocols in a fair amount of detail. All the lab assignments use both IPv4 and IPv6 extensively.

Indira is one of my former students, and also served as my teaching assistant the semester following the one during which she took the class. She just graduated (Masters Degree in Telecommunications) and is moving to Geneva, Switzerland for a full time job. She stopped in to see me last week on the day she was leaving and we snapped a few photos together.

The job is a full time network engineer position with Caltech, but based at CERN in Switzerland, working with some Caltech colleagues I know (Artur Barczyk, Azher Mughal, Harvey Newman) from Internet2 and various other R&E conferences. Among other things, Caltech is involved in operating USLHCNet, a very high speed network that provides transatlantic connectivity between computing facilities at CERN's  Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and computing facilities at major US particle accelerator labs like Fermilab and Brookhaven.

Harvey was also one of the principal investigators for the NSF funded DYNES (Dynamic Network System) project, of which Penn is a participant. DYNES, via the Internet2 network infrastructure, provides dynamically allocated dedicated point to point circuits between remote research labs (a common endpoint is the LHC). Penn researchers were involved in building the LHC's ATLAS detector, and played a role in the Higgs particle discovery last year.

Congratulations and good luck to Indira - I'm sure she has a bright and productive career ahead of her. She left me a small gift - a box of chocolates from Kazakhstan, pictured below. The box is almost too attractive to open, so I haven't yet.

Another talented former student and Teaching Assistant, Sangeetha had been working for me part time in Penn's Networking department on various projects. She also recently left (due to her advisor leaving Penn), transferring into the Ph.D program (CS) at the UIUC.

I'm planning to cancel my teaching appointment, since I don't really have the time for it, given the demands of my full time job. I originally decided to teach the course as a favor to my colleague, Roch Guerin, but it's actually been quite a fun and rewarding experience for me (and hopefully my students). However, now that Roch is leaving Penn to take the CS department chair position at the University of Washington at St. Louis, it looks like Penn is winding down the TCOM program anyway - a good time for me to make an exit.

I'm planning to write a more detailed blog post about my teaching experience at Penn. More on that later.

--Shumon Huque.

Network Engineer openings at Penn

We have two job openings at the University of Pennsylvania for Network Engineers.

1. Network Engineer or Senior Network Engineer
https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=195121

This position is part of our Network Operations group which deploys and operates Penn's production campus network (data/voice/video), and the area gigapop (MAGPI - http://www.magpi.net/). This is a traditional network engineer position requiring expertise in network protocols at various layers. I expect this job will initially have a strong focus on design and operation of our wireless network.

2. Senior Network Engineer
https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=195853
http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=3415100

This position is part of our Network Engineering group (which I lead). This group works very closely with Network Operations, offering final tier escalated support, researching new network designs, architectures, technologies, evaluating new equipment, designing and deploying related software and hardware systems. At Penn, the Network Engineering group also includes folks that run a number of other systems (DNS, DHCP, Authentication, Authorization, etc). We work with many cutting edge things (IPv6, DNSSEC, Openflow, etc). The candidate for this position will generally need to have a strong networking and programming background, as well as strong familiarity with UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems.