HEAnet - Student Network Engineer

HEAnet is Ireland’s National Research and Education Network, providing internet connectivity and ICT shared services across all levels of the Irish education system, reaching in excess of 1,000,000 end users. We connect learners and researchers across all of Ireland to education resources and to fellow national educational and research networks in Europe, and the rest of the world.

We are seeking a Student Network Engineer to join our Networks Team.

This role is based in our Dublin 1 office, with the option to work from home under our flexible remote working framework.

For more about who we are and our values, please visit: https://www.heanet.ie/who-we-are/who-we-are

About the Networks Team

The Networks team are responsible for the day-to-day operation of HEAnet's Network. As Irelands National Research & Education Network, we operate a large Internet Service Provider network providing internet access and other services to researchers and students across all levels of education & research.

Daily operations tasks include installation, maintenance and monitoring of more than 250 sites, and hundreds of network devices. In addition to day-to-day tasks, the Networks Team have multiple projects underway at any given time.

Recent projects include a full hardware refresh of edge equipment, a new datacentre network installation, and the development of a new network automation and provisioning platform.

Future projects include the expansion of Netbox as a single-source-of-truth platform, modernisation of graphing and performance monitoring tools, and a national scale project to refresh nearly 200 client premises devices, which will include the building of new automation tooling.

What you will be doing

We are seeking a student who has an interest in gaining real world experience in network technologies and internet infrastructure, and ideally someone who is interested in learning about network automation and orchestration using tools like Python and Ansible.

Technologies & Platforms include:

Juniper Networks hardware platforms and JunOS Operating System
Network routing technologies including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS
Optical Networking including CWDM, DWDM and Coherent Optics
Datacentre Environments and Networking
Python Programming for Workflow Automation
Ansible Automation
Netbox
Streaming Telemetry

What we are looking for

A candidate who is familiar with basic networking concepts, with an interest in Internet technologies and infrastructure
A candidate interested in learning how software development tools like Python are used to automate network operations
Good written and verbal communication.
Eagerness to learn and contribute as part of a collaborative team.

More important information

At HEAnet we celebrate diversity and understand how important it is to our ongoing success. We would like to hear from candidates who are great at what they do and whose values align with ours.

If you need any adjustments made to the application or selection process so you can do your best, please let us know.

HEAnet are delighted to be awarded with the Ibec Keep Well Mark. We take pride in developing, maintaining and enhancing our culture of wellbeing and continue to focus on this in 2025 and beyond.

Student Network Engineer

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