Infrastructure Engineer

Position Type:

Administration and Professionals

Date Posted:

2026-09-14

Location: East Professional Center

ABOUT CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students.

CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.

Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.

BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES

The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school. BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

• Location: Administration or As Assigned
• Reports to: Infrastructure Solutions Architect
• FLSA Status: Exempt
• Salary Band: 7
• Compensation: $ 68,891.00 - $ 93,003.00

**Internal applicants are required to upload a resume to their application**

• The Infrastructure Engineer is the District's senior hands-on engineer for enterprise network and cloud infrastructure. Reporting to the Infrastructure Solutions Architect (ISA), the Engineer builds, configures, operates, and troubleshoots the platforms that carry every instructional and operational system in the District — the Cisco Meraki campus and wireless estate across all school sites, the data center and administrative network, the District's SD-WAN and carrier transport, and the network foundation of the Azure environment that now hosts the majority of District workloads.
• Where the ISA sets architecture, standards, and roadmap, the Engineer implements those standards and owns day-to-day engineering outcomes: designs are turned into working configurations, changes are planned and executed within approved windows, and faults are isolated and resolved. The Engineer is expected to work independently on complex problems, to propose design alternatives back to the ISA with supporting analysis, and to serve as the District's deepest source of operational knowledge on the network estate.
• As a secondary assignment, the Engineer serves as a backup and day-to-day implementer on the District's endpoint and device management platforms, and supports the District's remaining on-premises platform services — VMware vSphere, Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, file, print, and SMTP relay
• — as legacy services, while continuing migration to Azure equivalents.
• This is an individual contributor role. The Engineer provides technical guidance and mentorship to Specialists, Administrators, and building technicians, but does not carry supervisory responsibility; day-to-day task assignment and performance management sit with the ISA.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Network Engineering and Operations

Engineer, configure, deploy, and maintain the District's Networking estate: security appliances and their NextGen Layer 7 functions, Layer 3 distribution and Layer 2 access switches, and wireless access points across all school sites.

Maintain Layer 3 services delivered at the site edge, including DHCP scopes, relay, and inter-VLAN routing hosted on the Layer 3 switches at each building.

Engineer and support the data center and administrative network, including data center switching and routing platforms (OSPF/BGP as deployed), QoS, and network segmentation.

Support the District's SD-WAN and WAN transport, site turn-ups, path policy, failover behavior, and carrier fault isolation and escalation.

• •Implement and maintain network segmentation, access control lists, VPN services, and Network Access Control integrations in accordance with architecture standards and Cybersecurity requirements.
• •Perform switch, firewall, and appliance firmware lifecycle management; plan and execute upgrades inside approved change windows.
• •Support fiber and structured cabling projects with Facilities, Capital Improvements, and District contractors: validate designs, confirm circuit and patching records, and commission or decommission new, renovated, or repurposed buildings.

Serve as the District's internal escalation point for network faults raised by IT Customer Excellence, building technicians, and site staff — the level above front-line support, below vendor engineering.

Own the onward escalation path once District-side troubleshooting is exhausted: open and drive cases directly with the network platform support vendor and engage the District's network managed service provider for enterprise and data center network platforms. Provide the diagnostic detail the case requires, stay engaged through resolution, and confirm the fix rather than handing the fault off

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (Azure)

Own the network foundation of the District's Azure presence: ExpressRoute circuits, peering and gateways, the routing relationship between ExpressRoute and the District's SD-WAN transport, virtual network and subnet design, route tables, network security groups, and name resolution across the on-premises boundary.

Engineer Azure IaaS in partnership with the Server Administrator and the District's managed service provider, who carry day-to-day administration: sizing, placement, connectivity, resiliency, and the design decisions that follow from District architecture standards.

Assist in defining the backup, replication, and recovery configuration infrastructure workloads are held to — retention, recovery objectives, and replication targets — and validate that what is implemented and reported meets it; participate in recovery testing and document results.

Support workload migration from on-premises platforms to Azure equivalent services: network readiness, dependency assessment, cutover execution, and post-migration validation, with the Server Administrator and the managed service provider.

Provide depth behind the Server Administrator on Azure infrastructure work during absence, escalation, or a major incident.

Validate that Azure work delivered by the managed service provider meets District architecture and security standards; provide technical input on capacity, performance, and cost.

Apply infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices to network and connectivity builds where standards call for it; maintain scripts and runbooks to District coding standards

Wi-Fi Engineering and Surveyin g

Deploy, tune, and troubleshoot District wireless in line with WLAN standards: