Rush University Medical Center Hiring for Sr. Network Engineer – Full Time; Hybrid Position Job at Chicago, IL Full Time

Job Title: Sr. Network Engineer – Full Time; Hybrid Position
Department: Network Administration
Shift: 1st
Specialty: Networking Technologies
Job Number: 2022-5211
Date Posted: 01/10/2023
Position Type: Information Services

Job Qualifications:

Sr. Network Engineer

Hybrid Position

Rush University Medical Center is one of the country’s leading medical centers pushing the boundaries of healthcare services with innovative, compassionate, and accountable team members. Are you ready to challenge and grow your skills, contribute to providing top quality patient care, and enhance your career? Rush is a diverse and inclusive culture, and offers a competitive salary, and a valuable compensation package including health, dental and vision benefits, retirement, health savings accounts, and tuition assistance to invest in your future.

As a Sr. Network Engineer for Rush University Medical Center, you will act as a SME for all Network technologies, while supporting the administration and configuration of a variety of networking hardware and applications. This role will allow you to demonstrate your expertise in the troubleshooting, assessment, management, and implementation of network infrastructure including but not limited to LAN, WAN, DMZ and the Datacenter. You will lead initiatives in managing and enhancing the overall health of the network infrastructure to ensure business continuity and maximum up-time. You will work with various teams to drive projects that align with business needs and objectives both on campus as well as remote sites. You will have SME level understanding of routing and switching technologies. You will communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences while managing and further enhancing the delivery of network connectivity offered to the organization across multiple platforms.
The Sr. Network Engineer exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures.
Position Highlights
Rush is heavily invested in ongoing infrastructure upgrades, ACI data center refreshes, DNAC Deployments, and a Campus Network Refresh. We will be constructing new buildings requiring significant investment in large-scale deployment.
This full time position offers a hybrid structure, healthy living benefits including time off, retirement and education assistance.

Our generous education assistance programs can be used for higher education, continuing education, and professional certifications.
Position Responsibilities:

Plan, design, deploy, maintain, and support the hospitals local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), datacenters, including routers, firewalls, switches, VPN appliances, wiring and other hardware as assigned.
Monitor the network to ensure security of data and access privileges.
Analyze and resolve network hardware and software problems in a timely and accurate fashion and provide end-user assistance and training where required.
Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards in support of network procurement and development efforts.
Plan and implement network hardware upgrades, maintenance fixes, and vendor-supplied patches.
Define metrics, monitor, and test and troubleshoot network performance and provide network performance statistics and reports.
Recommend, schedule, and perform network improvements, upgrades, and repairs.
Collaborate with IT management and staff, departments, and other agencies in the development, deployment, and support of new network-based programs and applications.
Provide guidance and technical support to peers and serve as an escalation point for help desk related issues.
Develop, maintain, and ensure the accuracy and completeness of network related technical documentation as needed. Help drive a consistent set of standards for equipment, configuration, and operational procedures.
Coordinate with other team members, court departments and agencies to deliver solutions and configuration items without impacting hospital operations and or patient safety.
Communicate service disruptions.
Position Requirements:

CCNP Route Switch or Enterprise

Subject matter expert for Cisco routers and switches platforms supporting LAN, WAN, Datacenter

7 years of relevant experience in Networking.
7+ years of operational systems and support experience in a large networked WAN environment
7+ years of data center design
Excellent working knowledge of network protocols and concepts such as Spanning tree, EIGRP, BGP, HSRP, VOIP, QOS, TCP/IP, 802.1q, 802.1x, MPLS, DNS, Syslog, TACACS, SD-WAN, OSPF
Ability to work with network security devices such as Cisco IDS/IPS devices, F5, Firepower, Juniper, Palo Alto, ASA, and ACS with an understanding of how to baseline and set alerting features of IDS signatures and work with security policies
Demonstrated ability on WAN infrastructure consisting of a mixture of MPLS, Point to Point, Internet and DMVPN technologies utilizing SD-WAN appliances
Experience with network access control technologies such as 802.1x
Working knowledge of remote access VPNs (IPSEC, global protect, DMVPN)
Proficient with monitoring and logging tools for access management and troubleshooting using tools such as Syslog, ACS, Netflow (Plixer scrutinizer) Solarwinds and protocol analyzers
Prior experience using industry established project management techniques in accomplishing strategic objectives
Experienced with ITSM functionalities such as change control, CMDB, ticket system
In depth understanding of disaster recovery, design, implementation, and testing
SME for routing and switching technologies
SME for IP Addressing and Subnetting, including design and implementation
SME for DNS and DHCP, including design and implementation
SME for VLANs and networking to support servers and storage
Experience supporting large wireless networks environment with Cisco and Meraki
Experience with Quality of Service, for Voice and Video
Ability and availability to work occasional nights/weekends assignments as necessary.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and within a team environment to ensure performance, reliability, and security in a dynamic 24-7-365 production network environment
Some travel may be required
Customer focused attitude
Excellent communications skills both written and verbal
Preferred Job Qualifications:
CCIE is a huge plus
Experienced with VoIP technologies preferred
Cloud experience a plus
Experience with Cisco DNA, ACI, and Meraki SDN preferred
Company Highlights:
Rush is an academic health system comprising Rush University Medical Center, Rush Copley Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital.
For demonstrating leadership in the use of information technology, Rush University Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital have been listed among the most wired hospitals in the nation by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
Ranked among the top academic medical centers in the country, Rush University Medical Center is an outstanding place to enhance your career. Everything we do centers on one goal: improving patient care.

Rush offers a competitive salary, and valuable healthy living benefits including: health, dental and vision to help you maintain and improve your health. Rush also offers several ways to invest in your future.

Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.