Network Engineer

Professional - Non-Clinical Kirkland, Washington

Department: Information Technology
Job Type: Full-Time Shift: Day
Hours/Week: 40
Req: 50090
Minimum Salary: 92,144
Maximum Salary: 147,451


Description

Wage Range: $92,144 - $147,451 per year

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EvergreenHealth understands that our engineers make an essential contribution to our success. We believe in working together to enrich the health and well-being of every life we touch, every day. We are just about to begin transition to our next generation firewall solution, so this is a great time to join us and grow our community hospital!
 
Job Summary:
As a network engineer you will build, deploy, refresh, and maintain networking solutions including management and automation solutions. You will provide on-site and remote support to our colleagues who have critical response time requirements for their healthcare technology systems.  You will work independently and as part of the Network Operations team to answer service calls, urgently analyze technical issues, address tier-two escalations, work with the project manager on team related projects, and resolve issues via Teams/on-site/via remote access. You will work directly with clinical and administration stakeholders to plan and implement technology refresh projects, considering the high-availability requirements of a clinical network.
 
This role will be responsible for maintaining the design and integrity of EvergreenHealth’s internal/external network, including patient-facing and clinical environments. The incumbent will provide expert technical assistance to IT team members with high-level system and networking requests. This role is responsible for testing, implementing, and supporting complex infrastructure aligned with the requirements of EvergreenHealth’s business and clinical environment spread across multiple campuses and physical locations. 
 
Primary Duties:
  1. Deploy, manage, maintain, and refresh multi-vendor, multi-protocol data center, edge networks
  2. Deploy, manage maintain, and refresh wireless infrastructure
  3. Deploy, manage maintain, and refresh remote access solutions
  4. Deploy, manage maintain, and refresh new network security solutions
  5. Develop and maintain monitoring metrics to assure optimal network performance and ongoing improvement
  6. Analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes to network issues
  7. Maintain a thorough inventory of network related assets including depreciable and useful life
  8. Recommend refresh and replacement requirements in support of annual operating and capital budgeting processes
  9. Manage, monitor, and maintain Data Center, Campus, and Branch location network equipment.
  10. Perform wired and wireless network assessments and audits
  11. Participate in the administration and maintenance of the remote monitoring and management system: update agent scripts, respond to alerts, monitor dashboard, and periodic system review
  12. Work with Project Managers to identify new products and solutions, and research solutions for existing systems|
  13. Work with vendors to investigate new equipment and services as they become available
  14. Communication with colleagues and leadership as required: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes or agreed outages
  15. Be available for other engineers and coach them in your areas of expertise
  16. Participate in 24-7 on call rotation
  17. Other duties as assigned.
 
License, Certification, Education or Experience:
REQUIRED for the position:
•Bachelor’s degree in technical and/or business-related field or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
•Minimum of 4 years of experience in a network engineering/support position.
•Strong attention to detail and process.
•Ability to prioritize workloads and deliver timely resolutions.
•Ability to document technical solutions, including as-built diagrams. 
•Self-starter with the ability manage projects to completion.
•Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills conducive to team development.
•Dependable, flexible, and willing to work in a 24/7 environment (Rotational Shifts).
•Proficient in at least one scripting language
•Campus and Data Center Switching (Capacity Planning & VLANs)
•Cisco Routing (OSPF, BGP)
•Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching or equivalent experience
•Cisco CCNA Security or equivalent experience
•Cisco Meraki Wireless, Gateway, and Switching experience
HPE Aruba experience
DESIRED for the position:
•Palo Alto Firewalls
•NAC/TACACS/RADIUS
•PRTG
•VPN Clients
•Experience operating in clinical environments
•Experience automating network deployment and monitoring 
•Experience with hosting providers, online services, or internet service provider environment  
Benefit Information:
Choices that care for you and your family 
At EvergreenHealth, we appreciate our employees’ commitment and contribution to our success. We are proud to offer a suite of quality benefits and resources that are comprehensive, flexible, and competitive to help our staff and their loved ones maintain and improve health and financial well-being. 
  • Medical, vision and dental insurance
  • On-demand virtual health care
  • Health Savings Account
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement plans 457(b) and 401(a) with employer contribution)
  • Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees
  • Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
  • Paid Time Off/Vacation
  • Extended Illness Bank/Sick Leave
  • Paid holidays
  • Voluntary hospital indemnity insurance
  • Voluntary identity theft protection
  • Voluntary legal insurance
  • Pay in lieu of benefits premium program
  • Free parking
  • Commuter benefits
  • Cafeteria & Gift Shop Discount 
View a summary of our total rewards available to you as an EvergreenHealth team member by clicking on the link below.
 
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