Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Position Summary:
Join athenahealth as a Lead Network Engineer supporting the Chennai site, with flexibility to travel to Pune or Bangalore as needed. In this role, you will serve as the primary escalation point for complex network issues across wireless, LAN, WAN, and security environments. You will also help lead incident response, support design and upgrade work, and collaborate with vendors and technical teams across a multi-vendor global network environment. This role reports to the network engineering leadership team.
About the Team:
The network engineering team supports reliable connectivity and secure access across athenahealth’s global environments. The team manages infrastructure across wireless, switching, routing, VPN, firewalls, and related network services, and partners with vendor and peer teams to resolve issues and support ongoing improvements. The work includes incident response, capacity planning, monitoring, and change coordination in a complex enterprise environment. This role plays a key part in supporting the Chennai site and contributing to broader network operations and strategy.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary escalation point for Chennai site network issues across LAN, WAN, WLAN, and security layers.
- Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain networking and security equipment in a multi-vendor environment.
- Lead troubleshooting of complex incidents involving wireless, firewall, VPN, routing, and switching issues.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and provide onsite leadership during critical events.
- Coordinate with service providers, hardware and software vendors, and technical support partners to resolve issues.
- Track, report, and address network capacity and performance concerns.
- Provision and manage site-to-site IPsec VPNs and WAN connectivity with carriers and service providers.
- Follow IT change control and incident management practices.
- Collaborate with peer engineering teams on network design, automation, and long-term strategy.
- Use AI-enabled tools to help analyze incident patterns, summarize troubleshooting findings, and support documentation or capacity planning work, while validating outputs before use in operational decisions.
Additional Job Responsibilities:
- Provide onsite support in Bangalore or Pune when needed for major incidents or implementations.
- Support network design reviews and implementation planning.
- Contribute to process improvements and operational consistency.
- Assist with knowledge sharing and mentoring across the team.
- Help maintain accurate documentation for network systems and procedures.
Expected Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of professional experience in network engineering, including production 24x7 environments.
- Experience with wireless implementation, operations, and troubleshooting; Aruba experience preferred.
- Strong multi-vendor experience with Juniper, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell SONiC, and VeloCloud.
- Hands-on experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Global Protect preferred.
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP, routing, and switching protocols.
- Experience with firewall, VPN, and network security technologies.
- Familiarity with public and private cloud networking.
- Working knowledge of Linux networking troubleshooting.
- Understanding of structured cabling standards and physical layer troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Git, Python, and EVPN/VXLAN preferred.
- Knowledge of macOS and Windows at the operating system level is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in network engineering
- Expertise in Wireless networking, Aruba preferred
- Experience with Palo Alto firewall and VPN technologies
- Knowledge of multiple vendor solutions (Juniper, Dell SONiC, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
athenahealth Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about athenahealth and has not been reviewed or approved by athenahealth.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision options alongside additional protections like accident and critical illness coverage. Mental health support and EAP-style counseling resources are also part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-away offerings include PTO that covers vacation and sick time, paid holidays, and options for leaves of absence and sabbaticals. Flexible time off is positioned as a meaningful part of the overall rewards package for some roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with employer matching, supported by broader financial wellbeing resources. Equity and performance bonuses are also referenced as part of total rewards.
athenahealth Insights
What We Do
athenahealth strives to cure complexity and simplify the practice of healthcare. Our innovative technology includes electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement solutions that help healthcare providers, administrators, and practices eliminate friction for patients while getting paid efficiently. athenahealth partners with practices with purpose-built software backed by expertise to produce the insights needed to drive better clinical and financial outcomes. We’re inspired by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
We are here to make an impact on the healthcare industry at scale. We enable our diverse teams to move fast, grapple with interesting technical challenges, and innovate at every level. We are on a modernization journey and build on the hybrid cloud. We deliver best-in-class solutions to help every patient receive the best possible care.
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