Classification: Contract
Contract Length: 12- months
Position Summary:
Provide Enterprise data networking designs, services, consulting, and support in a fortune 100 company environment with national reach. These responsibilities will require the candidate to be a Subject Matter Expert across network technologies, services, and additional related components (as listed for this position). The candidate must provide solutions that meet HCA network requirements and maintain networking service levels.
This position will interact daily with the Availability Center, Customer Support, Business Partners, Vendors, IT&S personnel, as well as the end users on developing network solutions to meet business requirements. Excellent written and oral communications skills regarding presentations, technical white papers, and network proposals will be required. Project management and problem management skills are required to effectively meet business objectives and Service Level Agreements.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain complex nation-wide, enterprise WAN/LAN solutions, utilizing best practice switching/routing technologies and topologies. (ie: Fortune 100 experience in network design, deployment and support)
- In-depth understanding of OSI model
- Layer 1 technologies including fiber optic cabling, copper cabling, patch panels, and connector types
- Layer 2 technologies including VTP, ISL and 802.1Q trunking, spanning-tree, VLANs
- OSPF/BGP routing protocols, IP advertising/filtering/redistribution, Quality of Service, IP multicast
- Engineering consultations for Level III network troubleshooting/problem resolution, protocol analysis, network troubleshooting/problem determination skills with network trace/capture/analysis software
- Understanding of end-to-end data flows and traffic patterns.
- Network impact analysis, modeling, network capacity planning
- Software/hardware device upgrades, LAN equipment configurations/provisioning (see specific technologies within Area of Experience section).
- IP addressing, variable length subnet masking
- Wide Area Network technology provisioning and configuration (i.e. MPLS, ATM, Frame Relay) and WAN equipment configurations for bandwidth rates from sub-rate T1 to 10Gb, as well as Metro-E connectivity from 10Mb to 10Gb
- Networking services such as AAA, DHCP, DNS, ICMP and SNMP
- Design and implementation for network security technologies and products (Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, Juniper SSL and Citrix NetScaler)
- Remote access technologies (i.e. SSL-VPN, IPSec, B2B, private line).
- F5 BigIP load-balancing design and configuration
- Enterprise WLAN experience a plus
- Creating/maintaining/following network standards and policies/procedural documentation and enterprise level network diagramming
- Certification, Proof of Concept, and/or integration testing.
- Working with vendors on product design enhancements to integrate new technologies
- Project Management and problem management skillsets
- Meet IT&S change management and project management requirements
- ITIL Knowledge
- Minimal travel for network analysis, network upgrades and customer network consultations
- Act as a technical lead for projects, ensuring work is being completed accurately and on-time
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or similar field
- 7+ years of Network Engineer experience
- Experience working with Firewalls (Check Point), VPN technologies, basic routing knowledge, load balancer (F5), Cisco
- Candidates must have excellent communication skills
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in information technology or a similar field
- 7+ years of Network Engineer experience
- Experience with Check Point firewalls
- Experience with VPN technologies
- Basic routing knowledge
- Experience with F5 load balancers
- Experience with Cisco
- Excellent communication skills
What We Do
CereCore provides EHR implementations, IT and application support, IT managed services, technical staffing, strategic IT consulting and advisory services to hospitals and health systems nationwide. Our heritage is in the hallways of some of America’s top performing hospitals. We have served as leaders in finance, operations, technology, data security and as clinicians turned power users and innovators. At CereCore, we know firsthand the power that aligned technology can provide in delivering care. As a wholly owned subsidiary of HCA, we are committed to bringing the expertise we have gained as operators to deliver IT services that emphatically address the needs of health systems across the United States. Our team of over 600 clinical and technical professionals has implemented EHR systems in more than 300 facilities and provides managed services support to tens of thousands of health system employees. We work tirelessly to provide healthcare organizations specialized IT services that support the delivery of patient care. IT Services linked with an operator heart.
