[Remote] Network Architect-22583

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rush University Medical Center is a nationally recognized academic medical center seeking a Network Architect to design, implement, and maintain their network infrastructure. The role involves serving as a subject matter expert for enterprise networking, ensuring seamless connectivity for clinicians, staff, and patients while leading initiatives across various network environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, deploy, maintain, and support the hospitals local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), Datacenters, Cloud infrastructure, 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
• Develop strategies and plan for infrastructure growth based on business demands
• Develop standards to help reduce error and reducing mean time to resolution for outages
• Plan and design tangible solutions that will improve performance of services within the Network Services portfolio
• Plan 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
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

• Subject matter expert for Cisco routers and switches platforms supporting LAN, WAN, Datacenter
• Bachelors Degree and 7 years of relevant experience in Networking or An associates degree and 9 years of relevant experience
• 7+ years of operational systems and support experience in a large networked WAN environment
• 3+ years of data center design
• SME for 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
• CCNP is preferred
• Cloud experience a plus
• Experience with Cisco DNA, ACI, SDN

Benefits

• Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits).

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