Rush University Medical Center · 5 hours ago
Network Architect-22583
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$50.68/hr - $75.51/hr
7+ years expRush University Medical Center is a nationally recognized academic medical center dedicated to innovation and reliability in healthcare. The Network Architect will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the network infrastructure that supports patient care, research, and education, while collaborating with technical teams to optimize performance and ensure seamless connectivity.
Clinical TrialsEducationHealth CareMedicalTraining
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
CCNP is preferred
Cloud experience a plus
Experience with Cisco DNA, ACI, SDN
Company
Rush University Medical Center
Rush University Medical Center offers healthcare services for children and adults, clinical trials, medical education and training services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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unknownKey Investors
Parkinson's Foundation
2023-07-25Grant
Leadership Team
Richa Gupta
Chief Operating Officer, Rush University Medical Group
Courtney Cole Kammer
Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
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