Providence · 16 hours ago
Principal Network Engineer IS
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$102.02/hr - $136.08/hr
8+ years expProvidence is a comprehensive health care organization serving over 50 hospitals and 1,000 clinics across the United States. They are seeking a Principal Network Engineer to partner with various teams to design and implement service architectures that meet compliance and operational standards, ensuring high availability and quality of service.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Partners with Engineering, Development, QA, and Program/Project Management peers to translate caregiver, business and technical requirements into components of a service architecture, ensuring that the service will meet compliance and operability standards, and KPIs around resilience, availability, quality, cost, and caregiver expectations
Creates and identifies standards and best practices and is responsible for building and implementing required architecture in partnership with other IS engineering teams
Designs components of a service delivery system that defines tools, hardware, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation, resulting in a complete system that supports service delivery and meets KPIs
Creates detailed project plans including milestones, testing, documentation and implementation
Communicates with stakeholders and applies advanced diagnostic expertise to restore service with minimal disruption to the caregiver and business
During service disruptions and degradations, owns the problem, solving it once and for all
Extrapolates from past experiences and delivers innovations
Actively takes part in disaster recovery drills
Participates as needed in incident response management during non-working hours
Owns the design, implementation, testing, and management of alerting and telemetry systems, and disaster recovery and business continuity plans in partnership with other engineering teams to support 24x7 uptime goals
Makes recommendations on capacity requirements, based on service KPIs, evolving caregiver usage scenarios, and proposed new feature releases to enable the team to create a viable cost model
Works with stakeholders to create a cost model and reporting system that enables teams to forecast, track, and report on the costs generated by business and usage scenarios
Maximizes the effectiveness of financial resources
Uses expertise to identify potential platform, system, deployment, security and environmental issues prior to service and solution releases, ensuring an on-time release with measurable improvement in KPIs
Develops and maintains effective processes to automate tasks and ensure compliance with security policies and drives the adoption of a solution across multiple service teams
Owns service and infrastructure lifecycle planning to ensure critical software and hardware components are kept current
Responsible for the information management of applications, device, and infrastructure data inside the CMDB (Configuration Management Database) and associated systems
Establishes service metrics, based on a deep understanding of the end-to-end service, and works with partner teams to analyze data, and identify and drive service improvements
Regularly analyzes operational cost data, identifies cost-saving efficiencies, and influences the business to adopt these efficiencies across the service team
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Technology Management, or closely related
8 years experience (or 5 years with Master's degree) as a Network Engineer, including at least 2 years experience in the healthcare industry
8 years experience (or 5 years with Master's degree) in automation, specifically related to deployment, recovery, or other manual processes
8 years experience (or 5 years with Master's degree) with scripting with one of PowerShell, Perl, Ansible, VB Script, Python, SQL
8 years experience (or 5 years with Master's degree) with n-tier solutions
8 years experience (or 5 years with Master's degree) with resilience modeling (failure mode analysis) and ability to simulate service outages for point solutions (automated) and platforms (manually)
Past professional experience influencing engineering team members in translating customer and technical requirements into service architecture to meet Quality of Service Expectations
Past professional experience leading and representing the Service in backlog discussions and standups to establish appropriate prioritization of Live Site requirements
8 years experience (or 5 years with Master's degree) leveraging data and metrics to drive behavior, process, and priority decisions
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
Strong experience in advanced problem solving using systematic procedures and investigating problems utilizing root cause analysis
Benefits
Health care benefits (medical, dental, vision)
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues)
Voluntary benefits
Well-being resources
401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching
Company
Providence
Every day, 119,000 compassionate caregivers serve patients and communities through Providence St.
10001+ employees
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Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Brad Henry
Chief Executive Officer at Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center
Ranjit S. Hundal, MD, MBA, CPE, FACP, SFHM
Interim Chief Executive Officer
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