[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 reputed company 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
• reputed company strategies and plan for infrastructure growth based on business demands
• reputed company standards to help reduce error and reducing mean time to resolution for outages
• Plan and design reputed company solutions that will improve performance of services reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company for help desk reputed company issues
• reputed company, maintain, and ensure the accuracy and completeness of network reputed company 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
• reputed company other duties as assigned

Skills

• Subject matter expert for reputed company 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 reputed company devices such as reputed company IDS/IPS devices, reputed company, Firepower, Juniper, Palo Alto, ASA, and ACS with an understanding of how to baseline and set alerting features of IDS signatures and work with reputed company policies
• Demonstrated ability on WAN infrastructure consisting of a mixture of MPLS, reputed company to reputed company, 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) reputed company and protocol analyzers
• Prior experience using industry established project management techniques in accomplishing strategic objectives
• reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company a team environment to ensure performance, reliability, and reputed company 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 reputed company 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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