Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below:

HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include: comprehensive medical coverage, additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more. Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing, 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay, Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock, family support, consumer discounts, retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships, education assistance, colleague recognition program, time away from work program, and Employee Health Assistance Fund.

We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

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. 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 are required. Project management and problem management skills are required to effectively meet business objectives and service level agreements.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Design, deploy, and maintain complex nationwide, enterprise WAN/LAN solutions, utilizing best practice switching/routing technologies and topologies.
• 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
• 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 skill sets
• 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

Areas of expertise include:

• Cisco Data Networking Technologies
• Layer 1-2 (i.e., Trunking, VLANs, STP, Multicast, PPP, Frame/Relay, ATM, MPLS, Metro-E)
• Layer 3 (i.e., OSPF, BGP, Cisco VRFs, QOS, ACLs, Route redistribution, MPLS-VPNs, etc.)
• Network Management Tools (i.e., CiscoWorks, Voyence, IP-SLA, Netflow, SMNP, logging, etc.)
• Network Security (i.e., ACLs, Route-maps, IOS Firewall, ASA, routing protocol authentication, etc…)
• General Enterprise Security knowledge (i.e., Network design knowledge within a 1300+ router and 100+ FW environment.)
• Developing capacity planning strategies used by operational departments.
• Troubleshooting complex nation-wide network issues.
• IP management standards.
• Network Services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, etc.)
• Voice over IP knowledge is a plus.
• Video over IP knowledge is a plus.
• RFP experience
• Training and presenting technical material to others, including leadership.
• Budgeting experience.
• Leadership qualities.

Experience: 5+ years of networking experience required.

Special qualifications: Must be able to excel in a very close working team environment. Must be able to function autonomously, when needed. High degree of initiative and self-motivation. Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Physical demands/working conditions: Must be able to lift network components to build, rack and configure the devices. Some after-hours work will be required occasionally. Possible prolonged sitting at workstation.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Senior Network Engineer opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today! We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.