Network Engineer

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The Network Engineer, IT Enterprise Operations will be part of an industry leading IT team working in a fast-paced environment at PDS Health. Under the guidance of the Mgr, IT Enterprise Operations, this individual will be responsible for day-to-day tasks functioning primarily as mid to upper tier support through all phases of the project and hardware lifecycle. The Network Engineer, IT Enterprise Operations is also responsible for all aspects of the enterprise end-to-end network performance, with specific emphasis on ensuring efficient, reliable application and system services delivery to all constituents in the organization. Occasional travel to the datacenter and other company locations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in architecture reviews with IT groups, ensure supportability requirements and standards are followed.
• Develop new standards to maintain or improve stability and scalability of the current network environment with specific considerations to sustainability and future-proof design.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for network and system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage existing resources and provide economies of scale.
• Author documents that improve governance and librarianship with network-related architectures.
• Skilled in determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Daily maintenance and administration of various systems such as core network, wireless, and remote office network infrastructures, in both production and development environments. Resolve or report critical issues to the Mgr, Enterprise Operations for resolution.
• Provide intermediate and advanced tier support for troubleshooting various network, application and systems. Support all networking hardware.
• Install new and configure existing hardware in accordance with standards and project / operational requirements.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of network- related scheduled jobs.
• Perform network-related data backups and disaster recovery operations.
• Repair and recover from hardware, software, or circuit failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• General support of production systems as required.
• Apply patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities according to defined policies and standards.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
• Ability to mentor junior network administrators and engineers in all aspects of network design, operations, deployment, documentation and standards.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

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