Network Analyst

Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc.•Lexington, KY

About The Position

The Network Analyst will be accountable for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing network performance to ensure high availability with minimum downtime.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree or (1) relevant network certification
2+ years related IT experience
5 Years’ experience
Basic awareness of problem solving and decision-making skills
Basic awareness of digital literacy skills
Basic awareness of networking

Responsibilities

Monitor network performance and optimize as necessary.
Analyze and resolve network issues and outages.
Understanding of core network hardware.
Understanding of the phone system and all of its components.
Manage all wide area network components and transport layer circuits.
Identify vulnerability and configuration issues.
Provide timely network health reports; to include traffic analyzation of LAN and WAN traffic statistics.
Provide active real time monitoring of the network and assure an emergency response in network failures to procure temporary restoral measures in the event of a network failure.
Recommend improvements to support network scalability and availability.
Provide and update records of all network hardware and associated circuits.
Assure network redundancy and route diversity is functional and available for network failures and restoration.
Ensure MDFs and IDFs have space for growth (room and rack), emergency power, UPS connectivity, wire management, and security. Ensure rooms are organized and uncluttered. Work with Operations as necessary.
Timely closure of Summit tickets.
Support upgrades and projects.
Collaboration with all IT teams.
Maintains confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ARH information.
Complies with applicable internal and external policies, standards, laws, and regulations related to ARH information.
Performs other related duties, tasks, and responsibilities as required or assigned.