Network Architect

Rush University Medical Center•Chicago, IL

43d•$51 - $76•Remote

About The Position

Join a nationally recognized academic medical center where innovation and reliability meet purpose. As a Network Architect at Rush University Medical Center, you'll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the secure, high-performance network infrastructure that powers our patient care, research, and education missions. In this role, you'll serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise networking - leading initiatives across LAN, WAN, data center, and cloud environments. You'll architect resilient solutions, optimize performance, and drive improvements that ensure seamless connectivity for clinicians, staff, and patients alike. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate across technical teams, apply your expertise in advanced routing, switching, and security technologies, and shape the future of network services at one of the nation's top healthcare organizations. While the role may be performed remotely, the selected candidate will be expected to travel to the Rush campus in Chicago up to four times per year for strategic meetings focused on network design, planning, and roadmap reviews. If you're passionate about building robust, scalable, and secure networks that make a real-world impact, we'd love to have you on our team.

Requirements

Subject matter expert for Cisco 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 security devices such as Cisco IDS/IPS devices, F5, Firepower, Juniper, Palo Alto, ASA, and ACS with an understanding of how to baseline and set alerting features of IDS signatures and work with security policies
Demonstrated ability on WAN infrastructure consisting of a mixture of MPLS, Point to Point, 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) Solarwinds and protocol analyzers.
Prior experience using industry established project management techniques in accomplishing strategic objectives.
Experienced 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 Cisco 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 within a team environment to ensure performance, reliability, and security in a dynamic 24-7-365 production network environment.
Some travel may be required.
Customer focused attitude.
Excellent communications skills both written and verbal.

Nice To Haves

CCNP is preferred
Cloud experience a plus
Experience with Cisco DNA, ACI, SDN

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 security 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.
Develop strategies and plan for infrastructure growth based on business demands.
Develop standards to help reduce error and reducing mean time to resolution for outages.
Plan and design tangible solutions that will improve performance of services within 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 perform 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 point for help desk related issues.
Develop, maintain, and ensure the accuracy and completeness of network related 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.
Perform other duties as assigned.