Network Engineer II

Northeast Georgia Health System•Gainesville, GA

About The Position

Mid-level position responsible for support, implementation, repair, and maintenance of Network wired, wireless, and security infrastructure/applications, including: routing, switching, IPS/IDS, firewalls, B2B VPN, remote access VPN, network access control, application delivery, WAF, RF management, BLE, RTLS location services, advanced data center overlay technologies, cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure), WAN/SDWAN technologies (including satellite, cellular, and broadband), UPS technologies, and DDI. This position must be able to demonstrate each of the job specific skills and abilities listed.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field required.
In lieu of a Bachelors Degree, 6 to 8 years of experience in a similar role in another organization will be considered.
Four (4) years experience supporting critical IT network infrastructure in a highly available 24x7 environment.
Ability to articulate technical expertise to peers and leadership team
Ability to lead collaborations with teams to build the best possible solution for customers
Moderate understanding of networking concepts and ability to walk through communication flows in extensive detail
Passion in identifying innovative approaches to using new or existing technologies to meet current and future business needs
Experience mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior engineers and peers
Understanding of WAN technologies including SDWAN, satellite, cellular, and broadband connectivity
Knowledge and experience with network financials and billing
Ability to work with end users and IT staff to define network requirements for IT systems user experience
Moderate experience troubleshooting Networking infrastructure and components, IT systems, and cloud environments
Eagerness and willingness to pursue continual education to foster personal growth
Moderate experience in helping people communicate through enterprise scale network and network security environments with a focus on Juniper/Mist, SDWAN, and hybrid multi-cloud environment routing and switching, as well as Palo Alto, Forescout, and F5 security tools
Moderate experience with routing and switching (BGP, OSPF), network access control, L2/3 overlays (EVPN, VXLAN, ACI, OTV), hybrid multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP), B2B and remote access VPNs, RF environments, RTLS technologies (BLE, UWB), and disaster recovery environments

Nice To Haves

Juniper JNCIS, Cisco CCNA, or similar certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Participates in on-call rotation
Perform complex problem isolation within the network
Creates technical documentation for infrastructure solutions
Assist with defining technical network engineering policies and procedures
Ensure the security of the system by driving standards and policies across all applicable technology towers
Monitor Network Services infrastructure capacity and performance to ensure continued, uninterrupted operation of its systems and applications
Lead/coordinate new network infrastructure and applications deployment
Coordinate and collaborate with vendors on repair and maintenance of various network systems and their components
Assist Management with Network Services financial planning, budgeting, and billing
All other duties as assigned by the Unified Communications Manager and/or the IT Network & Telecommunications Supervisor