Sr Network Engineer

Air Methods•Greenwood Village, CO

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Leads in the operation and management of network routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers and related components to be responsible for high levels of availability and security of the supported business applications with a specific focus on Cisco Phone systems implementation and support. As well as to a smaller degree; leads in the evaluation, design, implementation, upgrade and support Air Methods application infrastructure. Adheres to Air Methods policies and procedures as required to maintain regulatory and operational compliance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (BS) from four-year college or university in Computer Science or related field and five to eight years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Extensive Microsoft server experience required including Windows, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, OCS
Deep VMWare production experience required
Large scale Citrix XenApp farm experience required
Self-motivated individual who meets deadlines and strives to exceed expectations;
Working knowledge of regulations related to HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) relative to information security and assurance;
Curiosity and desire to learn, with the ability to create and maintain positive professional relationships to accomplish assigned tasks;
Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to manage several projects concurrently
Assess situations and supports decisions by researching, validating and organizing a variety of defined and undefined observations or issues in a fact-based detailed-oriented manner
Ability to independently diagnose complex situation into manageable parts
Participates as a specialized knowledge resource in established processes
Advanced with Microsoft Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Microsoft server background required including Windows, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, OCS
Windows System Administration (Windows 2008/2012),
VMWare (All latest versions)
Cisco UCS
Windows Desktop build & administration
IP protocol and stack
DHCP & DNS
Active Directory administration including GPO’ s

Nice To Haves

Graduate Study/Master’s Degree preferred
EMC CLARiiON CX4/CX3 SAN management experience preferred
Data Domain, Avamar, recover point, dedup technologies experience preferred
MCSE certification preferred (or MCSA and/or MTA leading to MCSE)
VCAP/VCP certification preferred
CCEA or CCAA certification preferred
EMCSA certification preferred

Responsibilities

Provide support and troubleshooting of routing and switching enterprise technologies in complex networking environments. Troubleshooting includes WAN routing (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, FHRP, multi-layer overlay networking, etc.), LAN switching (VLANs, layer 3 switching, EoMPLS, trunking, port-channeling), VoIP (WAN usage, QoS, PSTN, H.323, SIP)
Leads in the administration of security technologies such as firewalling, multi-layer VPN technologies, IPS, ACLs, and best practices adhering to regulations (HIPAA, SOX, PCI, CALEA etc.)
Leads the development, implementation and maintenance of policies, procedures and associated training plans for network resource administration, appropriate use, security controls and disaster recovery.
Manages and performs network systems software upgrades, including planning and scheduling, testing and coordination.
Manages and enforces the implementation of systems security, backup and recovery procedures.
Conducts feasibility studies, assesses impacts on existing system configurations, and performs and cost/benefit analyses to support the selection and purchase of network hardware and software.
Takes a lead role in the conception of innovative and practical network solutions leveraging extensive experience, training, creativity and best practices.
Maintains and supports systems in a 24x7, large, distributed and mission-critical environment including in-house and commercial data center(s) and for helicopter EMS bases around the U.S.
Leads projects to deploy new technologies or upgrade existing infrastructure.
Leads in the establishment and maintenance of policies, procedures and associated training plans for network resource administration, appropriate use, security controls and disaster recovery.
Assumes key role in enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity program including implementations, testing and event response.
Provides administration and escalated technical support for existing technologies, working with outside support services as required.
Documents systems meticulously and follows change management processes;
Researches, develops and implements best practices and standards relative to servers and other systems as assigned.
Interfaces with vendors and consultants to coordinate the delivery of products and services.
Other Duties as assigned.