Network Engineer

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Exemption Status : Exempt

Hiring Range :

$64084.80 - $115336.00

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidates experience skills qualifications and internal equity considerations .

Schedule Details : Scheduled Hours :

Shift :

1 - Day Shift 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours : 40

Cost Center :

99940 - 5981 Network & Telephony

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health everyone is a caregiver regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20000 employees working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients community and each other. And everyone in their own unique way plays an important part every day.

This position is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Cisco network Checkpoint firewalls F5 Big IP load balancers and Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE). Activities include updating and monitoring firewalls installation and maintenance of switches security and vulnerability management of the network equipment and response to both service and cyber security incidents. Interfaces with network engineers security team and other infrastructure disciplines daily.

I. Major Responsibilities :

1. Performs platform-specific technical tasks including upgrades installation and configuration and installation of patches and fixes to minimize risk and service disruptions.

2. Performs day to day engineering and operations tasks on Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and Access Control System (ACS) to include installation upgrades configuration and troubleshooting.

3. Helps in the prevention and remediation of cyber security attacks.

4. Resolves availability capacity and performance issues.

5. Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency.

6. Participate in risk assessments of various requests.

7. Works with engineers to ensure security compliance. Scripts and automates various tasks related to network and security support.

8. Performs problem analysis and documentation root-cause analysis and create incident reports.

9. Performs detailed troubleshooting for complex operational issues.

10. Work with the team to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements.

11. Performs tasks relating to business continuity products including patching health checks audit review and repair configuration modifications.

12. Ensure service performance meets or exceeds business expectations and is delivered in accordance with SLAs.

13. Performs hands-on work to install configure maintain and troubleshoot the network hardware software and other components required for connectivity.

14. Perform hands-on work to maintain products services protocols and standards that meet network industry standards.

15. Perform new and existing equipment hardware and software upgrades. Execute the design concepts implementation plans device setup and configuration settings and maintenance plans. Performs troubleshooting.

16. Stays up to date on network specific skills and practices.

17. Supports users by a variety of methods providing technical expertise to users and / or written means.

II. Position Qualifications :

License / Certification / Education :

Required :

1. Bachelors degree in computer science engineering information technology or related field.

Preferred :

1. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

2. Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)

3. F5 Certified Administrator (F5-CA)

Experience / Skills :

Required :

1. Minimum five (5) years of related network engineering and security experience.

2. Must have experience with HSRP 802.1Q Spanning Tree IP subnetting IP routing including OSPF BGP EIGRP.

3. Design and deploy datacenter network storage and compute.

4. Experience in logical design models (L2 / L3 vPC vPC VDC FEX datacenter zones OTV fabric path spanning tree port channels VTP VLANs physical cabling).

5. Experience designing and troubleshooting of GLBP HSRP and VRRP.

6. Experience designing and troubleshooting of AAA ACLs DHCP snooping dynamic ARP inspection IP source guard port security TrustSec

7. Working technical knowledge of network control protocols (QOS PoE NTP DHCP) network management protocols (CDP FTP TFTP SNMP) and security protocols (SSH HTTPS IPSec).

8. Strong knowledge IP communication and routing (OSPF EIGRP BGP).

9. Understanding of WAN / LAN and transport technologies (Ethernet and MPLS).

10. Excellent hands-on technical knowledge of network equipment including routers and switches.

11. Technical knowledge of current network hardware protocols and internet standards and the ability to conduct research into networking issues and products with proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.

12. Ability to prioritize tasks and communicate in a high-pressure environment with strong customer service orientation and experience working in a team-oriented collaborative environment.

13. Experience with Cisco switches routers and wireless controllers.

Preferred :

with F5 Big IP load balancers.

with Cisco Stealth Watch.

with Checkpoint firewalls.

with Cisco ASA firewalls.

with Cisco Identity Service Engine.

6. This position is required to participate in a 24 x 7 on-call rotation.

Unless certification licensure or registration is required an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Department-specific competencies including age-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions :

Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a normal office environment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status.

Were striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health for our patients our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are : Acknowledge Listen Communicate Be Responsive Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation national origin age disability gender identity and expression protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

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Key Skills

Load Balancing,Routing Protocols,Network Administration,Network Engineering,BGP,LAN,Computer Networking,IPsec,OSPF,Cisco ASA,Juniper,MPLS

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 64084 - 115336