Overview

• Onsite Janesville, WI if you do not live in the area must be willing to relocate

 

The Network Engineer's role is to develop and maintain the high-level design plan for the overall logical and technical network architecture. This individual will provide technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from strategic decision making down to the project planning level. The Network Engineer will gain organizational commitment for all high-level network infrastructure plans and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans. Performs other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and implement short- and long-term strategic plans to make certain network capacity meets existing and future requirements. 

• Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and associated training plans for network resource administration and appropriate use. 

• Develop and deploy methodologies for testing network performance and providing network performance statistics and reports. 

• Provide network technology expertise, direction, and assistance to other Network Team members and other department teams. 

• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of network development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and network flexibility. 

• Work with senior network members to develop, document, make recommendations, and communicate plans for investing in network technologies, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities. 

• Ensure network services have sufficient capacity, stability, and agility to satisfy service level agreements with business units. 

• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to network configuration, network mapping, processes, and service records. 

• Plan, acquire, and coordinate installation of in-house and remote network devices and appliances across the organization's network. 

• Work with senior network members to design company LANs, WANs, virtual networks, network security, and wireless networks, including firewalls, servers, routers, switches, and other devices. 

• Work with senior network members to manage and set priorities for the design, maintenance, development, and evaluation of all network infrastructures, including LANs, WANs, Internet, intranet, security, wireless implementations. 

• Identify System Requirements, Communicate with Project Stakeholders, Communicate Project Risks and Conflicts, Maintain Project Schedules, and Prepare Progress Reports. 

Education and Experience  

Associates degree preferred and two years of Network Administrator equivalent experience required 

 

Certification and Licensure  

Cisco or HPE Aruba Network associate-level (equivalent or higher) certification preferred. 

 

Special Physical Demands  

The Special Physical Demands are considered Essential Job Functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.  

Culture of Excellence Behavior Expectations

Benefits

Mercyhealth offers a generous total rewards package to eligible employees including, but not limited to: 

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Mercyhealth offers a retirement plan with competitive matching contribution, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options, life and disability coverage, access to flexible spending plans, and a variety of other discounted voluntary benefit options.
• Competitive Compensation: Mercyhealth offers market competitive rates of pay and participates in various shift differential and special pay incentive programs.
• Paid Time Off: Mercyhealth offers a generous paid time off plan, which increases with milestone anniversaries, to allow employees the opportunity for a great work-life balance.
• Career Advancement: Mercyhealth offers a number of educational assistance programs and career ladders to support employees in their educational journey and advancement within Mercyhealth.
• Employee Wellbeing: Mercyhealth has a focus on wellbeing for employees across the organization and offers a number of tools and resources, such as an employer-sponsored health risk assessment and a Wellbeing mobile application, to assist employees on their wellbeing journey.
• Additional Benefits: Mercyhealth employees have access to our internal and external employee assistance programs, employee-only discount packages, paid parental and caregiver leaves, on-demand pay, special payment programs for patient services, and financial education to help with retirement planning.