Principal Network Engineer IS

Providence Health & Services is a comprehensive health care organization dedicated to patient-focused care. They are seeking a Principal Network Engineer to design, operate, and elevate mission-critical services, ensuring high-performing network architectures and leading innovation in service delivery systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design, operate, and elevate large-scale, mission-critical services
• Translate business, technical, and caregiver needs into resilient, compliant, high-performing service architectures
• Craft and champion standards, engineer service delivery systems end-to-end, and lead the charge in diagnosing and permanently solving disruptions
• Drive innovation through telemetry, automation, lifecycle planning, and cost modeling
• Steer disaster recovery drills and ensure 24x7 uptime
• Mentor teammates and advance IS best practices

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree - Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering -OR- a combination of equivalent education and work experience
• 8 or more years of related experience
• Strong experience in automation, specifically related to deployment, recovery, or other manual processes
• Scripting experience with one of PowerShell, Perl, Ansible, VB Script, Python, SQL
• Strong experience with n-tier solutions
• Strong experience with resilience modeling (failure mode analysis) and ability to simulate service outages for point solutions (automated) and platforms (manually)
• Strong experience influencing engineering team members in translating customer and technical requirements into service architecture to meet Quality of Service Expectations
• Strong experience leading and representing the Service in backlog discussions and standups to establish appropriate prioritization of Live Site requirements
• Strong experience leveraging data and metrics to drive behavior, process, and priority decisions
• Strong experience using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
• Strong experience in advanced problem solving using systematic procedures and investigating problems utilizing root cause analysis
• Master's Degree - Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering -OR- a combination of equivalent education and work experience
• Experience in a Healthcare environment
• 8 or more years of experience with Cisco collaboration technologies and network technologies
• CCIE-Collaboration / Voice certification with DevOps and Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) knowledge
• Oracle SBC design and administration expertise
• Experience with Cisco ISR as a Voice Gateway
• Cisco CUBE proficiency
• Level 3 CUCM Administration experience
• Bulk Administration experience
• Strong knowledge of Cisco FLEX licensing models
• Experience with automation and network device programming
• Python scripting skills
• Advanced proficiency in Excel
• SIP Trunking experience (ISP, Legacy PBX, Avaya, Third-Party)
• PSTN connectivity knowledge
• Quality of Service expertise
• Digit manipulation and dial plan administration
• Advanced network and VoIP troubleshooting abilities
• Experience developing standards
• High-level design experience
• Low-level design and diagramming skills
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities