Sr Network Engineer

Job Description

IT is different here. Our work as technology specialists pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in health care. You will build solutions that make a real difference in people’s lives. Driven by the importance of their work, our team members innovate to elevate. We’re encouraged to be curious, collaborate, and turn ideas into solutions that transform health care.

You’ll be a trusted member of a high energy, tight-knit, creative team. As one of our valued members of the team you will be responsible for the engineering of various and complex aspects of both physical and cloud hosted data center infrastructures. We are looking for a highly motivated and engaged engineer to operate in a dynamic environment. Using your experience, you will develop and maintain technical standards, procedures and documentation in partnership with service partners as needed. We will look for you to use your interpersonal skills to partner and consult with varied technical, business project and management staff.

If you are ready to make a career out of making a difference, then you are the person for this team.

• Independently design, configure, and troubleshoot WAN, data center and campus networks in a high performance SDN environment while demonstrating mastery of network fundamentals
• Execute the detailed infrastructure design of complex internal projects, collaborating with IT stakeholders, service owners and partners
• As infrastructure SME, provide expertise and knowledge in emerging technologies with strategic technology vendors 
• Collaborate with the architecture team and technology vendors on network design and technology adoption
• Provide operational readiness through the engineering, planning, coordination, and execution of performance and tuning analysis, systems support, incident and problem resolution, software installation, and upgrades
• Maintain appropriate standardized guidelines, work procedures and schedules for solution engineering within the data center environment to expedite workflow and ultimately improve efficiencies.
• Participate in software and hardware licensing, financial and capacity activities that plan for the most efficient way to introduce and maintain datacenter technology within the environment.
• Proactively provide information and ongoing consultation for IT and business areas as well as vendors directly or indirectly affected by the network or data center infrastructures
• Provide detailed guidance and consultation in resolving production incidents when required.
• Provide new technology overviews to IT and Enterprise leadership at varied leadership forums.
• Provide direction and assistance to less experienced team members as needed.
• Define hardware and software performance standards.
• Participate in disaster recovery design, planning, and testing

Hiring Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of systems engineering experience is required.
• In lieu of degree, 7 years of systems engineering experience.
• Direct experience with the following technologies and designs:
  • Layer 3 Leaf-Spine
  • WAN routing in a multi-VRF environment
  • Virtual network functions (VNF)
  • Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF
  • EVPN with VXLAN data plane
  • Zone-based firewalling
  • MLAG/VPC
  • Network visibility platforms
  • Extrahop, Infoblox or equivalent DDI experience
• Additional skills: Wi-Fi, public cloud
• Experience automating tasks associated with technical specialties.
• Experience leading data center projects and initiatives.

Salary Range

At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets,  licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs. 

*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.
 

$100,500.00 - $182,700.00