Sr. Network Engineer

Client: OSU - The Wexner Medical Center

Job Title: Network Engineers

Location: onsite in Columbus OH

Duration: 6+ months

Partner Rate: 120/hr. all inclusive

My notes

This is working in the brand new, state-of-the-art facilities. These engineers will be working in a hospital of the future.

Consultation Skills

Strategic Mindset and Leadership

Architectural Design and Planning

Project Leadership

Mentorship and Collaboration

Business Acumen

Job Description:

Responsible for the engineering, building, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of network and related monitoring systems to ensure stability, reliability, and acceptable performance. This includes the design and support of routing protocols such as BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol), and OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) to ensure efficient and resilient network communication across the Medical Center's infrastructure.

Provides functional and empirical analysis related to the planning, design, installation, and implementation of the network infrastructure, including advanced technologies such as MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) for traffic engineering and service delivery, and EVPN (Ethernet VPN) and VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN) for scalable and flexible data center and campus network segmentation.

Plans and develop the detailed engineering, design, and implementation of the Medical Center's network environment, incorporating modern overlay and underlay architectures to support high availability and performance. Plans and performs upgrades of network systems hardware and support systems in accordance with ITIL best practices.

Responsible for network systems projects that range from medium to large in scope, risk, and impact. Leads and facilitate strategic projects involved in evaluating and researching new and existing products, procedures, and/or workflow needs associated with network systems for the Medical Center.

Research current and developing technologies-including dynamic routing protocols, MPLS-based services, and data center virtualization solutions-to provide technical guidance pertaining to the capabilities, limitations, and requirements of network systems.

Would need experience working in large enterprises (preferably healthcare/hospital) environments.