Lead Network Engineer – Enterprise Infrastructure-28764

Location: Chicago, Illinois / Remote

Business Unit: Rush Medical Center

Hospital: Rush University Medical Center

Department: IT Infrastructure

Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0)

Shift: Shift 1

Work Schedule: 8 Hr (8:00:00 AM - 5:00:00 PM)

Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits).

Pay Range: $50.68 - $75.51 per hour

Rush salaries are determined by many factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related experience and skills, as well as internal equity and industry specific market data. The pay range for each role reflects Rush’s anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. Offers may vary depending on the circumstances of each case.

Summary

Join Rush University Medical Center as a Lead Network Engineer and play a critical role in supporting and advancing the network infrastructure that powers one of the nation’s leading academic health systems. In this highly visible leadership position, you will serve as the technical lead and primary escalation point for Network Services, helping ensure the reliability, security, and performance of a complex 24x7x365 healthcare environment.

As a subject matter expert in enterprise networking, you will lead the design, implementation, optimization, and support of mission-critical technologies across LAN, WAN, wireless, datacenter, cloud, and security platforms. You’ll collaborate with technical and business leaders across the organization to drive strategic initiatives, improve operational processes, enhance network performance, and deliver innovative solutions that support patient care, research, education, and administrative operations.

This role offers the opportunity to lead major infrastructure projects, mentor fellow engineers, influence technology standards, and help shape the future direction of Rush’s network services portfolio. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep Cisco networking expertise, strong problem-solving abilities, and a passion for building secure, scalable, and highly available network solutions.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to combine technical leadership, enterprise-scale networking, and meaningful work that directly supports patient care and organizational success, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

• Lead network team projects both internal and external supporting and enhancing the business.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to fellow engineers.
• Serve as an escalation for issues arising from projects and operational tasks.
• Maintain and enhance the existing processes and workflows.
• Assist and help organize engineering workloads within the team to ensure timely project delivery.
• Monitor the network to ensure security of data and access privileges.
• Analyze and resolve network hardware and software problems in a timely and accurate fashion and provide end-user assistance and training where required.
• Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards in support of network procurement and development efforts.
• Develop strategies and plan for infrastructure growth based on business demands.
• Develop standards to help reduce error and reducing mean time to resolution for outages.
• Plan and design tangible solutions that will improve performance of services within the Network Services portfolio.
• Plan network hardware upgrades, maintenance fixes, and vendor-supplied patches.
• Define metrics, monitor, and test and troubleshoot network performance and provide network performance statistics and reports.
• Plan, deploy, maintain, and support the hospitals local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), Datacenters, Cloud infrastructure, including routers, firewalls, switches, VPN appliances, wiring and other hardware as assigned.
• Recommend, schedule, and perform network improvements, upgrades, and repairs.
• Collaborate with IT management and staff, departments, and other agencies in the development, deployment, and support of new network-based programs and applications.
• Provide guidance and technical support to peers and serve as an escalation point for help desk related issues.
• Develop, maintain, and ensure the accuracy and completeness of network related technical documentation as needed. Help drive a consistent set of standards for equipment, configuration, and operational procedures.
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