Chicago Healthcare Network & IT Operations Lead

Solution Partners, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Solution Partners, Inc. in Chicago, IL is seeking an IT Network Manager with health-care environment experience to lead network engineering, design, and security.

The role provides guidance to the Network Services team and ensures service availability for hospital users. The ideal candidate holds a bachelor's degree, 7+ years LAN/WAN/VOIP experience, and 5+ years IT management in healthcare, with strong VOIP and unified communications knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher field from an accredited college or university.
• Seven (7) years network (LAN/WAN/VOIP) experience.
• Five (5) years IT management experience in a health or hospital environment.
• Three (3) years supervising and/or managing unified communications staff.
• Experience building and managing Network Operations function related to monitoring, and responding to alerts, availability and performance of the enterprise network system.
• Experience in network architecture, design, and delivery as it relates to Information Network Security and the overall design and architecture of the Network and Security Infrastructure.
• Experience and applied knowledge of VOIP and Unified Communications and how to enable network services to support this technology across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Provides guidance, oversight, training, standards, and best practices to empower the Network Services team.
• Supervises IT staff, including evaluating performance and setting performance goals.
• Maintains current diagrams of the network infrastructure and ensures optimal performance.
• Leads in planning and design of solutions and documents network requirements.
• Establishes network-related nonfunctional requirements (reliability, security, recoverability, scalability).
• Analyses economic impact of network design decisions and recommends cost reductions.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to implement enabling network platforms and security plans.

Skills

IT management

Healthcare experience

LAN/WAN/VOIP

Network security

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

VOIP systems

VPN

LAN/WAN infra

Network monitoring

Job description

Solution Partners, Inc. in Chicago, IL is seeking an IT Network Manager with health-care environment experience to lead network engineering, design, and security.

The role provides guidance to the Network Services team and ensures service availability for hospital users. The ideal candidate holds a bachelor's degree, 7+ years LAN/WAN/VOIP experience, and 5+ years IT management in healthcare, with strong VOIP and unified communications knowledge.