Engineer

Clinical Health Network For Transformation (CHN); United States; On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Coverage

Retirement Plan with employer match

Paid Time Off Program

Job summary

Clinical Health Network For Transformation (CHN) is seeking a Network Engineer to support the mission of Planned Parenthood by ensuring high-quality network infrastructure. This role focuses on maintaining optimal networks and involves the use of AI-enabled tools to enhance operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and a strong ability to communicate effectively across diverse teams. The position offers a salary range of $83,000 - $124,000 a year and a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to work well and build trust with diverse teams.
• Strong understanding of cloud, virtual, and physical network infrastructure.
• Ability to implement, administer, and troubleshoot network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Plans, directs, maintains, and coordinates network installation and operations.
• Develops and adheres to network security and compliance standards.
• Uses AI tools for infrastructure troubleshooting and service improvement.

Skills

Network security

AI-enabled tools

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

Incident management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

Firewalls

Virtual network devices

Wireless access points

Job description

The vision of Clinical Health Network for Transformation (CHN) is to support the mission and promise of Planned Parenthood to bring high-quality, affordable care to every member of our communities. CHN is a collaboration between Planned Parenthood affiliates across the United States.

CHN is looking for individuals who are committed to supporting our shared goal of strengthening and enhancing our awareness and commitment to advancing the cause of health equity in our organization.

Reporting directly to the Engineering Director, this position will participate in technical workgroups and function as a technical expert. The individual in this role will assist in resolving complex and high-risk issues. This role supports the research, analysis, design, creation, and implementation of infrastructure systems to meet current and future user requirements. This role includes working with service, integrator, and cloud service providers to modify and maintain existing systems to address changes in business processes. The network engineer will carry out tasks to ensure service providers and integrators achieve contracted service delivery outcomes. They will also be responsible for maintaining efficient and optimal networks, including local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), the internet, intranets, and other data communications systems.

The Engineer is expected to use approved Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled tools and automation practices to support modern IT operations. This includes using AI responsibly to assist with troubleshooting, incident analysis, log review, documentation, root cause analysis, knowledge base development, service improvement, and operational decision support while following CHN security, privacy, compliance, and data-handling requirements.

Essential Functions

• Plans, directs, maintains, and coordinates network installation, maintenance, and operations.
• Work and build trust across cultural differences.
• Develops and adheres to network security and compliance efforts.
• Acts as an escalation point to which technical issues can be escalated to troubleshoot and solve problems occurring within the group and the service.
• Develops, posts, and reports on the health of the service (KPIs) and focuses on continuous improvement for the service area.
• Works with other affiliates and external customers to provide network services and support.
• Creates and maintains the network service standards and maintenance protocols.
• Ensures projects and activities are delivered on schedule and adhere to established standards.
• Participates in establishing rates and budget; identifies cost savings and reduces expenditures.
• Works with vendors and staff to develop procurement activities in support of technical initiatives and ensures vendors meet contractual requirements.
• Assists with the development of RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices.
• Participating in professional societies.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Uses approved AI-enabled tools to assist with infrastructure troubleshooting, incident triage, alert analysis, log review, root cause analysis, documentation, and service improvement.
• Applies AI-assisted analysis to help accelerate problem identification and resolution while validating findings against source systems, monitoring tools, logs, vendor documentation, and CHN standards.
• Identifies opportunities to use AI, automation, APIs, scripting, and workflow tools to improve operational efficiency, service delivery, documentation, reporting, and recurring support processes.
• Supports responsible AI usage by following CHN security, privacy, compliance, confidentiality, and data-handling requirements.
• Partners with Information Security, Service Desk, vendors, and other IT teams to evaluate and safely use AI-assisted workflows in infrastructure operations and support.
• Maintains awareness of emerging AI, automation, cloud, infrastructure, and observability capabilities that may improve system reliability, support quality, and operational effectiveness.
• Uses AI-assisted tools to help create or improve technical documentation, runbooks, service health summaries, incident summaries, and knowledge base articles.
• Upholds organizational values and standards, while proactively seeking ways to improve efficiency, equity, and service excellence.
• Ensures compliance with all CHN and affiliate policies, as well as all state and federal regulations.
• Provides positive and developmental feedback and accountability related to all practices.
• Demonstrates commitment to CHN and Planned Parenthood’s health equity mission, with emphasis on racial equity and community accountability. Demonstrates dedication to learning about racial equity and addressing structural racism in healthcare.
• Consistently delivers high-quality results using sound judgment and data-driven decisions. Prioritizes customer needs by providing prompt, accurate service to all stakeholders.

The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, and this job description can be amended at any time.

Qualifications (Required)

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, related field or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work well and build trust with diverse teams, including across racial difference.
• Demonstrated ability to flex communication style to multiple cultural environments.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with multiple vendors to achieve integrated solutions.
• Ability to work days, evenings, and weekends as required for 24x7 support.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience in a multi-state/multi-affiliate environment.
• Ability to respond to urgent situations during nonstandard hours with short or no notice.
• Ability to work in a team environment and maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to manage incident, task, and changes in ITSM.
• Strong understanding of cloud, virtual, and physical network infrastructure and network hardware.
• Ability to implement, administer, and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical network infrastructure; devices, including virtual network devices, wireless access points, firewalls, routers, switches, and controllers.
• Ability to create accurate network diagrams and documentation for design and planning network communications.
• Ability to provide specific detailed information for hardware and software selection.
• Demonstrated network security experience in traditional, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing and troubleshooting virtual private networks (VPNs).
• Previous experience creating, modifying, and testing message structures, events, and connections.
• Knowledge of application transport and network infrastructure protocols.
• Prior experience providing maintenance and support.
• Demonstrated dedication to Planned Parenthood’s mission, vision, and values.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders, including staff, board members, and external partners.
• Excellent leadership, time management, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and with professional discretion.
• Willingness to travel in accordance with the needs of the position, as outlined in the essential functions. Compliance with all CHN travel policies, including safety guidelines while operating a personal vehicle.
• Demonstrated ability to use approved AI-enabled tools to support troubleshooting, incident analysis, log review, root cause analysis, technical documentation, and operational decision support.
• Understanding of responsible AI use in an enterprise environment, including the need to protect confidential, sensitive, regulated, security-related, and organizational information.
• Ability to validate AI-generated recommendations against authoritative sources, including monitoring tools, system logs, device configurations, vendor documentation, ITSM records, and CHN standards.
• Foundational understanding of how AI, automation, APIs, scripting, and workflow tools can support modern IT operations, infrastructure management, incident response, reporting, and service improvement.
• Ability to identify practical AI-assisted use cases, including incident triage, outage analysis, configuration review, documentation improvement, knowledge base creation, recurring issue analysis, and post-incident summaries.
• Familiarity with writing effective prompts for technical troubleshooting, including providing appropriate context, asking structured questions, reviewing outputs for accuracy, and avoiding the use of restricted or sensitive data in unapproved tools.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Certifications: CCNP, CCIE R&S, and CCA-N.

Key Requirements

• Commitment to advancing race and equity in one’s work: interested in expanding knowledge about the role that racial inequity plays in our society.
• Awareness of multiple group identities and their dynamics, bringing a high level of self‑awareness about personal identity, empathy, and humility to interpersonal interactions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and directly as well as hear and act on feedback related to identity and equity with the aim to learn.
• Strong sense of accountability to equitable practices.
• Understanding of the impact of identity dynamics on organizational culture.
• Commitment to CHN and Planned Parenthood’s In This Together service ethos, workplace values, and service standards.

$83,000 - $124,000 a year

CHN believes in fair and equitable pay. Above is the pay range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, and business need. Placement higher in the range is typically reserved for candidates with extensive, directly related experience and a demonstrated record of exceptional expertise.

CHN provides employees with a competitive benefits package; some highlights include the following:

• Health Care Coverage (Medical, Dental, & Vision); eligibility for full-time, regular employees on date of hire.
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account.
• Short-Term Disability and Basic Life & AD&D Insurance provided by CHN.
• Voluntary elections for Long Term Disability and Additional Life & AD&D Insurance available at cost.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Retirement Plan, 3% employer match after one year of service.
• Paid Time Off Program includes accrual-based PTO, Health Time Off (HTO), and nine (9) paid Holidays.

Clinical Health Network for Transformation (CHN) is an equal employment opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender and gender expression/identity, age, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, uniformed service member/veteran status, marital status, medical condition, pregnancy, sexual orientation, citizenship status, genetic information, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace that values racial & social justice. We strongly encourage all persons to apply, including members from all racial and ethnic groups and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.