Network Manager

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

We need someone with IT management experience in a health or hospital environment.

We need someone local to Chicago IL.

The Network Manager provides guidance, oversight and serves as a technical expert in implementing best practices for Hospital Information Systems Network Engineering. Enables team members to implement and maintain network hardware and software, analyze problems, and monitor networks to ensure service availability to system users. The Manager is responsible for the design and support of all computer network services, including local-area networks (LAN), wide-area networks (WAN), network segments, Voice-Over-IP (VOIP) services, VPN tunnels, and Internet and Intranet systems. The Manager is responsible for gathering data to identify customer needs and applying that data in identifying, interpreting, and evaluating system and network requirements as well as coordinating and implementing network security measures.

Typical Duties

• Provides guidance, oversight, training, standards, and best practices to empower the Network Services team.


• Supervises IT staff, including evaluating performance and setting performance goals. Works with the Network Information Officer to align IT roles and positions with the needs of the organization.


• Fosters built-in quality within the Network Engineering team.


• Mentors IT staff by providing opportunities for professional growth via education in IT concepts, guidance, and hands‑on training.


• Maintains current diagrams of the network infrastructure; ensures network infrastructure has optimal performance in accordance with client standards.


• Leads in planning and design of solutions and explores solution alternatives; represents the Network Engineering practice perspective in architecture decisions.


• Works with customers, stakeholders, suppliers, and other team members to establish high level network requirements, design, intent, and deliverables; helps establish the solution models and documents network requirements.


• Establishes critical network‑related Nonfunctional Requirements such as reliability, security, recoverability, and scalability at the solution level; participates in the definition of others.


• Analyzes and validates the economic impact of network design decisions and provides recommendations on budget and cost reduction efforts.


• Works with stakeholders to develop, analyze, on implementation of enabling network platforms.


• Works with Security and Network Information Officer to plan and develop the network strategic plans in support of upcoming business requirements, equipment upgrades and new technologies.


• Serves as the product owner for all computer network services, including local-area networks (LAN), wide- area networks (WAN), network segments, Voice-Over‑IP (VOIP) services, VPN tunnels, and Internet and Internet/Intranet systems.


• Maintains and forecasts budgets to include capital and operating expenses.


• Contributes to the support and the success of the organization by providing technical expertise and the ability to determine, deliver and maintain appropriately functional and scalable technologies and platforms necessary to support the organization’s growth and development.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher field from an accredited college or university


• Seven (7) years network (LAN/WAN/VOIP) experience


• Five (5) years of IT management experience in a health or hospital environment


• Three (3) years of experience 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 and applied knowledge of 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Business from an accredited college or university


• Ten (10) years network (LAN/WAN/VOIP) experience


• Seven (7) years of IT management experience in a health or hospital environment


• Five (5) years of experience supervising and/or managing unified communications staff