Engineer: Network

Mediclinic International; Stellenbosch; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Mediclinic Southern Africa Corporate Office in Stellenbosch seeks an experienced network architect to design, implement and secure its enterprise network, ensuring availability for clinical, corporate and medical-device connectivity.

The role focuses on Zero Trust, hybrid-cloud connectivity, cybersecurity improvements and collaboration with clinical and IT teams to deliver resilient networking services.

Qualifications

• Matric or equivalent.
• Professional networking certification (CCNP, HCIP) or equivalent.
• Degree in IT/CS/Engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and optimise enterprise network services.
• Manage network security, ZTNA and cyber resilience.
• Support healthcare technology and secure medical-device connectivity.
• Drive operational excellence, automation and continuous improvement.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and service delivery.

Skills

Routing & switching

Network security

Zero Trust

Remote access

Network segmentation

Cloud connectivity

Network automation

Education

Matric

Networking certs

IT/CS/Engineering degree

Job description

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Mediclinic Southern Africa Corporate Office| Stellenbosch | South Africa

Closing date: 20/10/2026
Number of positions: 1
Recruiter name: Fiona Simone Anderson
Reference number: 74374
Workplace Type:Hybrid
Permanent

Please note if you are an internal employee on a fixed term contract please apply using an external candidate profile and not your employee profile

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

To design, implement, secure, optimise and support Mediclinic’s enterprise network infrastructure, ensuring the availability, performance, resilience and security of clinical, corporate and medical-device connectivity services. The role supports strategic initiatives including Huawei network modernisation, Electronic Health Record readiness and deployment, Zero Trust Network Access, secure medical-device integration, cybersecurity improvement programmes and hybrid-cloud connectivity.

KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS

• Design, implement and optimise enterprise network services
• Manage network security, Zero Trust Network Access and cyber resilience
• Support healthcare technology, EHR and secure medical-device connectivity
• Drive operational excellence, automation and continuous improvement
• Manage stakeholder relationships and service delivery

REQUIRED EDUCATION

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION:

• Matric.
• A recognised enterprise networking certification at professional level, such as Cisco CCNP, Huawei HCIP or an equivalent professional networking qualification

DESIRED EDUCATION:

• A relevant diploma or degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Relevant vendor or security certification.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL MINIMUM:

• A minimum of five years’ experience in an enterprise network environment.
• Practical experience supporting large-scale LAN, WAN, WLAN and data-centre network services.
• Experience with enterprise routing, switching, network security, firewall technologies, operational support and formal change-control processes.
• Experience supporting high-availability and business-critical technology environments.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with Huawei enterprise campus networking technologies and multi-vendor network environments.
• Experience with Zero Trust Network Access, network segmentation and secure remote-access solutions.
• Exposure to cloud and hybrid network connectivity.
• Experience supporting healthcare technology, clinical systems, EHR platforms or secure medical-device connectivity.
• Exposure to network automation, orchestration, telemetry and analytics

REQUIRED JOB SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Enterprise routing and switching technologies
• Network security principles
• Firewall technologies and policy management
• Zero Trust Network Access principles and operations
• Network segmentation and micro-segmentation
• Secure remote-access technologies
• Wireless enterprise networking
• WAN, SD-WAN and IPsec technologies
• Cloud and hybrid network connectivity
• Network monitoring, telemetry and analytics platforms
• High-availability and resilient network design
• Capacity planning and performance management
• EHR and clinical application network requirements
• Secure medical-device connectivity
• IEC 80001 awareness in relation to connected medical-device risk
• Network automation, orchestration and scripting
• Data-cabling standards
• VoIP and unified-communications networking principles
• Disaster recovery and network continuity planning
• IT service management and formal change-control principles
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse technical, clinical and business stakeholders

All applicants will be considered, with the understanding that preference will be given in accordance with the Employment Equity Plan of Mediclinic Southern Africa, as well as internal applicants/employees that meet the minimum requirements.

Please note if you are an internal employee on a fixed term contract please apply using an external candidate profile and not your employee profile

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