Network Administrator

Description

“Sanitas is a global healthcare organization expanding across the United States. Our services include primary care, urgent care, nutrition, lab, diagnostic, health care education and resources for our patients. We strive to attract professionals who believe in our mission, vision and are dedicated to the service of our patients and their families creating a memorable experience through compassion, respect, and kindness.”

Job Summary

The primary function of the Network Administrator is to set up, administer, monitor and support the network infrastructure and ensure security, availability and performance levels are met.

Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Fully support, install, configure, maintain and upgrade corporate customer’s networks.
• Engage in regular network troubleshooting activities and resolve network connectivity issues.
• Oversee installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of network equipment as well as network connected equipment.
• Ensure network security and connectivity evaluating and recommending system upgrades, patches, security improvements, system upgrades and new applications and equipment.
• Monitor network performance to ensure reliability (availability, utilization, throughput, goodput, and latency). This can include reviewing error logs, conducting regular tests of system speed and reliability, and following up on issues reported by users.
• Provide technical support and guidance for users in network related topics with a variety of operating systems.
• Prepare and maintain documentation of network configurations and cabling layouts.
• Train team members on new hardware or software.
• Conduct routine system audits to assess security and stability, changing configuration to resolve issues or improve reliability.
• Assist in network design and implementation.
• Monitor policies for the use of network resources.
• Create and maintain network users/permissions.
• Test release of products to minimize user impact and ensure compatibility.
• Create technical support documentation for systems and applications.

Qualifications

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science or related field of study.

Required Experience

• 2 years’ experience in local area network and wide area network administration role.

Required Licenses and Certifications

• N/A

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong understanding of computer network infrastructure.
• Ability to implement, administer, and troubleshoot network infrastructure devices.
• Knowledge of application transport and network infrastructure protocols.
• Ability to create network diagrams and documentation for design and planning network communication systems.
• Ability to quickly learn technologies and products using documentation and internet resources.
• Ability to work with all levels of IT staff inside and outside the organization.
• Ability to think through problems and visualize solutions.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Dependable and flexible when necessary.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Server environments.
• Good verbal and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Detail-oriented, well-organized, analytical skills.
• Great Customer Service.

Preferred Qualifications

• MCSE certification preferred.
• CCNA certification preferred.
• Experience with Meraki, Fortinet, Silver Peak and Palo Alto preferred.

Financial Responsibilities

Budget Responsibilities

Languages

Travel

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions

Inside: The employee is subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.

Physical/Environmental Activities

Please indicate with an X the frequency for the activities that apply to the essential functions of the job based on the chart below. Please select Not Required for physical demands that aren’t essential to job performance.