Senior Network Engineer

Explore opportunities at The Corvallis Clinic, part of the Optum family of businesses. For more than 75 years, our multi-specialty group has been committed to delivering exceptional care to our patients and fulfilling careers to our team members. As a leading clinic in Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley, we serve more than a quarter-million people with offices in Corvallis, Albany and Philomath. Join a team that empowers you from the start and values work-life balance, teamwork and trust. We offer comprehensive benefits and competitive pay. Elevate your career with us and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

As the Network Engineer you are responsible for implementing and maintaining network and security solutions that meet the clinical and business needs of The Corvallis Clinic.  The position requires excellent relevant technical skills and skills in the areas of interpersonal communications, writing, and project management.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement future network and security designs.  Coordinates with adjacent teams to ensure an integrated design.  Stay abreast of technologies to steer the future course of network and security structures.  Evaluates technologies, services, and vendors
• Tracks contract expirations, manages service contract negotiations, and maintains vendor relationships to ensure supportability of the infrastructure.  Where contracts cannot be renewed, informs management of potential risks, and mitigate where possible.  Coordinates with external vendor and partners to resolve issues across the full breadth of network, wireless and security
• Performs investigations to determine RCA (root cause analysis).  Provides remediation recommendations and implement as appropriate
• Knowledge of job adjacencies (System Administration, Phone Administration, Application Development, Database Management, Desktop and Helpdesk support) sufficient to understand integrations issues and support inter-discipline troubleshooting
• Manages and directs external vendors providing services, fulfilling contracts and performing work directly in our environment
• Coordinates and supports, as appropriate, with external businesses renting, partnering, or working out of our facilities as needed
• Addresses environmental concerns (Power/UPS/HVAC) as needed and coordinates with appropriate groups.  Manages replacement of UPS systems specific for ITS
• Performs off hours work as dictated by the business needs
• Performs additional duties as assigned.  Currently this includes, but is not limited to:
  • Maintaining the phone system ecosystem including, but not limited to:
  • Cisco Call Manager
  • Unity Voicemail
  • Contact Center Express (phone queues)
  • IM and Presence
  • Associated Voice Gateways
  • SIP services with Comcast
  • Webex
    • Via the auspices of CompuNet.  Working with them to architect and design the path forward on the phone system ecology
    • Basic maintenance on the physical security system (aurora).  Coordinates adds, moves, changes to the physical hardware (new sites, back panels, and doors). Consults on new building build outs and remodels as relevant to job duties
• Documents support procedures
• Performs other duties within the scope of this position as assigned

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in. 

Required Qualifications: 

• The following combination of experience and education will be considered:
  • Associate degree with 12 years of relevant experience
  • Bachelor’s degree with 8 of years relevant experience
  • Master’s degree with 5 of years relevant experience
• At least 1 of the following Cisco network and security certifications (CCIE, CCNP, CCNA) or equivalents

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Fully understand the complexities within a multi-specialty operation
• Ability to work compatibly with patients, physicians, and other staff
• Ability to set benchmarks and standards to meet and exceed expectations of The Clinic

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.