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The Driscoll Health System is looking for a Network Administrator to support our growing network operation throughout South Texas. In this role, you’ll be working with a talented technical services team on an intricate, modern and highly dynamic network. If you’re talented, love to learn, and enjoy troubleshooting, this position is a great opportunity to grow your skills and contribute to the Children of South Texas.
General Purpose:
Under direction, facilitates the efficient operation and advanced support, build, and implementation of network systems across the enterprise; includes installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all local and wide area network connections, associated software, and communication links; troubleshoot advanced network performance issues; analyze network traffic and provide capacity planning solutions; performs other systems related work as required.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Under minimal guidance, performs work that is varied and that may be someone difficult in character.
- Functions as a technical resource in the planning and direction regarding computer, network, resources, and services for both LAN’s, WAN’s and wireless networks.
- Coordinates with other resources, departments, organizations and agencies as needed.
- Serves as a technical resource and technical escalation point in regards to the Driscoll Health Systems network, IS staff and associated issues.
- Evaluate, design, install, maintain and configure network infrastructure components, wireless infrastructure, switches and routers; confers with vendors on software and hardware technical issues.
- Maintains the integrity of the security of the Driscoll Health Systems network including password access, file access, intruder access, and protection against viruses and SPAM.
- Create and implement policies, procedures and programs for network asset management, including maintenance of network component inventory, related documentation, and technical specifications information to improve or supplement network infrastructure.
- Monitor system capacity to determine its effect on performance and recommend enhancements to meet new or changing network demands.
- Reads technical journals and attends seminars and workshops to learn about new developments and changing technology trends; may participate in testing new vendor provided software in a test environment for possible use by the health system.
- Maintains contacts with vendors of software, hardware or communication equipment; attends product demonstrations and/or arranges to acquire and install system upgrades.
- Performs other related work as required.
Education and/or Experience:
- Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying.
- Typically has more than 3 - 5 years of professional experience in Information Systems including 2 - 4 years in network administration.
- Bachelor's degree and typically 5 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 3 or more years' experience or an equivalent combination of education and 2 years’ experience in a network support capacity.
- Typically has one or more certifications. Example certifications include, but not limited to: (CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network, MCSA, MCSE, CCENT, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE)
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