Technology is exciting. Technology on behalf of better health? That’s off the charts.

Job Description

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

Our Network engineering team involves managing enterprise-wide infrastructure, hybrid networking, and clinical systems support as part of the Enterprise Information Services (EIS) department. Supports high-availability hospital networks, smart hospital rooms (such as Alexa-powered patient integrations), and clinical tools like Epic and Oracle.

We were recently named one of the "Best Places to Work in IT" by Computerworld and ranked #2 among large organizations for hybrid work. The organization’s Healthtech excellence was acknowledged again, this time by the esteemed “CHIME Digital Health Most Wired“ recognition program. Cedars-Sinai was assigned a Level 10—the most prestigious level of certification—among more than 300 surveyed healthcare organizations. Cedars-Sinai netted high scores across multiple verticals and particularly excelled in areas of infrastructure, interoperability, and population health innovation.

Why work here?

Beyond an outstanding benefit package and competitive salaries, we take pride in hiring the best, most committed employees. Our staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a multifaceted, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will you be doing in this role:

The Manager, Network Engineering leads the people, platforms, and operating practices that deliver secure, resilient, and scalable network services across the health system. This role sets technical direction and service priorities for network security and operations, including the enterprise perimeter, remote access, campus and site LAN/WAN, data center, and wired and wireless environments. The manager partners with clinical, business, and technology stakeholders to align network capabilities with organizational goals and to maintain reliable services for a 24x7 healthcare environment.

• Lead, coach, and develop network engineering and operations staff; set clear priorities, assign work, support performance and career development, and build accountability for quality and service outcomes.
• Own the network engineering roadmap, architecture standards, and lifecycle plans. Evaluate new technologies and application requirements, and guide secure, supportable designs that meet availability, performance, scalability, and resiliency needs.
• Oversee design, implementation, maintenance, and support of enterprise LAN/WAN, routing and switching, wireless, data center connectivity, remote access, network perimeter, firewalls, VPN, network access control, authentication, and monitoring platforms.
• Guide network security and operational reviews; maintain standards, procedures, diagrams, and technical documentation; coordinate remediation of vulnerabilities and other identified risks with security partners.
• Provide operational oversight for incidents, problem management, change control, capacity planning, performance monitoring, service-level commitments, and continuous improvement. Lead escalations and root-cause reviews for significant network issues.
• Plan and deliver network infrastructure projects in partnership with project managers, information security, clinical technology, facilities, application teams, vendors, and other stakeholders. Communicate risks, dependencies, and service impacts in clear business terms.
• Coordinate disaster recovery and service continuity planning and exercises for network services. Support an enterprise environment that requires dependable 24x7 operations, including participation in the applicable escalation or on-call rotation.
• Manage team workload and technical resources; contribute to operating plans, vendor coordination, and service metrics, and recommend investments that improve reliability, security, and supportability.

• Promote compliance with applicable organizational policies and healthcare privacy and security requirements, including protection of sensitive information and coordination with compliance and security teams.

Hybrid Remote = must currently live in Los Angeles area or willing to relocate to LA area for onsite requirements

Qualifications

Experience Requirements:

Seven (7) years of progressive experience in network engineering, network security, architecture, or operations in a complex enterprise environment.

Minimum two (2) years of management or formal supervisory experience in a network infrastructure environment, including responsibility for leading staff and/or network teams.

Experience supporting an enterprise environment with 10,000 or more end users.

Hands-on knowledge of enterprise LAN/WAN operations and network technologies such as TCP/IP, routing, switching, QoS, wireless, network protocols, VPN, firewalls, remote access, and network monitoring and management tools.

Ability to lead cross-functional work, prioritize competing operational and project demands, communicate technical issues clearly, and guide incident analysis and resolution.

Preferred Qualifications:

Ten (10) years of progressive network engineering or infrastructure experience, with 5 or more years in people leadership or formal management.

Experience in a regulated, 24x7 mission-critical environment.

Experience with multi-site network architecture, data center and cloud connectivity, software defined LAN/WAN, Metro Ethernet, multicast, NAC, IDS/IPS, vulnerability testing, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.

Experience with network automation and configuration tools, and with service-level, availability, and operational performance metrics.

Educational/Certification Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Active CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) required. Additional relevant certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, CISSP, and/or CCSP preferred.

#LI-Hybrid

#LI-JM1