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Principal Network Engineer IS

Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit health care system providing comprehensive services across the western United States, committed to compassionate care.

Providence

Employee count: 1001-5000

Salary: 212k-283k USD

United States only

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Partners with Engineering, Development, QA, and Program/Project Management peers to translate caregiver, business and technical requirements into components of a service architecture, ensuring that the service will meet compliance and operability standards, and KPIs around resilience, availability, quality, cost, and caregiver expectations. Creates and identifies standards and best practices and is responsible for building and implementing required architecture in partnership with other IS engineering teams. Designs components of a service delivery system that defines tools, hardware, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation, resulting in a complete system that supports service delivery and meets KPIs. Creates detailed project plans including milestones, testing, documentation and implementation. Communicates with stakeholders and applies advanced diagnostic expertise to restore service with minimal disruption to the caregiver and business. During service disruptions and degradations, owns the problem, solving it once and for all. Extrapolates from past experiences and delivers innovations. Actively takes part in disaster recovery drills. Participates as needed in incident response management during non-working hours. Owns the design, implementation, testing, and management of alerting and telemetry systems, and disaster recovery and business continuity plans in partnership with other engineering teams to support 24x7 uptime goals. Makes recommendations on capacity requirements, based on service KPIs, evolving caregiver usage scenarios, and proposed new feature releases to enable the team to create a viable cost model. Works with stakeholders to create a cost model and reporting system that enables teams to forecast, track, and report on the costs generated by business and usage scenarios. Maximizes the effectiveness of financial resources. Uses expertise to identify potential platform, system, deployment, security and environmental issues prior to service and solution releases, ensuring an on-time release with measurable improvement in KPIs. Develops and maintains effective processes to automate tasks and ensure compliance with security policies and drives the adoption of a solution across multiple service teams. Owns service and infrastructure lifecycle planning to ensure critical software and hardware components are kept current. Responsible for the information management of applications, device, and infrastructure data inside the CMDB (Configuration Management Database) and associated systems. Establishes service metrics, based on a deep understanding of the end-to-end service, and works with partner teams to analyze data, and identify and drive service improvements. Regularly analyzes operational cost data, identifies cost-saving efficiencies, and influences the business to adopt these efficiencies across the service team.

Option to telecommute fulltime from a state where Providence has offices (AK, WA, OR, CA, MT, TX, NM).

Applicants must have:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Technology Management, or closely related.
  • 8 years experience (or 5 years with Master’s degree) as a Network Engineer, including at least 2 years experience in the healthcare industry.
  • 8 years experience (or 5 years with Master’s degree) in automation, specifically related to deployment, recovery, or other manual processes.
  • 8 years experience (or 5 years with Master’s degree) with scripting with one of PowerShell, Perl, Ansible, VB Script, Python, SQL.
  • 8 years experience (or 5 years with Master’s degree) with n-tier solutions.
  • 8 years experience (or 5 years with Master’s degree) with resilience modeling (failure mode analysis) and ability to simulate service outages for point solutions (automated) and platforms (manually).
  • Past professional experience influencing engineering team members in translating customer and technical requirements into service architecture to meet Quality of Service Expectations.
  • Past professional experience leading and representing the Service in backlog discussions and standups to establish appropriate prioritization of Live Site requirements.
  • 8 years experience (or 5 years with Master’s degree) leveraging data and metrics to drive behavior, process, and priority decisions.
  • Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
  • Strong experience in advanced problem solving using systematic procedures and investigating problems utilizing root cause analysis.

Salary Range by Location: 

  • AK: Anchorage: Min: $102.02, Max: $116.36 
  • AK: Kodiak, Seward, Valdez: Min: $102.02, Max: $121.29 
  • California: Humboldt: Min: $102.02, Max: $121.29 
  • California: Northern California - Except Humboldt: Min: $102.02, Max: $136.08 
  • California: Southern California: Min: $102.02, Max: $121.29 
  • Montana: Except Great Falls: Min: $102.02, Max: $102.02 
  • Montana: Great Falls: Min: $102.02, Max: $102.02
  • New Mexico: Min: $102.02, Max: $102.02
  • Oregon: Non-Portland Service Area: Min: $102.02, Max: $108.47 
  • Oregon: Portland Service Area: Min: $102.02, Max: $116.36 
  • Texas: Min: Min: $102.02, Max: $102.02
  • Washington: Western: Min: $102.02, Max: $121.29 
  • Washington: Southwest - Olympia, Centralia: Min: $102.02, Max: $116.36 
  • Washington: Clark County: Min: $102.02, Max: $116.36 
  • Washington: Eastern: Min: $102.02, Max: $103.54 
  • Washington: Southeastern: Min: $102.02, Max: $108.47

Why Join Providence?

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

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Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system headquartered in Renton, Washington. Established by the Sisters of Providence in 1859, it operates 51 hospitals and over 1,000 clinics, including numerous assisted living facilities, predominantly across the western United States including Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. The organization is committed to delivering high-quality healthcare and has a mission to enhance the health of the community through compassion, dignity, justice, excellence, and integrity.

Providence serves more than 120,000 caregivers and is recognized for providing a wide range of services. It offers outpatient services, home and hospice care, substance abuse treatment, mental health services, and various wellness programs. The extensive network of Providence includes partnerships with several hospital systems such as Covenant Health, Facey Medical Group, and Swedish Health Services. Additionally, Providence has pioneered the integration of innovative health practices to improve access and affordability of health services. In recent years, the system has made strides in enhancing community health through health equity initiatives and a commitment to serve the vulnerable populations in the regions it operates.

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