Healthcare Network Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Healthcare Network Engineer (GS-12 full performance level)
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00am–4:30pm

Description

Serve as the authoritative technical expert responsible for the architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, and sustained operation of mission-critical networked systems supporting patient care, life safety, and regulatory compliance. Plan, design, implement, integrate, and maintain high-availability on-premises and virtual server and network infrastructures for clinical and compliance-driven environments. Provide secure, fault-tolerant networking and act as SME for systems during construction, renovation, equipment replacement, and expansion.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and sustain dedicated on-premises and virtual servers for special-purpose healthcare systems (e.g., temperature monitoring, pharmaceutical storage compliance, lab environments, blood banks, operating rooms, data centers).
• Design high-availability and fault-tolerant architectures with continuous monitoring and alerting.
• Lead TempTrak system infrastructure to ensure reliable connectivity between sensors, gateways, application servers, and alerting.
• Configure and maintain secure network pathways for real-time monitoring, alert escalation, historical data retention, and regulatory reporting.
• Implement and maintain Defense-in-Depth for special-purpose servers (segmentation, access controls, encryption, logging, monitoring).
• Develop and maintain documentation, diagrams, and SOPs for audits, inspections, and accreditation surveys.
• Design and support enterprise network solutions integrating special-purpose systems without degrading performance or security.
• Lead network change work impacting clinical infrastructure (firewall changes, routing updates, switch configuration, wireless connectivity).
• Serve as SME during construction/renovation/equipment replacement/expansion projects and during multidisciplinary outages, environmental excursions, or emergent risk scenarios.
• Communicate complex technical information to clinical and executive leadership.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases.
• Paid Time Off: 37–50 days annual paid time off per year (annual leave, sick leave, and Federal holidays).
• Paid parental leave after 12 months.
• Child care subsidy after 60 days (eligibility based on income).
• Federal pension and 401K with up to 5% contributions.
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance options.
• Limited ad-hoc telework; role is not virtual.