Job Description

Network Engineer – National Veterinary Associates

National Veterinary Associates (NVA™) is the largest private owner of freestanding veterinary hospitals, pet resorts and specialty pet hospitals in the United States, Canada, Australia New Zealand, and newly Singapore. Each general practice hospital, specialty hospital and pet resort operates under their own brand. With rapid annual growth through acquisition, NVA needs people with the ability and knowledge to manage the operation today and tomorrow scale to support a much larger and complex organization.

A cornerstone of the NVA culture is a servant leadership approach to our business, our hospitals, our pet resorts and our teams. We find people who exemplify the same servant leadership approach are best suited for NVA. We are a community dedicated to the love of animals and the people who love them.

Summary:

National Veterinary Associates is looking to hire a Network Engineer to join our growing Business Technology and Operations team. The Network Engineer is responsible for managing network infrastructure including WAN, Firewall, SDWAN, IP Telephony, and 802.11 wireless. The team is in an exciting phase of implementing next generation technologies to support the business in the coming years, and the right candidate will be central in helping to scope and deploy these services to our hospital footprint.

Roles/Responsibilities

• Deploy , monitor, and maintain the network infrastructure that supports the NVA hospitals and support centers
• Document configuration of new and replacement hardware, addition of new services and platforms
• Write KBs for the three levels of support staff in the service center for the solutions you deploy, enable visibility and action to improve incident resolution and reduce escalations
• Create and maintain security rulesets across the environment
• Assist the Telecom team with data circuit provisioning and consultation on new deployments
• Support the Security Team with their initiatives and projects
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain wireless technology at NVA Corporate and hospital sites
• D eployment, and troubleshooting of IP Telephony VoIP solutions
• Ability to perform some system administration in a Microsoft Windows environment
• Excellent customer service skills and empathy

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting e nterprise, multi-site (WAN), branch office environment
• Understanding of Cloud technologies
• Wireless technologies, including wireless security standards
• Strong understanding of route/switch fundamentals, DMVPN experience a plus
• Experience creating application based firewall rulesets
• Router configuration and troubleshooting including high availability and WAN failover
• IP Telephony / Unified Communications experience in a multi-site, multi-vendor environment
• 5+ years direct technical experience.
• CCNA (R+S , Collaboration ), CCNA (Security), or equivalent experience
• Palo Alto Certifications and experience are preferred

NVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Hiring is contingent on candidate verifying their eligibility to work in the United States and passing a complete background check and drug screen.

*This role is not open to receiving agency candidates and any contingent submissions will not be honored.