CHS Corporate
Supervisor, Data Center Infrastructure
,
Full Time
Summary:
The Supervisor of Data Center Network Engineering is responsible for leading a team of network engineers in the design, implementation, operation, and optimization of Data Center and WAN (Wide Area Network) infrastructure across a large-scale, distributed healthcare system. The role ensures secure, high-performing, and highly available data center services for 60+ hospitals and 300+ clinical locations.
This position requires hands-on technical leadership, operational excellence, and the ability to manage complex networking projects in a mission-critical, regulated healthcare environment. The role also involves managing and integrating a multivendor network environment, requiring deep expertise in coordinating technologies from Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, and other enterprise vendors to ensure interoperability, security, and performance across all healthcare sites.
Key Responsibilities: Team Leadership & Management
Required:
Join a healthcare system where your work directly supports lifesaving technology and patient care. You'll lead critical infrastructure in a complex, multivendor enterprise environment-and help shape the future of care delivery through secure, reliable network systems.
The Supervisor of Data Center Network Engineering is responsible for leading a team of network engineers in the design, implementation, operation, and optimization of Data Center and WAN (Wide Area Network) infrastructure across a large-scale, distributed healthcare system. The role ensures secure, high-performing, and highly available data center services for 60+ hospitals and 300+ clinical locations.
This position requires hands-on technical leadership, operational excellence, and the ability to manage complex networking projects in a mission-critical, regulated healthcare environment. The role also involves managing and integrating a multivendor network environment, requiring deep expertise in coordinating technologies from Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, and other enterprise vendors to ensure interoperability, security, and performance across all healthcare sites.
Key Responsibilities: Team Leadership & Management
- Supervise a team of LAN/WAN engineers and technicians, including hiring, training, mentoring, and performance evaluation.
- Provide technical direction and prioritize team activities to meet organizational goals and SLAs.
- Act as an escalation point for critical network issues.
- Oversee the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise data center infrastructure.
- Ensure high availability, redundancy, and optimal performance across all facilities.
- Integrate solutions from multiple vendors to maintain a consistent and reliable network architecture.
- Coordinate with facilities and IT teams to support expansions, renovations, and new data center builds or migrations.
- Collaborate with architecture, application, storage, and virtualization teams to implement business ready, scalable solutions.
- Lead data center-related initiatives, including network refreshes and mergers/acquisitions.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to define technical requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
- Maintain documentation and manage change control in accordance with policy.
- Ensure secure Data Center Network and WAN configurations, enforcing access controls and segmentation.
- Support compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, and internal cybersecurity frameworks.
- Work closely with the Security team on incident response, audits, and risk management.
- Oversee use of monitoring systems to detect and resolve performance issues.
- Lead root cause analysis for major incidents and implement corrective actions.
- Continuously improve network health and uptime metrics.
Required:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in enterprise network engineering, including 2+ in a leadership role.
- Demonstrated experience with large-scale data center environments.
- Proficiency in routing/switching protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, EIGRP).
- Experience with Cisco and at least one other major vendor (e.g., Juniper, Palo Alto).
- Strong troubleshooting skills and operational focus.
- Experience communicating and working with vendor partners to evaluate capabilities.
- Professional certifications (e.g., CCNP, CCDP, PCNSE, JNCIP).
- Experience supporting cloud network environments (GCP, Azure, AWS)
- Experience supporting multivendor network environments (e.g., Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto).
- Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments.
- Familiarity with EHR networking (e.g., Epic, Cerner).
- Experience with automation/orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Cisco DNA Center).
- ITIL and experience with service platforms (e.g., ServiceNow
- Occasional travel to sites (10-20%) required.
- Participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
- Hybrid or on-site role depending on operational needs.
Join a healthcare system where your work directly supports lifesaving technology and patient care. You'll lead critical infrastructure in a complex, multivendor enterprise environment-and help shape the future of care delivery through secure, reliable network systems.