Network Architect

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organizationNetwork Architect - Posting #25859Salary: $175,000-180,440Position Summary:Sea Mar Community Health Centers is seeking a Network Architect. This position is Full-time with benefits and it is based out of South Seattle, the South Park area. As a network/telecommunications manager, you will be focused on infrastructure uptime for our 85 sites, 2 data centers, and 3000 employees, directly supervising the networking and telecommunications teams and reporting to the CIO. Planning for maintenance, growth, security, and compliance for the network and phone systems is essential. A deep understanding of networking principles and architecture is required to enhance network redundancy and availability, including failover data centers.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Responsible for maintaining and ensuring compliance with the organization’s technical architecture standards, including ongoing gap analysis and recommendations.Provides regular updates to standards as needed.Ensure optimum network and system security through effective use of monitoring, logging, and enforcing standards.Maintain sections of the organization’s Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan, including network and telecommunications sections. Maintenance includes scheduled testing and plan updates.Planning redundancy and scalability for all new enterprise environments.Maintenance planning, execution, and monitoring.Monitoring/identification of trends in usage, traffic, storage, and proposed capacity management remedies.Management and monitoring of network rollouts as well as patches/updates to existing systems.Develop projections for networking budgeting and strategic planning.Provide after-hours support as needed.Manage work tasks and activities of network administrators and telecommunications administrators, including planning, mentoring, and training.Qualifications:RequiredDemonstrated ability to manage and lead a team of IT personnel.Expert knowledge and demonstrated experience with oversight of complex, multi-site LAN/WAN configurations.Expert knowledge and demonstrated experience with oversight of mixed environment server farms, including documentation experience.Experienced with Cloud and on-premises security, capacity, throughput, failover, cost evaluation, and management.Demonstrated experience with VoIP systems.Management of vendors and contracts.Demonstrated ability to manage simultaneous projects and responsibilities.History of change management and documentation skills.Education and/or Experience:RequiredBachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field.CISSP.CCNA.Minimum of 5 years of experience in managing a multi-site IT infrastructure.English speaking is required.DesiredExperience with vendor management or 5 years in Fortune 500 sales/systems engineering.What We Offer:Sea Mar offers talented and motivated people the opportunity to work in a dynamic and growing community health organization. Working at Sea Mar Community Health Centers is more than just a job; it’s a fulfilling career with opportunities for advancement. The fringe benefits surpass most companies. For example, full-time employees working 30 hours or more receive an excellent benefit package of:MedicalDentalVisionPrescription coverageLife InsuranceLong Term DisabilityEAP (Employee Assistance Program)Paid-time-off starting at 24 days per year + 10 paid Holidays.We also offer 401(k)/Retirement options and an exciting opportunity to work in a culturally diverse environment.How to Apply:To apply for this position, complete the online application and click SUBMIT or APPLY. If you have any questions regarding the position, email

jobposting@seamarchc.org .Sea Mar is an Equal Opportunity EmployerPosted 11/30/2023Please visit our website to learn more about us at www.seamar.org.

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