Healthcare Engineer (Network Engineer)

The Network Engineer at Robley Rex VAMC serves as the authoritative technical expert responsible for the architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, and sustained operation of special purpose networked systems that are mission critical to patient care, life safety, and regulatory compliance within a complex medical center environment.Duties are as listed but are not limited to: Engineers, administers, and sustains dedicated on-premises and virtual servers supporting special purpose healthcare systems, including temperature monitoring, pharmaceutical storage compliance, laboratory environments, blood banks, operating rooms, and data centers. Designs high-availability and fault-tolerant architectures ensuring continuous monitoring and alerting to protect medications, biologics, vaccines, and patient-critical assets. Integrates special purpose servers with enterprise network services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewall rules, NAC, and secure remote access) in compliance with VA and federal cyber security standards. Performs advanced troubleshooting of complex, multi-layer system failures involving network hardware, virtual environments, databases, sensors, and application interfaces. Serves as the technical lead for TempTrak system infrastructure, ensuring reliable connectivity between sensors, gateways, application servers, and alerting mechanisms. Configures and maintains secure network pathways to support real-time monitoring, alert escalation, historical data retention, and regulatory reporting. Coordinates system upgrades, patches, firmware updates, and server lifecycle management to minimize downtime and maintain continuous compliance with Joint Commission, FDA, CDC, and VHArequirements. Provides expert consultation to Pharmacy, Laboratory, Engineering, Logistics, Biomedical Engineering, and Patient Safety stakeholders regarding system capabilities, limitations, and risk mitigation strategies. Implements and maintains Defense-in-Depth strategies for special purpose servers, including segmentation, access controls, encryption, logging, and monitoring. Ensures systems comply with VA cybersecurity policies, NIST, FISMA, and Authority to Operate (ATO)requirements. Participates in vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation activities specific to clinical monitoring platforms. Develops and maintains documentation, diagrams, and SOPs required for audits, inspections, and accreditation surveys. Designs and supports enterprise network solutions that integrate special purpose systems without degrading performance or security of the broader hospital network. Leads network changes impacting clinical infrastructure, including firewall changes, routing updates, switch configurations, and wireless connectivity required for monitoring devices. Collaborates with regional and national OIT teams to align local implementations with enterprise architecture standards. Acts as the subject matter expert (SME) for special purpose systems