Healthcare Engineer - Network
Veterans Health AdministrationThe incumbent 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. The position plans, designs, implements, integrates, and maintains high-availability server and network infrastructures supporting clinical, environmental, and compliance-driven systems.The Healthcare Engineer operates in an environment where system failure, latency, or data loss carries immediate patient safety, financial, and accreditation risk, requiring expert judgment and rapid response. The work involves non-routine, highly complex engineering problems that cannot be resolved through standard operating procedures or vendor documentation alone and frequently requires original engineering solutions tailored to healthcare operations. Duties of the Healthcare Engineer include, but are not limited to: Provides technical advice and guidance to the directorate and to contractor personnel to facilitate tasks and projects. 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. 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. Implements and maintains Defense-in-Depth strategies for special purpose servers, including segmentation, access controls, encryption, logging, and monitoring. 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. Acts as the subject matter expert (SME) for special purpose systems during construction, renovation, equipment replacement, and system expansion projects. Leads or supports multidisciplinary teams during system outages, environmental excursions, or emergent risk scenarios. Communicates complex technical information to clinical and executive leadership in a clear, actionable manner. Total Rewards of a Allied Health ProfessionalWork Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8
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