OET CCIE

The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) Office of Enterprise Technology (OET) is responsible for the design installation performance management and troubleshooting of all aspects of networking infrastructure down to the switch port for its more than 35 locations located across Marylands 24 local jurisdictions. This includes a DataCenter with a Cisco Hyperflex environment as well as office buildings local health departments and 24x7x365 inpatient care facilities. MDH OET utilizes Cisco products for routing switching wireless networking remote access security hardening and network monitoring.

MDH OET needs a resource to fill the senior highest-level technical position on the MDH Infrastructure addition to the responsibilities listed below this resource will also act as a technical mentor and on-the-job trainer of less senior OET Infrastructure staff.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Lead network architecture and design including scalability and capacity planning hardware evaluation and selection and designing efficient infrastructure solutions to meet organizational needs
  
• Configure test and deploy Cisco network infrastructure equipment; maintain the Cisco Catalyst Center environment
  
• Manage security and compliance by configuring updating administering and troubleshooting Firepower appliances and Cisco ISE
  
• Ensure all network infrastructure components meet required security and regulatory standards
  
• Provide leadership and mentorship by leading large-scale migrations and hardware refresh projects end-to-end
  
• Coach junior and mid-level engineers to enhance technical skills
  
• Contribute technical input for annual IT budget planning
  
• Act as the final point of escalation for network issues and troubleshooting
  
• Utilize monitoring tools to identify bottlenecks and optimize network performance
  
• Collaborate on disaster recovery planning including creating and testing failover strategies to ensure high availability
  

Education:

This position requires a Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Business or a related scientific or technical discipline. (Note: A Masters degree is preferred.)

General Experience:

The proposed candidate must have:

At least six (6) years of experience in systems engineering

Specialized Experience:

The proposed candidate must have:

• At least three (3) years of experience supervising system engineers
  
• Experience with interactive and interpretive systems including online real-time data acquisition capabilities
  
• Must possess a current Enterprise CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure certification
  
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in the following areas:
  
• Routing protocols: BGP OSPF EIGRP
  
• Network technologies: VLANs VPC STP
  
• Security protocols and architecture: IPsec SSL/TLS Zero Trust
  
• Cisco Nexus platforms
  
• Cloud connectivity solutions: Direct Connect ExpressRoute
  
• VoIP protocols: SCCP SIP H.323 MGCP RTP SRTP QSIG
  
• Cisco security solutions: ASA FirePower ISE AnyConnect
  
• Quality of Service (QoS)
  
• Infrastructure as Code tools: Cisco Catalyst Center Terraform
  
• Monitoring tools: SolarWinds NetFlow Catalyst Center SNMP
  
• Troubleshooting and issue resolution
  

Additional Information:

• Regular working hours for this position are Monday - Friday 8:30 am 5:00 pm.
  
• Because MDH OET supports 24/7/365 patient care environments working outside of regular work hours and on weekends both scheduled and unscheduled will be required.