Network Analyst Iii

**Employment Type***: Permanent Full-time**Location(s)***: SK**Salary Range***: $42.394-$51.582 Hourly**Salary Supplement***: included in hourly salary range (in-scope)**Why eHealth?**
We may be biased, but eHealth Saskatchewan is the place to be right now As the result of a province wide consolidation of IT services in the health care sector, we have seen substantial growth in our organization that is only going to increase as we aim to meet our expanded mandate and the immense need for our support. This gives our people a unique and rare opportunity to truly create, build, improve, and leave their mark on a growing organization.

A large and complex organization, eHealth is comprised of 30+ clinical and non-clinical program (service) areas that all work together to support health care providers and teams across the province in delivering the best possible care to patients, providers, citizens, and health system users. Programs range from primary care to acute care, and includes laboratories, pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Additional programs that also support patient care and information include Virtual Care, the MySaskHealthRecord, and the Provincial Electronic Health Record. eHealth is also responsible for the administration of various pieces of legislation to manage the registration of/changes to all vital event records (e.g. birth, marriage, death, etc.), registration of legal name changes, registration of adoptions, and for maintaining the provincial health registry for health services eligibility and distribution of health services cards.

The eHealth teams engage directly with health system partners and other stakeholders both provincially and federally to ensure all services are delivered efficiently and effectively.

**About the Role**:
Reporting to the Manager, Core Network, the Network Analyst III position will be responsible for supporting the provincial network that securely links all the Health sector partners, facilities, and related agencies. You will directly support an Enterprise Class Datacenter, which provides multiple services to the Health Sector and related Health Organizations such as the Saskatchewan Health Authority, 3S Health, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, Health Quality Council, Saskatchewan Ministry of Health, and clinicians across the province.

This position will be a part of a team of 8 other analysts working with cutting edge VMWare technologies to support the entire Saskatchewan Health Care system. A focus for this role will be to integrate cloud networking and firewall initiatives in the environment and incorporate/develop Network Access Control within our environment. As part of this focus, there is the exciting opportunities to be a change leader as we dive into integrating NSX Security deployment as a part of a private cloud initiative to enhance East/West security within the VMware hypervisor. With large impacts, a great team, and loads of intrinsic value as we serve Saskatchewan’s health care system, this position will keep you on your toes and become something to highlight within your career.

**Typical daily duties will include**:

- Day to day support regarding performance issues or network connectivity issues
- Manage installations and upgrades of LAN/WAN equipment in both the data center and facilities.
- Lead network infrastructure changes including new designs or redesigns of network components
- Perform IOS upgrades
- Provide, create, and update documentation. (i.e. network diagrams, support documentations)
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members

**You will have extensive working knowledge and understanding in the following areas**:

- Extensive experience with the following Cisco devices:

- Switches - LAN/Core/Distribution/Datacenter (Catalyst/Nexus)
- Firewalls - ASA/NGFW, IPS Source Fire/Firepower
- Routers - Branch/Datacenter (ISR/ASR)
- Extensive knowledge with Routing and Switching fundamentals

**Proficiency and strong technical knowledge in**:

- Routing protocols - OSPF,EIGRP, IGRP, BGP
- Network Protocols - TCP/UDP, FTP, SFTP, TFTP, SMTP, HTTP/HTTPS, SIP, DHCP, DNSManagement
- Protocols - SNMP, SSH, Telnet, ICMP, CDP
- Security Protocols - VPN, IPSEC, GETVPN, TLS, SSL
- Working experience with WAN technologies (MPLS,VPLS, SD-WAN, Internet/DSL, ISDN)
- Working experience supporting VPN technologies such as IPSEC, DMVPN and GETVPN
- Experience supporting ADC (Application Delivery Controller) Load Balancers such as F5 or Citrix
- Knowledge of Enterprise Monitoring concepts and network related tools such as packet sniffers
- Video over IP and Voice over IP experience with a solid understanding of QoS protocols would be an asset
- Experience supporting an enterprise wireless network would be an asset
- Record of delivering large scale IT technology refreshes or evergreen programs
- ITIL service delivery concepts, with a focus on Change, Incident, Problem and Service request management
- Strong communication skills and customer service