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Ascension

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🤝 Non-profit

Healthcare • Non-profit

Ascension is one of the nation’s leading non-profit Catholic health systems focused on delivering compassionate, personalized care with special attention to vulnerable populations. In FY2025 Ascension reported providing $1. 7 billion in care for persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs plus $1. 8 billion of unreimbursed care for Medicare patients. Operating across 16 states and the District of Columbia, its network includes about 97,300 associates, 25,300 aligned providers, 90 wholly owned or consolidated hospitals and ownership interests in 29 additional hospitals; Ascension also operates 22 senior living facilities and a variety of other care sites (including home health and health clinics). Its specialties include medical services, nursing, health system operations, and healthcare technology, all grounded in its faith-based mission to bring health, healing and hope to all.

📋 Description

• Own and optimize the enterprise WAN and SD-WAN environment, ensuring resilient, high-performance connectivity across geographically distributed locations and critical business operations. • Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex WAN and routing issues, leading root-cause analysis and restoring service across large-scale, multi-site production networks. • Drive continuous improvement of the network platform through SD-WAN optimization, upgrades, migrations, and operational enhancements across Cisco Meraki and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN environments.

🎯 Requirements

• High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 1 year of experience OR 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required. • 2 years of leadership or management experience preferred. • 8–10+ years of hands-on network engineering experience • Proven experience supporting large-scale, geographically distributed WAN environments • Expert-level experience with: Cisco Meraki SD-WAN • Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) • Strong expertise in: Routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, policy control) • WAN operations, failover, and traffic optimization • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-site network issues under pressure • Experience working in mission-critical, high-availability environments • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) • Additional certifications strongly preferred: Cisco SD-WAN Specialist / Concentration exams, CCIE (Enterprise Infrastructure)

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and HSA/FSA options • Financial security & retirement: employer-matched 403(b), planning and hardship resources, disability and life insurance • Time to recharge: pro-rated paid time off (PTO) and holidays • Career growth: Ascension-paid tuition (Vocare), reimbursement, ongoing professional development and online learning • Emotional well-being: Employee Assistance Program, counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources • Family support: parental leave, adoption assistance and family benefits • Other benefits: optional legal and pet insurance, transportation savings and more