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Founded in 2000, DrFirst is the nation’s leading e-prescribing and solutions platform provider to physician practices, major health plans, health systems, hospitals, and EHR vendors. Through its Open Borders Program, DrFirst solutions integrate with over 200 EHR, practice management and HIT systems. A Surescripts Gold Certified solution provider for four consecutive years with its award-winning Rcopia electronic prescription management system, DrFirst utilizes the Surescripts network for pharmacy connectivity, health plan information, and patient medication history. Candidates applying to DrFirst, Inc. should be prepared for the excitement and advancement opportunities presented by a successful, cutting edge company. Candidates should be highly motivated and ready to make a contribution to DrFirst, Inc’s business mission
The Sr. Network Engineer is in charge of architecting new environments and making changes to those existing environments in the LAN/WAN production data center.
The main responsibilities are as follows:
Monitor the network functions on a daily basis.
Carry out capacity planning.
Install network appliances.
Diagnose and remediate distributed application outages and performance issues.
Specialize in load balancer, router and switching infrastructure support.
Provide data networking (routing and switching) skills to the organization. (may include routing support for rip, eigrp, ospf, bgp, hsrp, vrrp. May also include layers 1 and 2 such as ppp, hdlc, ipsec).
Support network infrastructure including servers, routers, switches, firewalls and IPS/IDS.
Perform application impact analysis. Analyze the application traffic patterns and determine the impact to production links using tools like wireshark, syslog, MRTG etc.
Create and support QOS (Quality of Service) on the Network.
Provide maintenance, support and documentation as required.
Desired Skills & Experience
Position Requirements:
BS in an IT-related discipline or equivalent education and experience
Minimum of 5 years of related experience in a networking role
Proficiency with Cisco networking systems
Strong, senior level, technical, data center knowledge and experience that includes:
Proficiency in Window/Linux servers
Distributed application design
Inter-process communication and protocols
Installation/configuration of any network appliance (firewall, router, switch, load balancer) with a particular emphasis on Cisco and F5 equipment
Extensive data center LAN design
Experience in Cisco UCS strongly recommended
Experience in a variety of network diagnostic and monitoring hardware and software tools
Proficient in sniffer technology and in reading/analyzing traces to the resolution of inter-process communication
Proven ability to lead and carry out the troubleshooting of data center network issues
Ability and willingness to respond to P1 conditions on a 24x7 basis
Tenacity and critical thinking needed to resolve real time distributed application issues
Strong verbal communication skills
Demonstrable experience in technical writing skills
Strong interpersonal skills needed to constructively work with vendors, peers, managers and customers
Knowledge about NetApp storage recommended
DrFirst offers a generous compensation package including:
Eighteen paid days of annual leave
Medical insurance
401(k) plan with profit sharing
Group life insurance
Disability insurance
Extras
To Apply:
Email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to ****.
DrFirst is an EEO and DrugFree employer, as well as an E-Verify company.
Greg Fleischman
DrFirst, Inc.
9420 Key West Ave
Ste 230
Rockville, MD 20850
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