Highlights
The Senior Network Specialist manages infrastructure to ensure voice network availability, performance, and integrity, while supporting and enhancing existing systems and deploying new voice network services. From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Fort Smith, Arkansas |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1986 |
| Website | https://www.mercy.net/ |
Description
Find your calling at Mercy!
The Senior Network Specialist is responsible for the planning, design, acquisition, and implementation of Mercy's voice and data network services. The Senior Network Specialist is responsible for the planning, design, acquisition, and implementation of Mercy's voice network services. This position evaluates business requirements to develop effective solutions, performs cost analysis, and conducts vendor comparisons. The Senior Network Specialist manages infrastructure to ensure voice network availability, performance, and integrity, while supporting and enhancing existing systems and deploying new voice network services.
Position Details:
Location: This position will support our Mercy Fort Smith Hospital and Clinics and is an on-site position.
Schedule Information: Day shift and available to participate in an on-call rotation
Minimum Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Experience:
• Relevant technical experience in network engineering.
• Proficiency in Cisco networking technologies, LAN/WAN, wireless, and VoIP.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience: Experience with cloud networking and automation tools.
Certification(s): Relevant certifications such as CCNP, CCNA or equivalent.
Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:
*Strong understanding of voice network communication protocols and performance analysis.
*Experience of servers and application performance analysis.
*Experience with voice network security practices and compliance standards.
*Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
*Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.
*Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects effectively.
*Familiarity with hybrid network environments and emerging technologies preferred.
Why Mercy?
From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.
Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. As we grow, you'll grow with us.
About Company
Our Mercy health system was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1986. But our heritage goes back more than 185 years. It began with an Irish woman named Catherine McAuley, who wanted to help the poor women and children of Dublin. Though Catherine had a modest upbringing, she received an unexpected inheritance that allowed her to fulfill her dreams. In 1827, she opened the first House of Mercy in Dublin, intending to teach skills to poor women and educate children. Many volunteers came to help. A few years later, Catherine founded the Sisters of Mercy, the first religious order not bound to the rules of the cloister, whose Sisters were free to walk among the poor and visit them in their homes. By the time Catherine died in 1841, there were convents in Ireland and England, and in 1843, the Sisters of Mercy came to the United States. In 1871, they traveled to St. Louis and from there throughout the Midwest, beginning what would, today be known as Mercy.
Mercy, named one of the top five large U.S. health systems in 2018, 2017 and 2016 by IBM Watson Health, serves millions annually. Mercy includes more than 40 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, 800 physician practices and outpatient facilities, 44,000 co-workers and 2,100 Mercy Clinic physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In addition, Mercy's IT division, Mercy Technology Services, supply chain organization, ROi, and Mercy Virtual commercially serve providers and patients in more than 20 states coast to coast.