About the role

What will you do at Community Health Systems?

Summary:

The Principal Technology Engineer provides enterprise-wide technical leadership

and strategic direction for technology engineering initiatives. You’ll guide

modernization efforts, establish engineering best practices, and ensure

solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with long-term business strategy.

This role influences architectural standards and drives innovation across

multiple systems and services.

Essential Duties and

Responsibilities

* Provide technical leadership for enterprise technology strategy, governance,
and architecture alignment for the organization's Data Center networking
environment.
* Lead the design, engineering, implementation, and modernization of enterprise
Data Center network solutions supporting mission-critical business services.
* Define engineering standards, reference architectures, operational
frameworks, and automation practices to improve operational efficiency,
resiliency, scalability, and security.
* Partner with Enterprise Architecture, senior IT leadership, business
stakeholders, and other Principal Technology Engineers to prioritize and
deliver strategic technology initiatives.
* Collaborate across multiple technology domains, including Cloud, Security,
Compute, Storage, Virtualization, Application Development, and Infrastructure
Services, to ensure integrated enterprise solutions.
* Architect, implement, and support Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
(ACI), Cisco Nexus switching platforms, Nexus Dashboard, and enterprise Data
Center fabric technologies.
* Design and maintain highly available Layer 2 and Layer 3 network
architectures utilizing VXLAN, EVPN, BGP, OSPF, VRFs, vPC, multicast, and
related technologies.
* Lead Data Center modernization initiatives, infrastructure refreshes, network
migrations, and strategic technology transformations.
* Provide technical leadership for Data Center expansion initiatives, including
enterprise colocation strategies and integration with Equinix facilities.
* Partner with Network Engineering teams to support enterprise WAN evolution,
including current Juniper SD-WAN deployments and migration toward Cisco
Catalyst SD-WAN.
* Develop and maintain enterprise networking standards, engineering
documentation, reference architectures, and operational best practices.
* Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance for complex
infrastructure initiatives.
* Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve
performance, resiliency, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
* Develop automation strategies utilizing APIs, scripting,
Infrastructure-as-Code, and configuration management tools to improve
operational consistency and efficiency.
* Mentor engineers across teams, fostering continuous improvement, technical
excellence, and knowledge sharing.
* Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex Data
Center networking issues and serve as the highest level of technical
escalation during major incidents.
* Maintain awareness of evolving networking technologies and industry best
practices to support continuous improvement and enterprise innovation.
Skills and Competencies:
* Deep expertise in enterprise technology architecture and modernization
practices
* Strategic mindset with ability to translate business goals into technical
solutions
* Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder influence skills
* Mastery of integration frameworks, and automation strategies
* Demonstrated ability to drive innovation across a complex technology
landscape
* Demonstrated ability to influence enterprise technical direction without
direct authority.
* Mastery of enterprise integration frameworks, automation strategies, and
engineering best practices.
* Demonstrated ability to drive innovation across a complex technology
landscape.
* Expert knowledge of Cisco Data Center networking technologies, including
Cisco ACI, Cisco Nexus 9000 Series, NX-OS, and Nexus Dashboard.
* Expert understanding of enterprise Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking concepts.
* Advanced expertise with VXLAN EVPN, BGP, OSPF, VRFs, vPC, multicast, QoS,
Data Center Interconnect (DCI), and high-availability networking
architectures.
* Strong understanding of enterprise network segmentation, micro-segmentation,
Zero Trust principles, and secure network design.
* Experience integrating Data Center networking with cloud platforms,
virtualization technologies, enterprise security solutions, storage
platforms, and application delivery architectures
* Experience with network automation utilizing Python, Ansible, REST APIs,
Terraform, or similar automation technologies preferred.
* Excellent analytical, documentation, communication, and presentation skills
with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to engineers,
architects, leadership, and executive stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Software
Engineering preferred
* 10+ years of progressive experience in technology engineering or IT solution
development

Which skills does this role require?

Cisco ACICisco NexusVXLAN EVPNBGPOSPFNetwork AutomationInfrastructure-as-CodeZero TrustData Center NetworkingEnterprise ArchitecturePythonAnsibleTerraformREST APIsNetwork SegmentationTechnical LeadershipNX-OSNexus DashboardVXLANEVPNVRFvPCMulticastQoSDCISD-WANJuniper SD-WANCisco Catalyst SD-WANMicro-segmentationEquinixColocationNetwork MigrationData Center FabricNetwork SecurityCloud Integration

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