Engineer: Network

Mediclinic is an international private healthcare services group, founded in South Africa in 1983, with divisions in Switzerland, Southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia) and the United Arab Emirates.

The Group is focused on providing specialist-orientated, multidisciplinary services across the continuum of care in such a way that the Group will be regarded as the most respected and trusted provider of healthcare services by patients, medical practitioners, funders and regulators of healthcare in each of its markets.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB To design, implement, secure, optimise and support Mediclinic’s enterprise network infrastructure, ensuring the availability, performance, resilience and security of clinical, corporate and medical-device connectivity services. The role supports strategic initiatives including Huawei network modernisation, Electronic Health Record readiness and deployment, Zero Trust Network Access, secure medical-device integration, cybersecurity improvement programmes and hybrid-cloud connectivity.

KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS

• Design, implement and optimise enterprise network services
• Manage network security, Zero Trust Network Access and cyber resilience
• Support healthcare technology, EHR and secure medical-device connectivity
• Drive operational excellence, automation and continuous improvement
• Manage stakeholder relationships and service delivery

Required Education ESSENTIAL EDUCATION:

• Matric.
• A recognised enterprise networking certification at professional level, such as Cisco CCNP, Huawei HCIP or an equivalent professional networking qualification

DESIRED EDUCATION:

• A relevant diploma or degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Relevant vendor or security certification.

Required Experience ESSENTIAL MINIMUM:

• A minimum of five years’ experience in an enterprise network environment.
• Practical experience supporting large-scale LAN, WAN, WLAN and data-centre network services.
• Experience with enterprise routing, switching, network security, firewall technologies, operational support and formal change-control processes.
• Experience supporting high-availability and business-critical technology environments.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with Huawei enterprise campus networking technologies and multi-vendor network environments.
• Experience with Zero Trust Network Access, network segmentation and secure remote-access solutions.
• Exposure to cloud and hybrid network connectivity.
• Experience supporting healthcare technology, clinical systems, EHR platforms or secure medical-device connectivity.
• Exposure to network automation, orchestration, telemetry and analytics

Required Job Skills And Knowledge

• Enterprise routing and switching technologies
• Huawei enterprise campus network technologies
• Multi-vendor enterprise networking
• Network security principles
• Firewall technologies and policy management
• Zero Trust Network Access principles and operations
• Network segmentation and micro-segmentation
• Secure remote-access technologies
• Wireless enterprise networking
• WAN, SD-WAN and IPsec technologies
• Cloud and hybrid network connectivity
• Network monitoring, telemetry and analytics platforms
• High-availability and resilient network design
• Capacity planning and performance management
• EHR and clinical application network requirements
• Secure medical-device connectivity
• IEC 80001 awareness in relation to connected medical-device risk
• Network automation, orchestration and scripting
• Data-cabling standards
• VoIP and unified-communications networking principles
• Disaster recovery and network continuity planning
• IT service management and formal change-control principles
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse technical, clinical and business stakeholders