Platform Systems Engineer

Location:

Rosedale Office Building

Department:

IS Epic

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Standard Weekly Hours:

40

Summary:

An independent contributing IT Professional providing engineer level technical and group support within the Platform Systems Engineer family developing and applying technical proficiency in two or more IT disciplines that support Cook Children's platform infrastructure. This includes technology disciplines in Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Nutanix, and Ivanti suite of products along with a proficient level of Windows server and desktop engineering and administration. Capacity planning, research emerging technologies, budgeting, private and public cloud infrastructure, making design decisions, and supporting Epic Client design and delivery. This position requires being a project resource for the Platform Team and Information Services projects. The Engineer position will be assisting and interacting with many customers requiring good communication, customer service and problem resolution skills. This role provides consulting services to Information Services teams and/or customers regarding technologies and the application of specific technology standards. The Engineer position assists Platform staff and other Information Services Professionals. Jobs in this family are responsible for developing, testing, maintaining, installing, and/or deploying technologies including systems, networks, data architectures, capacity planning, performance management, security, configuration management, and disaster recovery. In addition, a Platform Systems Engineer contributes to the establishment, development, and promotion of standard architectures, as well as hardware and software components that are used in the data center, cloud and user environments.

Qualifications:

• Position requires a bachelor's degree and 2 years of direct IT experience or an Associate's Degree and 4 years of direct IT experience or 6 years of direct IT experience and high school diploma or equivalent.
• BA/BS degree in IS or Business preferred.

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification:

One or more of the below Information Technology certifications is required (or must obtain within six (6) months of employment)

• Microsoft: MCSE, MCITP, MCP, MCDST or MCTS
• Microsoft Azure: Administrator, Solutions Architect, Virtual Desktop
• AWS: SysOps Administrator, Solutions Architect
• Google: Cloud Engineer, Cloud Architect
• Citrix: CCA-V, CCP-V or CCE-V
• VMware: VCA, VCP or VCAP
• CompTIA: A+, Server+, Network+ or Cloud+

About Us:

Cook Children's Health Care System

Cook Children's Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the country's leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Children's to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents.

Cook Children's is an EOE/AA, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.