Senior Health Data OS and Network EngineerJob Location: ** This position will be 100% remote / telecommute work SIGN ON BONUS OFFERED Overview: Varada Consulting, LLC is looking for a full-time Senior Health Data OS and Network Engineer to support our Veterans Affairs client and work with cutting edge healthcare technology. If this sounds like you, then come and join an Award - Winning Team! Voted as Most Innovative and Fastest Growing Company, join our family and work for Varada!** This position will be 100% remote / telecommute work **This is a 10-year, $22.3 billion dollar program's mission which is to provide IT infrastructure modernizations and systems delivery support to our client's IT systems that address some of our client's top priorities, including improving the efficiency of both claims processing and our client's overall experiences when communicating within the organization.Responsibilities:The Senior Health Data OS and Network Engineer will -Review LAN traffic in AITC, VA WAN traffic to Medical Centers and identify abnormal behaviors in traffic patterns. Develop reports using NetScout and other monitoring tools for bandwidth, latency, and application specific messages. Review message logs to make sure all packets are encrypted. Validate and monitor Operating System logs for both Windows and Linux. Validate configuration on the Linux servers after system upgrades and patching. Validate the successful patching to Windows 2012 and 2016 systems, including installation of application, configuration of Roles, Features, policies, and setting to ensure they comply with VA requirements Analyze systems attached to a Storage Area Network are configured with Multipath IO Policy to achieve redundancy and optimized performance.Review NIC teaming configuration for network redundancy and recommend updates to settings for optimizing throughput and performance. Analyze Windows Clustering for High Availability and recommend allocation of resources to the appropriate roles to maintain application requirements. Conduct quality assurance on 36 instances of Red Hat Linux which make up the VX130 Shadow Systems. Validate that Linux authentication with Centrify Software to Windows Domain Controller both support PIV card authentication. Validate systems that are added to the monitoring tools (SCOM and Solarwinds).Support troubleshooting events and provide recommendations to optimize server performance Perform daily review of event logs, status of clusters, and notifications. Prepare and update POAMs to address vulnerabilities identified by Nessus and Penetration Scans monthly in compliance with ATO and ATC. Analyze and provide recommendations to harden servers per VA/DoD STIG guidelines Review physical and virtual server builds to ensure they meet specifications. Conduct quality assurance on sFTP system to ensure it remains in compliance with the Authority to Operate/Authority to Connect (ATO/ATC) required by VA and DoD, the system uses the DoD VA MedCOI network. Conduct quality assurance on group policies/ local policies required by AITC/VA security entities.Requirements: 5+ years of professional work experience is required.Experience independently designing and developing new software products or major enhancements to existing software for a healthcare/clinical environmentAbility to perform as highest-level technical expert, addressing problems of systems integration, compatibility, healthcare semantics, informatics and multiple platformsExperience seeing projects to completionMust have prior experience with installing, patching, and troubleshooting Linux operating systemsExperience performing feasibility analysis on potential future projects to managementBachelor's degree in Healthcare IT, computer science, electronics engineering, engineering or technical related field, or an additional 10 years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirements. Preferred Qualifications: Experience implementing Electronic Health RecordsExperience with Network Engineering and Internet workingExperience with VA and DoD legacy health data, private sector health dataKnowledge of HP hardware to include Proliant DL Series Servers, Blades and Blade Chassis hardwareFamiliarity with Mellanox NICs and network switches and softwareKnowledge of standard tools and services utilized in enterprise Windows environments to include Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, SMB, RDP, WDS, and Group PoliciesKnowledge of SSL/TLS Certs for securing application trafficMust have knowledge and experience with VistAJoin an Award - Winning Team! Voted as Most Innovative and Fastest Growing Company, Varada Consulting offers highly customized IT capabilities in the federal civilian and DoD market space in support of the mission objectives of the federal government. Varada provides competitive compensation and benefits packages including 100% employer paid healthcare premium.As a federal contractor, Varada Consulting is subject to any federal vaccine mandates or other customer vaccination requirements. As such, all offers of employment may be contingent upon COVID-19 vaccination or an approved accommodation. All new hires are required to report their vaccination status.Varada Consulting, LLC is an Equal Employment Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.