Principal Network Engineer - Telecom Focus

Overview

Careers With Purpose

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We offer development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 Sanford Family members dedicated to health and healing across our broad footprint.

Facility: Remote ND (Central Time)
Location: Remote, ND Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts Job Schedule: Full time Weekly

Hours:

40.00 Salary Range: $49.50 - $81.50

• The Principal Engineer serves as the senior technical authority for a large‑scale enterprise voice and endpoint ecosystem spanning 400+ locations, 50,000 endpoints, and 8 independent Cisco Unified Communications environments. This role provides architectural leadership, drives modernization, ensures platform reliability, and guides engineering teams in delivering a resilient, secure, and scalable communications infrastructure.
• Lead the technical design and implementation of the organization's network infrastructure, including LAN, WAN, wireless, and network security, to ensure the highest level of performance, reliability, and security.
• Develop and implement network policies, procedures, and standards that align with industry best practices. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other network engineers.
• Collaborate with other IT teams, business units, and stakeholders to understand and meet network requirements. Develop and maintain network documentation, including diagrams, configurations, and procedures.
• Stay current with emerging network technologies and trends and provide proactive recommendations about future state goals and technologies. Work with vendors and service providers to evaluate and implement new network technologies, tools, and services.
• Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans for the networking infrastructure. Lead concurrent network projects to improve performance, reliability, and scalability. Coordinate with infrastructure and security architects, network engineers, business analysts, leadership, and other stakeholders to ensure timely project completion and proactive maintenance.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field required.
• Eight years experience in network engineering with at least two years in a senior or principal level role.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with network routing, switching, LAN/WAN, wireless, network design and architecture, network protocols, and network security.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor network engineers.
• Advanced networking certifications desired.

• Must possess advanced technical knowledge and experience along with excellent communication, collaboration skills, and presentation skills across technology disciplines.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal oversight as well as collaboratively as part of multi‑disciplined teams.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
• Ability to prioritize and lead multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously.

Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home‑work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call or send an email to talent.

Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

Req Number: R-0247248 Job Function: Information Technology Featured: No