Network Associate

*About Us* Abacus Health Solutions is an innovative health management company with a strong history in the development and management of chronic condition programs.
Utilizing the latest in healthcare technologies, Abacus translates evidence-based medicine into real world interventions.
Our programs for diabetes and hypertension are built to foster high rates of adoption, resulting in healthier, more productive employees.
Abacus values diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
This results in greater innovation and collaboration, leading to better solutions.
As such, we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Abacus offers a competitive benefits package and a hybrid work schedule allowing work from home and in-office work.
*Company Background* From its inception in 1988 and at its core, *Abacus Health Solutions* has been a research and development firm.
Today Abacus translates evidence-based medicine to real world interventions for our clients and their employees.
A strong behavioral science background shapes the development of all our solutions.
Abacus uses these strengths and an experienced team of healthcare experts, technologists, and clinicians to develop and deploy innovative health behavior change tools and targeted programs to help employers control rising healthcare costs and provide high quality health benefits that optimize the health and productivity of their workforce.
Abacus works with every client to develop a program that fits the needs and goals of each unique organization.
We are excited and passionate about the work we do, and the success of our programs has enabled our recent growth.
*Job Description* We are seeking a *Network Associate* to join our team in response to our growth.
This member will work in our network engineering group and will help to troubleshoot and solve issues for existing or new implementations.
This role will also be a senior resource for our Help Desk for complex issues but will also maintain a portfolio of projects to help support the needs of the business.
This position will work closely with stakeholders across different business areas to ensure we deliver excellent solutions and superior internal and external customer service.
The optimal candidate will possess a breadth of knowledge and experience across networking, systems, and security operations.
*Primary Responsibilities* * Maintain and improve the current network solutions to ensure efficient system operation with increasing redundancy and resilience to continuously improve uptime and smooth network operations.
* Monitor, configure and maintain the overall IT network architecture including but not limited to, Firewall, IDS/IPS, SSO, endpoint security, MDR, email, SIEM integration, and mobile device best practices.
* Works directly with product owners, internal stakeholders, and vendors to troubleshoot and deploy new system configurations and or updates to existing connections to ensure application reliability and security best practices.
* Refines processes to secure baseline hardening configurations of network, security, desktops, servers, including cloud-based and native applications using best practices and ensuring system adherence to CSI baselines.
* Maintain network security policies, standards, hardening best practices based on HIPAA, PCI, NIST, HITRUST and DSS.
* Primary responsibility, with assistance from other team members, to maintain optimum security posture by leveraging vulnerability tools, analysis to identify gaps, recommend and implement optimal solutions.
* Participates in the formal incident response efforts for intrusions and exploits, incident investigations.
* Acts as an escalation point for helpdesk events for problem resolution.
* Ability to mentor and train new team members to ensure skillsets are at an appropriate level to ensure our policies and procedures are implemented effectively.
* Responsible for engineering and supporting network security technologies.
* Ability to lead and execute infrastructure projects in cloud-based or on-prem environments.
* Must be self-motivated, team oriented and able to work in an agile, fast-paced environment with excellent written and communication skills.
*Job Requirements* * Associates degree or substantial equivalent experience in the field with advanced IT certifications.
* Relevant security and network engineering design or equivalent experience with network design, firewall administration or other related work * Proven ability to communicate technical and business requirements effectively in written and oral format.
* Ability to problem solve independently or within a group setting.
* Ability to efficiently use internal tools, ticket tracking systema and network diagramming software.
*Preferred Experience* * One or more industry applicable certification, CCNA, CYSA+, Sec+, CISM, Network+ * Strong technical expertise required in one or more of the following areas: Firewalls, Network Intrusion Detection, Prevention Systems, Routers and Switches, MDM, EDR, SIEM, AI, Machine Learning, Packet decoding and analysis, Web Proxy Servers, Load Balancing, SSL VPN Solutions, Web application firewalls, and data loss prevention technologies, *Our benefits package includes:* * Company-sponsored health, dental, and vision coverage currently through Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI * 2 weeks of paid vacation, increased to 3 weeks after your first year at the company.
* 2 weeks of paid sick time * 2 paid personal days.
* 11 paid holidays * 401k plan with 3% automatic company-paid contributions * Flexible Spending Account for pre-tax payment of out-of-pocket health and dependent/childcare costs * Employee profit-sharing bonuses Job Type: Full-time Benefits: * 401(k) * 401(k) matching * Dental insurance * Employee assistance program * Health insurance * Life insurance * Paid time off * Vision insurance Work Location: In person