OCTO Sr. Systems Engineer Master

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionShort Description:

OCTO is looking for a system engineer within the Enterprise Cloud Information Services Team. .

Complete Description:

On April 15th, 2025 the United Medical Center permanently (UMC) closed as Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center GW Health opened to service the in Ward 8. OCTO's Enterprise Cloud and Infrastructure Service's (ECIS) team has been asked to support the the closure of UMC including providing data, infrastructure, networking, and telecommunication services.

ECIS is looking for a qualified resource to serve as system engineer to provide expertise in IT systems related to the operation of a healthcare facility.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Execute the decommissioning of critical hospital IT systems (servers, network infrastructure, SAN/NAS storage, cloud platforms) as part of wind-down operations.
2. Plan and implement structured shutdowns of high-risk systems (e.g., EHR, PACS, pharmacy), ensuring data retention/export aligns with regulatory timelines
3. Lead the final configuration, encryption, and air-gapped backup of legacy data sets, ensuring their safe transfer or archival.
4. Decommission cybersecurity systems (e.g., firewalls, endpoint protection, VPNs) and coordinate revocation of credentials and certificates across domains.
5. Provide Tier 3 escalation support for the final round of critical system incidents before permanent shutdown.
6. Support separating or redirecting key digital infrastructure services (e.g., DNS, DHCP, directory services) to the parent entitys control.
7. Document all decommissioning processes, configurations, and final state inventories for internal and regulatory review.
8. Ensure compliance with healthcare IT regulations, providing evidence of controlled data handoffs, secure data destruction, and hardware sanitization.

Responsibilities:

1. Provides analysis related to the design, development, and integration of hardware, software, man-machine interfaces, and all system-level requirements to formulate an integrated IT solution.

2. Develops integrated system test requirements, strategies, and devices.

3. Directs overall system-level testing.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:

Bachelors degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience

Candidate Skills Matrix:

Following sections are to be filled by the candidate:

Skills | Required/Desired | No. of Years | How many years of experience candidate has?
Bachelors degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience | Desired | 4 years |
Execute the decommissioning of critical hospital IT systems (servers, network infrastructure, SAN/NAS storage, cloud platforms) as part of wind-down o | Required | 7 years |
Plan and implement structured shutdowns of high-risk systems (e.g., EHR, PACS, pharmacy), ensuring data retention/export aligns with regulatory timely | Required | 7 years |
Lead the final configuration, encryption, and air-gapped backup of legacy data sets, ensuring their safe transfer or archival. | Required | 7 years |
Decommission cybersecurity systems (e.g., firewalls, endpoint, VPNs) and coordinate revocation of credentials and certificates across domains | Required | 7 years |
Provide Tier 3 escalation support for the final round of critical system incidents before permanent shutdown. | Highly desired | 7 years |
Support separating or redirecting key digital infrastructure services (e.g., DNS, DHCP, directory services) to the parent entitys control. | Desired | 7 years |
Document all decommissioning processes, configurations, and final state inventories for internal and regulatory review. | Highly desired | 7 years |
Ensure compliance with healthcare IT regulations, providing evidence of controlled data handoffs, secure data destruction, and hardware sanitization. | Required | 7 years |

Background check:

• Extensive criminal history background check will be required. We cannot submit candidates with recent histories (go back seven years) of extensive driving, drug, robbery or any other illegal activity. Any criminal activity on the background check will eliminate the candidate from consideration. If selected, please make certain that you inform all candidates that they will have to complete this criminal background check prior to starting. background checks are required; Federal background checks are NOT compliant under this contract. A background check is a criminal background check that pulls criminal records from State and County Courts in almost every US State.