network engineer London, England
Job description
Network Engineer
Location: West London (Hybrid working)
Salary: Ideally up to £50,000
About:
My client are always looking to innovate and provide the best technological solutions for their employees, customers, and clients. Their Infrastructure Team which the backbone to this, provides the foundations to leverage technology, driving insights, efficiency and providing cutting-edge technological solutions across the group.
They are currently seeking a network engineer to join our Infrastructure Team to support, maintain, optimise the performance, resiliency, and security of their network infrastructure. The networking environment consists of Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Brocade, Dell and SolarWinds platforms alongside networking services hosted within AWS and Azure.
This is a fast-paced dynamic environment and a fantastic opportunity with exposure to next generation networking technologies and to utilise your skills and expertise to assimilate new technologies. You will also gain the opportunity to work with various solution alongside these both on-premises data centres and within public cloud network infrastructure such as Azure and AWS.
Role Brief:
A Network Engineer working within the Infrastructure Team with a primary focus on maintaining network infrastructure. A hybrid role working both within network operations/3rd Line and project delivery.
Requirements:
- Experience working within both project delivery and BAU/Operations.
- Demonstrate the ability to proactively diagnose and troubleshoot networking faults and performance issues.
- Demonstrate good understanding of cyber security principles, priorities, and incident management.
- Maintain network software and hardware lifecycle.
- Maintain Technical Documentation.
- Proactively monitor network performance, utilisation, and health alerts.
- Network commissioning and installation experience
- Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to discuss network requirements and collaboration with other technical teams.
- Maintain good relationships with partners and key stakeholders.
- Awareness of latest industry technologies and security best practices
- Participate on bi-monthly on-call SOC rota.
Essential:
- Minimum 5 Year working experience within enterprise networking.
- Valid CCNP Enterprise or working towards.
- Proficient with Cisco LAN (Wired and Wireless) WAN, Security and Data Centre Networking.
- In-Depth knowledge & practical experience of routing and switching.
- Practical experience of working with next-generation firewall technologies i.e., Palo Alto Gateways and Cisco Firepower Services.
- Practical experience of secure wired, wireless and VPN onboarding.
- Experience of working within the ITIL framework and demonstrate its use and standards within change control, operations, and project delivery.
- Experience with working with network monitoring tools (SolarWinds) and Wireshark
Desirable:
- Cisco CCNA/CCNP Security or equivalent
- Palo Alto PCSNA or PCSNE or equivalent
- F5 Local Traffic Management experience
- SolarWinds NPM, NCM, NTA experience
- Cisco SD-Access/WAN, DNA Centre experience
