Description
Are you an ambitious Network Engineer looking for a new challenge? Would you like to join a respected asset management business in a high profile role? Can you demonstrate diverse engineering experience working across network, security and infrastructure? Do you have exceptional hands-on skills in enterprise routing and switching field, preferably Cisco CCNP/CCDP or CCNP Security certified?
This is an excellent opportunity to join an established asset management business, initially on a contract basis with the opportunity to move to permanent employment in the future. Your key duties will be to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot various products and tools in the network and security field to ensure seamless operations of the organisation global infrastructure. Proactively utilise monitoring tools to locate, diagnose and resolve network security related issues throughout the global, large scale, multi-protocol and multi-vendor infrastructure. Plan and execute network and security changes with proper anticipation of risk, outage, and impact, perform data centre operational work, managing and maintaining business critical data centres and work with various vendors in resolving support cases, RMAs, platform upgrades and refreshes.
As the ideal candidate you will be able to demonstrate strong AWS infrastructure experience with focus on data engineering services. Effective hands-on skills in enterprise routing and switching field, preferably Cisco CCNP/CCDP or CCNP Security certified. Strong fundamental knowledge of TCP/IP stack, application protocols (DHCP, DNS, HTTP, SNMP, NTP) and networking protocols and concepts (BGP, OSPF, VRF, NAT, Clustering, High Availability, Load Balancing, QoS). Strong hands-on experience with networking products such as Cisco Routers, Cisco Nexus/Catalyst Switches, Arista and Aruba Switches, exposure to network security products, preferably Zscaler, Palo Alto and Cisco ASA is a big plus.
The role is offered on an initial contract basis with expectation of moving to permanent employment in the future, day rate of circa £300 Inside IR35 - Hybrid working 3 days in the office each week subject to business requirements