Description
1st Line Support Network Engineer
Location: Solihull, Birmingham
A 1st Line Support Network Engineer is urgently required by our Global IT Services Company working on a major defence contract until September 2020 (could be extended) based in Solihull, Birmingham.
We are looking for a 1st Line Network Support Engineer to join a small team of highly skilled engineers based in Solihull to manage and support the Juniper Core Network. (MCN) WAN estate.
Primary Daily duties will be the Provision/Renewal and Support of PKI Prime & Certificate, this will also include a mixture of general support escalations/fault finding and project/implementation work.
The MCN is a high performance, high availability Juniper based network consisting of MX and SRX series devices.
A national security clearance is required for this role but candidates not holding this level of clearance will be considered.
Skills required
- 1st/2nd Line Support/Live Networking experience
- Cisco/Juniper experience
- Customer focused
- Team working
- Flexible, Working & Dynamic
- Self-motivating/Self starter
- Proactive attitude and approach
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge and technical understanding of JUNOS and the Juniper family of Routers and Switches and Firewalls.
- Knowledge of Cisco family of Routers and Switches and Firewalls.
- Knowledge of MSC,TfS, RIO & CASD
- Exposure to PKI Prime/Foundation, JNCIA and familiarisation with VPN's/IPSEC
The Company
A leading global IT services organisation with 10,000 employees and annual revenue of nearly £2 billion in the UK alone. Projects delivered for private, Government, International and Defence customers are some of the largest and most technically innovative solutions found in the world. Their business is rapidly expanding to meet current and future commitments due to numerous exciting programmes currently being developed. These solutions will use the latest technology to resolve some of the most complex requirements for a challenging group of customers.
Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.