Description
Network Engineers/Architects
Base - Cheshire (Plus Remote Working)
Pay Rate - Competitive Daily Rate
6 - 12 Month Initial Contract
Overall purpose of role:
- To work for the Solutions Design and Delivery team to ensure efficient delivery of the projects in a variety of Network technologies including LAN, WAN, SDN, Wireless, Load Balancing and Security.
- Work with Key stakeholders and Project Managers to create Low level designs which adhere to defined architectural standards.
- Delivery Engineer is responsible for ensuring that any designs are implemented in line with current architecture and documentation is fit for purpose.
- Be responsible for end to end delivery of the Project tasks.
- Work with global support teams to transition knowledge of individual deliveries.
- Contribute to the management of risk to ensure;
- Compliance to regulatory and mandatory policies
- Audit findings and Issue Assurances are fully addressed
Key Accountabilities
- Solution engineer is responsible for design, build and deployment activities to deliver appropriate solutions to meet customer requirements within budget and governance framework.
- Subject Matter Expert in one or more network technologies and working knowledge across some other network technologies.
- Ensure compliance to all GTIS disciplines including participation in governance, change management and risk/audit requirements.
Stakeholder Management and Leadership
- Candidate will work with internal stakeholders and with external vendors to achieve his/her project objectives.
- Timely update and whenever necessary timely escalation of issues to right stakeholders.
- Accurate estimation of workload and timelines for delivery.
Decision-making and Problem Solving
- Candidate should have excellent analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities.
- He/she should be confident enough to take decisions in due course of a project either to improve the deliveries or to avoid any delays or issues in the delivery.
Person Specification
- Experience in designing or supporting network solutions in a regulated industry or large organization.
- Capable of bringing together knowledge from multiple sources and consolidating into an end-to-end solution.
- A proactive approach to workload completion.
- The ability to effectively communicate and explain complex solutions
- Experience in participating in international teams.
- Thorough knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol Suite, VLSM, IP address allocation. (mandatory)
- Detailed understanding of products from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, F5 and Fortinet. (Minimum 1 vendor)
- Experience in Software Defined Network implementation (optional)
Basic Qualifications/Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in designing, implementing or supporting complex networks.
- In-Depth technical understanding of one or more of the below technologies
- F5 LTM and GTM
- Fortigate Firewalls
- Juniper Firewalls
- Cisco Wireless
- Bluecoat/Symantec Proxy (Optional)
- Cisco Routing and Switching
- Cisco ACI
- Juniper Routing and Switching