Description
Senior Network Engineer - Amsterdam
The Senior Network Engineer is required in the current organization to assess project requirements, review high level design and provide/implement low level designs supporting the company ISP and IT data centers. She/he collaborates with engineers in the appropriate countries and other Corporate departments
Engineering activities with focus on datacenter network domain inc Firewalls, load balancing, Cisco network devices.
Key duties:
1. Engineering design (Main Responsibility)
Understand the business requirements and translate them into technical network solutions (capacity and functionalities), support the budgeting and spend justification process (Bills of Material, network drawings etc.) Produce low level design from high level design.
Lead and contribute necessary design and implementation work for new projects in an optimal and cost effective way, according to company technical guidelines
Produce network engineering solutions and designs, bills of material, implementation & migration plans and documents taking into account all related network elements
Carry out data center network implementations and migrations and handover the new deployments to Operations and to 3rd parties
2. Problem and Compliance management
Deal with major incidents in terms of Tier-3 escalations
Provide root cause analysis on major incidents and follow up on corrective measures
Discover and address systematic problems in the network design
Liaise with the vendors for major incident and problem management
Essential skills/experience:
Strong knowledge of data centre Network domain inc Firewalls (checkpoint), load balancing (NF5/Radware) and Cisco ntw devices.
Strong knowledge of high end Cisco and Nexus platforms
Strong knowledge of Checkpoint Firewalls including Management Infrastructure (Provider-1) as well as Firewall Enforcement Points (> VPN-1 NGX R62)
Strong knowledge of Remote Access Solutions (eg Checkpoint Connectra/EndPoint Connect)
Strong knowledge of Radware (AppDirector) and F5 (BigIP) Application Delivery Controller
Good Experience with Unix Systems and Scripting languages
Expert user of Microsoft Windows, Office Suite and Visio
Fluent in spoken and written English
Good interpersonal skills, able communicator
Team player but able to work independently to achieve tasks where necessary.
Experience in multinational and multicultural environments.
Bachelor degree in Information Technology or Computer/Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience
Cisco certified engineer (exp in Cisco data center Switches) requires hands on implementation of designs in data centre network domain experience (and also troubleshooting)
Need to be able to assess project requirements, review high level design and produce (then implement) low level designs based on data center network domain.
Senior Network Engineer - Amsterdam