Network Engineer

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Creation and maintenance of network diagrams and documentation across the group.
• Regular maintenance of network asset inventory, firmware & OS versions.
• Ensuring availability, Integrity of core network services to meet agreed SLA's and KPI are achieved.
• Undertaking all activities with a primary focus on risk mitigation and data security.
• Carrying out day to day tasks relating to network workload on core systems and provisioning/de-provisioning including maintenance and monitoring.
• Network LAN & WAN capacity and optimisation across the group.
• Monitoring and management for Company's core network and perimeter alerts related to capacity – response times - utilisation resources.
• Producing regular reports, using monitoring tools, on overall Network/Firewall health and providing remediation actions and recommended improvements.
• Coordinating with 3rd party providers to ensure regular security and platform upgrade cycles are maintained.
• Troubleshooting complex network issues using protocol analysers and diagnostic tools.
• Building a strong working relationship with colleagues within the Infrastructure Services Team and the wider IT function located at multiple sites across the group.
• Planning, managing, documenting, and delivering infrastructure changes to support business and IT projects.
• Following ITIL best practices for Change Management.
• Enabling the effective transition of services to BAU support.
• Supporting additional technologies as and when required.
• Staying abreast of latest technology trends and identifying new technologies that could provide additional efficiencies and benefits.
• Providing coaching and guidance to Service Desk Team members as and when required.
• May be required to support a rotational on-call posture after normal working hours in response to technical support.

Communication:

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong peer relationships.
• Excellent written and communication skills, with the ability to articulate clearly and concisely under pressure.
• Ability to communicate technical information effectively and clearly to a non-technical audience as well as a technically minded group.
• Ability to communicate clearly in larger team functions such as Change Management meetings to enable timely review of information being presented.

Working relationships:

• Reporting to the Senior Network Engineer (Team Lead).
• Ability to establish and maintain a good team relationship for example mentoring junior members of the team.
• Ability to build strong relationships across the extended IT team and key business areas.

Disposition & Attitude:

• Ability to successfully manage the prioritisation of issues and projects.
• Focused on attention to detail, with a desire to see things through to completion.
• Ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining composure.
• Ability to work independently with a clear focus on ownership and accountability.
• Highly motivated, driven and results focused, able to embrace change at fast pace.

Skills & Knowledge:

Essential

Desirable

• Accredited - Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and proven experience working with:
• Cisco Nexus 9000 core datacentre switches.
• Checkpoint Firewall Administration.
• Meraki MS250/MS350 switches/stacks.
• Meraki Cloud Portal Switch/WAP mgmt. Firmware updates etc.
• Wi-fi – Meraki (e.g. MR46 Series).
• Routing, DIA circuits/MPLS circuits, BGP/OSPF.
• NAT/PAT
• VPNs (site to site, client VPN etc).
• Azure (Networking Skills)
• VMware vCenter (Networking Skills)
• Accredited - Check Point Certified Security Admin (CCSA) and proven experience working with:
• Checkpoint (R81.10 min)
• Smart-1 Management Console
• GAIA & Checkpoint CLI
• Proven experience working with network protocol analyser and diagnostics tools.
• Working knowledge and understanding of best practice IT Frameworks such as ITIL.
• Working knowledge of current IT trends in Cloud and on-premises technologies.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of complex tasks using available resources, as needed.
• Excellent technical documentation (Inc. L3 Diagrams) skills.
• Excellent analytic and troubleshooting skills.

• Knowledge of fibre/stack connections such as SFP, SFP+, QSFP, trunks, aggregated ports etc.

• Checkpoint Certified Security Expert (CCSE) or equivalent.

• Experience of Checkpoint Maestro Solutions.
• Experience of Checkpoint Harmony Orchestrator.
• Experience of Checkpoint 6600 appliances and clustered configurations.
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.
• Experience working with vendor technology partners such as:
• Citrix NetScaler.
• O365
• Azure
• Experience working with a Microsoft technology stack including AD-DS, DNS, DHCP and Server operating systems 2019.
• Automation / Scripting for Network Devices e.g. Meraki API.
• Enhanced Monitoring for Network Devices (PRTG/WUG).
• Skilled in Vendor/Supplier/Consultancy management.
• Versed in supplier service reviews.
• Architectural and design level certification in relevant technologies.

Budget- 15 lpa