Job vacancy - Network Engineer
Position: Network Engineer
Reference: acsEneen
Location: Crawley
Salary: £48,000 - £50,000 per annum
Job Title: Network Engineer
Our client is seeking a Network Engineer who has exceptional technical expertise and customer service skills, to take initiative and should be capable of working in a demanding, fast-paced environment. As a senior member of their IT Infrastructure team, the Network Engineer is expected to independently install, deploy and upgrade network equipment; design and implement network optimization projects; support business teams on joint-initiatives as a technical advisor or resource.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in major network initiatives, detailed network designs and deployments as well as coordinating technical issues with clients, vendors, and internal teams.
- Design, installation, maintenance and monitoring of network systems including switches, routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and switch and firewall-based policies.
- Responsible for expert-level troubleshooting of any problems relating to global networking issues.
- Adhere to IT access-management incident response and change control procedures (ITIL).
- Develop IT infrastructure project plan, technical specifications, design documents, roll-out and test plans.
- Contribute to IT policies and process development using industry best practices.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years IT experience with on-going skills development
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Willingness to travel.
- Vendor management; communicating with vendors globally.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills. Ability to rapidly identify and resolve issues under pressure
- CCNP certification preferred
- Strong experience with networking and routing protocols such as, BGP, OSPF, VRRP, VxLAN, HSRP, Vlan, EtherChannel's, FCoE, fiber channel, PoE, wireless protocols.
- Experience in (SD)WAN/LAN networking including routing, switching, security, load balancing (Citrix)
- Working knowledge of Enterprise Datacenter environment
- Recent knowledge of Cisco network equipment required, NAC, Cisco ISE, BYoD, Wireless controllers, Cisco Prime, UCS, Nexus 5K switches, Catalyst series, div Router series.
ACS are recruiting for a Network Engineer. If you feel that you have the skills and experience required in this advertisement to be a Network Engineer, please submit your CV including an outline of your experience as a Network Engineer. It is always a good idea to include a covering letter outlining your experience as a Network Engineer with your application as this will enhance your chances of selection and improve your prospects of landing the Network Engineer role you desire.