Network Administrator

Network Administrator
Established and respected hospitality client is recruiting for a Network Administrator responsible for operational health, and functions pertinent to industry standards for high volume and highly available business critical datacentres, applications and infrastructure. Client is located a few miles from Colne.

As Network Administrator responsibilities include:

– Responsible for networks infrastructure/devices and applications that maintains the operational integrity of systems/technologies located in datacentres on a 24×7 basis. Perform daily tasks within the scope of the role including but not limited to, health checks, routine maintenance, review patch/maintenance levels on operating systems and physical servers, update and create documentation and proactively support the infrastructure in production and non-production environments.
– Responsible to provide level 1 & 2 problem and incident response support for the enterprise production and non-production environments and for systems within the scope of the technical services infrastructure, which includes domestic and global infrastructure components/systems as applicable.
– Assist IT personnel in a consulting capacity in order to ensure issues resolution and project success and will be expected to provide accurate estimates and work diligently to meet project timelines. This includes assisting all team members (at any location including offshore).

Skills/Experience required:

– Experience in an mid-size to large environment
– Excellent and proven skills in networking technologies including but not limited to routers, switches, firewalls and security devices supporting a variety of protocols such as IP, SNA etc., and spanning multiple datacentres and geographic locations
– Skilled firewall administration in a HA setting
– Experience in the development, implementation and support of international network solutions.
– Experience building and deployment including assisting in design and project related deployments through non production and production environments
– Skilled at analyzing and troubleshooting, providing support of e-commerce systems and supporting data sources.
– Good working knowledge of Operating Systems Technologies
– Good working knowledge of Enterprise applications
– Working knowledge of local and wide area networks (LAN/WAN), telecommunications and data communications; standard operating systems, software packages, and software utilities; and documentation maintenance for local and distributed environment
– Experienced in the implementation of network & network related projects – including cabling, devices set up and service provider management.
– Excellent working knowledge of design & documentation of network solutions to specific standards and providing input to and up holding policies, procedures and processes related to secure network infrastructure using industry best practices.
– Maintains network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems; escalating problems to vendor

On offer is a basic up to 40k plus on call allowance/overtime, and a great range of benefits. Our client has a great work ethic and culture is committed to staff development and training.