Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Ideally looking for an experienced and professional Network Engineer with ideally experience Cloud. Candidates need to be CCNA or CCNP certified and must know about infrastructure and how it fits together in a SME.

Purpose / overview of position

This role requires a solid Infrastructure background, particularly networking, voice and storage. Responsibility for developing and implementing key strategies and plans concerning Network (WAN / LAN / WLAN / Voice) Data Storage, Cloud Services, and security. Innovation is the key as we take a more agile consumer based approach to traditional IT. Leading implementations and supporting the departmental planning process and advising on industry best practice

Key job responsibilities

Responsibility for the design, installation, monitoring and maintenance of the network, storage and backup ecosystem, data centres and recovery locations.
Providing company with the correct levels of security and resilience
Direct responsibility for the disaster recovery policies and procedures, as well as ensuring that the appropriate test regimes are planned and executed
Provide technical roadmaps as we implement next generation technologies
Planning, testing and implementation of changes in line with Change Management processes
Define networking requirements for supported services, identifying any bottlenecks and implementing solutions

Specific requirements / skills

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
5+ years experience working in an IT department supporting network and voice infrastructures
Vendor training and certification (Cisco / Avaya / EMC)
Experience working on Nortel/Avaya network platforms (ERS 8800, 4800, 5500) beneficial
Experience working on Nortel/Avaya voice platforms (CS1000, Call pilot, Contact Centre, Call Recorder (WFO)
Experience working with Wireless technologies (Aerohive preferred)
Experience working with Cloud Platforms such as Amazon Web Services
Experience of cloud based telephony
Experience working with next generation Firewall products (Palo Alto beneficial)
Strong understanding of all IT security standards and products
Experience knowledge of SAN / NAS / FC Switches, Cloud backup
Experienced in maintaining and troubleshooting large mission critical installations
In depth experience and understanding of Storage Architecture and SAN design especially with large scale implementation experience
Good understanding of next generation storage concepts (STaaS, JBOD, Flash, SDS, AWS)
Good understanding of Backup/ recovery concepts (SSO/ Vaulting/ DB Agents/ Staging/ other basic backup concepts) and infrastructure
Familiarity with most system administration command/ tools on Unix and Windows for system performance, network and backup issues
Should be able to architect solutions on above platforms
Experience of EMC hardware / management solutions, especially Clariion / VNX
Ability to manage incidents through to resolution
Strong analytical and problem solving abilities
Initiative to seek information in unstructured and undocumented environment
Desire to follow processes with little formal control
Attention to detail and meticulous planning
Broad technical understanding covering enduser computing and mobile devices, physical and virtual server platforms and management software & services.

Key Competencies

Collaborative

Shows sensitivity and respect for others’ feelings, cultures and beliefs, showing respect for diversity.
Makes a positive contribution to the team, supporting colleagues in their day today work.
Establishes constructive and collaborative relationships with immediate colleagues.
Passes on information promptly, keeping colleagues up to date.
Handles disagreements as they occur, seeking a constructive solution.

Courage to Challenge

Stands by own proposals in the face of difficult questions, providing supporting evidence.
Explores and takes into account the full range of viewpoints.
Adapts a questioning approach to clarify or more fully understand an issue.
Helps to uncover pertinent facts to move a debate forward.
Consults others for ideas, advice and direction when facing unusual problems.

Curious

Interested in finding out about the organisation and the connections between wider organisational issues and their own role.
Inquisitive about current issues and developments within the HR community and how they impact on current practice.
Extends understanding to underlying issues and causes.
Open to trying new ideas and takes on board change.
Reflects, analyses and tests ideas and insights with others.

Decisive Thinker

Assesses the value of information and data before applying it to a decision.
Ensures details and facts are correct, complete and consistent, ensuring that conclusions drawn from the information are built on solid foundations.
Use previous experience, standard procedures and common sense to make decisions.
Accurately collects and interprets relevant data in order to support organisation decision-making and delivery of task.
Is able to use common sense and knowledge to solve problems.

Driven to Deliver

Demonstrates a consistently strong bias for action and a desire to deliver.
Identifies the steps to achieve agreed tasks, goals and objectives in the immediate or short term.
Focuses own activity on the agreed priorities getting things done efficiently and effectively.
Keeps track of own progress, completing work to deadlines or informing others when targets cannot be met.
Consistently delivers to expectations and commitments, meeting or exceeding agreed standards.