Network Engineer Team Leader

Network Engineering Team Leader – 5 Engineers (no shift)
London
£60,000 – £75,000 + great bens
Juniper, Cisco, Bluecoat, F5, TCP/IP, ITIL, NOC
Massive technical infrastructure, Broadcast, TV, Media, OTT, VoD, IP

I have been a successful and approved supplier to this client for over 6 years so, as you would expect, I know them well.
They are a global media powerhouse headquartered in London and are going through a fantastic round of expansion. This role truly offers some great technical challenges as well as a rewarding career opportunity.
You will be leading a team of 5 Network Engineer during (fairly) regular business hours. The team support a range of Brocade & Juniper Networks with the move towards the latter.

It is expected that around 60-70% of your time will be spent in a hands-on technical capacity on some of the larger and more challenging projects with 30-40% of your time in a leadership role also interfacing into the business and other heads of technical teams.

Yourself and the team typically spend around 50% of your time looking into new projects, designing and architecting new solutions and putting them into practice.

20-30% is spent working on planned changes such as VLAN, ACL etc. and the remaining 20-30% is spent re-actively solving issues.

It’s an exciting time as they are in the process of unifying at least 6 global hubs to create a single unified network encompassing strategy, policy and best practices and any great techie would want to get involved.

The hubs typically support some corporate and some Broadcast, TV, Media, IP, OTT traffic which is increasing steadily

The post holder should exhibit experience and skills in the majority of these areas:
• Hands on network experience in a large, structured, enterprise environment
• Good experience in and strong knowledge of a range of network and network security platforms, including:
o Juniper and Cisco Routing/Switching Platforms
o Juniper SSG/ISG/SRX firewalls
o Bluecoat Proxy SG and Proxy AV
o F5 Products including LTM / APM
• Good understanding of TCP/IP and networking technologies/protocols
• Experience of working in an ITIL controlled environment
• Proven track record of customer liaison and fault management with experience in a support and / or NOC environment
• Play a key part in the lifecycle of new client services, from design and development, through to implementation and on-going support
• Carry out issue investigation, troubleshooting and remediation, including root cause analysis
• Perform proactive reviews of the current architecture and configuration to ensure best security practices and standards are applied at all times
• Experience of working under pressure in a dynamic and fast moving technical environment
• Apply and enforce systems security processes, policies and tools as defined by the Head of Information Security, across the business to protect the integrity of systems and to ensure full compliance with corporate and legal requirements
• Highlight areas of concern, and ideas for improvement, when there is belief that systems or services could be impacted or improved
• Responsible for ensuring the live environment is available to the business and is not compromised by project developments or routine BAU changes
• Perform firmware/software upgrades to all deployed security technologies on a regular basis to ensure the most appropriate level of security and functionality is maintained at all times
• Advise, and support the Technical Support teams and business managers on security issues
• Implement and maintain security policies as defined by the Information Security Manager
• Assist in the development of current operational processes and documentation or creation if they currently don’t exist