Senior Network Engineer is sought to join the Global Network team within prestigious financial services organisation based in the City of London. You will be skilled in all areas of networking with strong capabilities in detailing requirements to the outsourced teams and also a hands-on collaborative approach to complete changes and projects in a timely manner. Being able to validate implementations throughout all stages of deployment to confirm they are correct will be essential.
Involvement in Global projects, either as the project lead or member of the project team from initiation to completion which may require travel to other offices and locations periodically.
Key responsibilities:
Be the local network lead for their 6 London offices.
Be the local network contact for the London Applications team and work with them on all network related business application issues and requests.
Form a strong working relationship with other key infrastructure teams including hosting, storage, compute, security and end user services.
Be able to identify and bring structure to ambiguous situations and problems.
Work closely with the Global Network Team to jointly manage the IT outsourcers.
An adaptable approach to change between fault diagnosis, projects and enhancements and striving to simplify the infrastructure, at all times.
Be a key network team contact for all offices globally in order to assist with all aspects of the Network infrastructure.
Technically test and validate new services, improvements and upgrades so they are secure and ready for production use.
Create and maintain both technical and process documentation.
Key Requirements:
Strong background in Cisco routing, Cisco switching, Cisco Data Centre Switching and routing, Cisco wireless networks and Fortigate Firewalling.
Hands on experience with Cisco Catalyst 9000 series, Cisco Nexus 9k and Fortigate physical and virtual Firewalls with the capability of setting up a greenfield site.
Knowledge and skills in the following areas would be advantageous: Microsoft Azure networking, F5, NSX-T and DFW/Tiered gateways, Infoblox IPAM and DHCP, Solarwinds NPM, SDWAN and Proxy technologies experience both onsite and cloud Proxy Zscaler or Netskope
5+ years of end-to-end hands-on Network Management experience.
Proven experience of successfully shaping and executing control and audit remediation programmes of work.
Exposure to, and understanding of IT Infrastructure and Applications
Experience of owning and delivering projects.
Please note, you will be joining an organisation who offer excellent career prospects as well as an excellent total comp package and have their employees wellbeing at the heart of what they do. For a full consultation please contact Arc IT.
