Network Engineer (3rd Line)
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| Job Type | Permanent Full Time |
| Location | Central London (Zone 1) |
| Area | London, England |
| Sector | Third Line Support |
| Salary | £60-70K + 15% pension + 10-15% bonus + healthcare + life assuran |
| Start Date | ASAP to 4 weeks |
| Advertiser | Danny Whelan |
| Job Ref | 75 |
| Job Views | 334 |
- Description
The Client
Our client is an industry leading Plc organisation based in the Central London who require an Network Engineer (3rd Line) join an existing team of highly proficient network & infrastructure engineers. Applicants will need to have the requisite communication skills demanded by a FTSE100 company.
The Role as Network Infrastructure Engineer (3rd Line)
The position as Network Infrastructure Engineer (3rd Line) entails working closely with the Network (70%) & Infrastructure (30%) engineering team to provide a conduit between the two recently merged departments. There is a broad range of works including trouble shooting, maintenance, back-ups, project work and BAU. The role requires an energetic, engaging, dynamic and passionate individual with an excellent attention to detail to work on the following;
Duties;
- Supports recovery of the infrastructure environment in the event of system failure or disaster
- Provides 2nd and 3rd line support to analyse, diagnose and resolve infrastructure issues
- Proactive fault finding, including the identification and elimination of single points of failure and security weak points
- Utilising, implementing and configuring appropriate monitoring solutions to proactively find and resolve issues before they become user impacting
- Work with other members of the infrastructure team to diagnose, analyse and resolve multi component infrastructure issues
- Ensuring that identified issues are being driven to resolution
- Engages in self-directed continuous improvement of the network infrastructure
- Investigates and follows both industry best practices and contributes to technical standards
- Documents configuration and standards
- Manage and liaise with 3rd parties to provide timely resolutions to support issues
Experience required for the role as Network Infrastructure Engineer (3rd Line)
- Understanding of networking and distributed computing concepts, TCP/IP V4 and V6, IP addressing/subnetting, LAN/WAN, DHCP, DNS, VPN, NAT, Routing, P2P circuits, BGP/OSPF, Switching and Firewalls, server virtualization, client/server applications, disaster recovery and business continuity
- Extensive knowledge of network security, threat detection and mitigation
- Extensive knowledge of implementation and support of Ethernet networks (Enterprise level) with firewalls, routers and switches from vendors including Cisco and Checkpoint.
- Extensive knowledge PKI, certificates and related authentication technologies (RADIUS, NPS etc.)
- Practical knowledge implementing security using VPN technologies including IPSec, SSL VPN, and encryption.
- Practical knowledge of On-Prem -> Azure and AWS connectivity including VPC and NSG
- Knowledge of Wifi technologies including WLAN controllers
- Working knowledge of tools including SIEM solutions, Solarwinds, PRTG, Cat Tools, syslog, SNMP, Visio Dark Trace and Wireshark
- Working knowledge of, and ability to support network products from a wide variety of vendors including Cisco and Checkpoint
