Expanding Tech Services Company seeking to recruit a Senior Network & Security Engineer to join their team. This is an ideal role for someone who wants to grow their network skills especially LAN/WAN and Security in addition Wireless and Voice. The role will involve predominantly project works but there will be aspects of BAU support required. The ideal candidate will a self-starter requiring minimal supervision and will be reporting directly to the Global IT Network Manager.

Responsibilities include:

• Active monitoring of networks, observing trends and identifying opportunities to improve network performance and stability.
• The day to day administration and support of appropriate network management tools and the regular reporting of network performance
• Responsible for day to day configuration management of the various network infrastructure components eg Switches and Firewalls, taking steps to secure configurations through appropriate backup
• Robust network administration typically Cisco
• Monitoring of and administration of network security
• Ensuring maximum uptime of networking services, implementing suitable monitoring, HA and remediation
• Involved in network LAN/WAN/Wireless/Security implementation and refresh

Key Skills, Experience and Requirements:

• Applicants must be able to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge in some/all the following technology areas from design, implementation and/or troubleshooting perspective:
  • Cisco Firewall technologies;
    • IPSEC/SSL VPN
    • NAT/PAT/DNAT/SNAT/Policy NAT etc
    • ASDM/CLI navigation for debugging and troubleshooting
    • HA/Cluster setup
    • Migrating legacy systems to NG FW’s.
  • Cisco ACS and ISE experience
    • NAC 802.1x /IDFW/RADIUS/TACACS
• Experience of Pulse/Juniper VPN appliances
• Experience of Network UTM and how they play a part in securing enterprise networks.
• Experience of IDS/IPS/SiEM
• Switching (VLAN, catalyst 2k/3k, stackwise, Etherchannel, QoS)
• Certification (current CCNA Security as a minimum, ideally CCNP Security with ongoing development)
• Experience of having working in a project environment and acted as project resource offering direction, expertise on networking and security principles
• Experience from having worked in a global environment is desirable
• International travel

Soft Skills:

• Documentation (Visio, whitepapers, reporting, updating info, presentation, knowledge share)
• Experience of stakeholder engagement and management at various levels and across cultures (internal/external customers, TAC, supplier)
• Character (approachable, flexible, self-starter, engaging, out of the box thinker)

• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies
• Strong Team player with flexible mind-set and can do' attitude
• Ability to plan out work load and take on responsibility for projects
• Assisting in escalation for major network related issues.

Desirable:

• Voice (SIP, PBX, SfB/Teams, Contact Centre, ISDN/PSTN, Polycom)
• Security (Fortinet appliances or configuration concepts, Cisco Umbrella, Sophos Endpoint UTM)
• Wireless (Cisco WLC, FlexConnect, NAC)
• Design (IP Addressing and subnetting, BoM list)
• Monitoring (SNMP, NetFlow, Syslog, PRTG/Solarwinds/NMS)
• Routing (OSPF/RIP, BGP/MPLS, VRF)

• Linux (Opensource technology)
• Dell/multivendor switching
• Infrastructure (VMWare/Hyper-V)
• Cloud Technology (AWS, Azure, DC hosting)
• SD-WAN
• SIEM
• Greenfield projects
• Network transition/transformation/integration
• International experience

If you are a proactive individual with excellent attention to detail, have a strong approach to work and  experience working in an enterprise environment then PLEASE APPLY NOW!