Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer
Salary national £60,000
London £70,000
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Network Engineer to be a part of our innovative Global Network Operations team. This is truly an incredible time to join us, we are currently implementing large scale changes that will provide you with the opportunity to develop your skills and utilise your capabilities.
If you have experience of both architecture and operations, focussed on driving technology evolution and maintaining operational excellence, OR a Senior Network Engineer with an interest to embark in service ownership direction, we would love to hear from you!
A bit about the job:
As a Senior Network Engineer, you will be accountable for maximising the value network technologies including, end to end enterprise connectivity and automation (across various hosting and cloud environments). Identifying technical options and their advantages and disadvantages and comfortable with presenting to a less technical audience, along with providing technical leadership in large and small project engagements.
Collaborating with internal stakeholders to define requirements and objectives is a key requirement, to ensure that technology operations meet these requirements, work with business units to identify and implement processes and automation to drive operational efficiencies and resolve any outstanding operational issues caused by technology.
Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Deep technical understanding and design experience in several of the following areas are essential: CISCO routing and switching, Wireless Networking, Routing (BGP, OSPF etc), SDWAN (Overlay and Underlay), SASE / SSE, LAN Switching and SASE are desirable
  
• Broad vision of industry standards, recent technologies, and key market trends
  
• Experience in Network Automation including tools and common scripting languages (e.g., Python)
  
• Great understanding of packet level traffic analysis using tools such as Wireshark
  
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders and able to naturally collaborate across teams to deliver successful outcomes
  

What you'll get for this role:
Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary national £60,000 and London £70,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
  
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's.
  
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
  
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
  
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
  
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
  
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave
  
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
  
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
  
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
  

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Aviva is for everyone:
We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
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We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working -spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
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