Senior Network Engineer

Post title: Senior Network Engineer

Salary: £76,000 per annum

Location: Hybrid (2 days a week on site in London)

Benefits: large annual leave entitlement, 24% pension contribution scheme and many more

Our client is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to take lead on the design, implementation, Maintenance of the networking technology that underpins their on premise and cloud infrastructure, its communications and cyber security.

SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Assist and lead the networks workstream on projects and programmes to ensure that the network topology complies with the agreed standards
2. Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to ensure systems are practically designed
3. Provide guidance and make recommendations to colleagues ensuring that service design and transition plans can be supported by network topologies
4. Develop a clear view of the organisations cyber risk exposure, providing meaningful risk advice and mitigation's, reports to stakeholders
5. Ensure the security of the organisations network infrastructure including managing firewalls, using vulnerability scanning, port monitoring tools and resolving security related incidents.
6. Lead the design, implementation, testing and maintenance of WAN and LAN network solutions
7. Manage remote access and VPN solutions and switching technologies - including Cisco Nexus & Catalyst 9500, 9300 and 3850 series switches
8. Ensure adherence to industry best practice for instance ITIL, and relevant guidance from pan-government sources like NCSC and commercial sources like Cisco, CheckPoint, Palo Alto

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

1. Experience with designing and implementing infrastructure technologies, solutions and services such as networking, physical infrastructure, software, COTS and open-source packages
2. Cloud computing including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Core network skills to include, routing (IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, VRF's etc), switching (VLANS, Stacking, etc.)
3. Knowledge of moderate to complex service integration, particularly experience of integration with Azure & AWS related networking and typical DMZ architectures
4. Experience of designing secure systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity
5. Substantial experience in designing, deploying, and managing of Cisco Wireless / LAN networks, Cisco DNA Centre/SD-Access networks, Cisco ISE.
6. Deep understanding of the technical concepts required in the role including LAN, WAN, WiFi, data-centre networks, unified comms SIEM and IPS/IDS technologies and toolset used for vulnerability scanning including Nessus