Senior System Engineer (Remote)

Senior System Engineer – home-based - £50k - £60k + excellent benefits

Our client is an extremely well established and successful IT company; due to continued growth and expansion they are now growing their team and looking to recruit an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to work on a remote basis.  

The System Engineering Group members are expected to possess strong networking experience to enable the design of our clients product, which is heavily dependent on network prerequisites. This requires exceptional communication skills, the ability to talk to stakeholders at multiple levels, systems analysis skills, project management familiarity, and an independent drive to gain knowledge and become a product expert. You have a strong interest in using technology to solve specific problems and enjoy seeing something that you and your team deliver exceed customer expectations.

You must have access to your own vehicle for this role.

Technical Competencies:

• Practical and applied Linux experience, ideally with CentOS and RedHat
• Practical and applied experience with common network equipment, ideally Cisco, Juniper
• Practical knowledge of large-scale IP based networks and associated protocols (MPLS, BGP, ICAP, OSPF, etc.)
• Practical and applied experience with common scripting languages such as Shell Scripts, PHP, Perl, Python, etc.
• Practical and applied experience with proxy-based network solutions (explicit, transparent)
• Practical and applied experience within Enterprise/Education networks (routing/switching, Active Directory, security, proxies)
• Practical experience with telecom service provider networks (routing, OSS/BSS, AAA, LDAP, Radius)
• Practical experience performing root causes analysis in software and networks

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

35% Solution Architecture

• Designing solutions for unique customer requirements
• Planning for solution scalability, redundancy, and resiliency
• Ensuring design meets customer requirements

35% System Integration / Deployment

• Hand’s-on deployment of our clients solutions at customer premises
• Planning deployment effort to ensure smooth implementation
• Collaboration with customer technical teams

15% Pre-sales / Sales Support

• Visiting customer sites with our clients business development team
• Advocating our clients technology to facilitate market proliferation
• Being the subject matter expert in the region

15% Customer Visits

• Troubleshooting issues that arise during the delivery phase
• Facilitating knowledge transfer to our clients customers
• Maintaining a healthy relationship between our client and their customers

Sales/Systems Engineering Competencies:

• Practical experience in the design and implementation of large, scalable network systems
• Practical and proven knowledge of applying network scalability, redundancy, and resiliency for mission critical systems
• Practical experience with the creation and management of solution designs
• Practical experience with the planning and delivery of solution designs
• Direct involvement with pre-sales and post-sales support
• Experience with supporting RFPs/Tenders

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