Network Engineer

WHO DO WE NEED?
 

We are looking for someone with excellent organisation, communication and leadership skills who has:

• Strong knowledge and demonstrable experience of data centre and campus networking technologies: Cisco (routing, switching, firewalls), Palo Alto (Next Gen firewalls), F5 (global and local load balancing), encryption;

• Strong understanding of routing protocols (static and dynamic) in data centre, campus and wide area networks;

• Strong experience of operating high availability data centre networks supporting critical workloads on Windows, Linux and SAN including technical refresh of large numbers of devices;

• Strong experience of monitoring and management tooling including Solarwinds, FMC, Panorama;

• Have good general knowledge of Windows Server Environments, (including OS build, AD, DNS, DHCP and GPO) and Linux (RHEL) data centre server infrastructures;

• Have good general knowledge of Microsoft Stack technologies such as MS SQL, MS System Centre;

• Have excellent analysis and problem solving skills, taking ownership of complex incidents ensuring these are resolved to the satisfaction of the customer;

• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills;

• Knowledge and experience of working in Agile and or Scaled Agile delivery teams where secure by design is the approach to delivery.

Your Role and Responsibilities;

You will be responsible for:

• Providing network skills and produce low level solution designs as part of the delivery team

• Work with delivery teams to implement modern, highly available, scalable networks using a range of new and emerging technologies including automation

• Input into network management and acceptance aspects including setting standards and providing your technical expertise to Leidos programme teams

• Utilise the concepts and principles of verification and validation to deliver relevant network designs

• Collaborate with customers on all aspects of network management including the assurance and integration of infrastructure services to meet the needs of multiple lines of business

• Recognise and exploit business opportunities by leveraging architecture and design best practice

• Communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context.