Network Engineer

Job Description

NETWORK ENGINEERAre you looking to join a company you can truly grow with that provides industry training, support for obtaining certifications, and clear career progression paths and opportunitiesOne of the clients we work most closely with, a legal firm in Leeds city centre that specialises in the financial and insurance sectors, is looking for a Network Engineer to support their infrastructure. They have a massive network and continuously growinginfrastructure, so this is a role that will offer you plenty to get stuck into and a good challenge.They have a top-notch infrastructure team, a friendly, supportive and trust-based environment, are truly passionate about retaining and rewarding talent, and provide training and ample opportunities for career progression, no matter what your ambitions are.Theyre all about sharing knowledge and experiences, and they always recognise everyones input and contributions.If you are passionate about your personal development, they will help you set up a plan to support this from the outset. They are also great at setting up frequent reviews to ensure you are staying on track and feeling that you are both adding value to thebusiness and getting what you need from your job.You will be responsible for ensuring the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of their network by monitoring, maintaining, supporting, optimising and improving the environment. This will include liaising closely with other teams to help identify,communicate, and resolve issues to ensure the smooth running of core operations, providing peer review and guidance for the teams changes and offering advice and guidance regarding the latest technologies to ensure the infrastructure is fit for purpose asthe business scales up.As such, they are looking for an outstanding communicator and a proactive problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset!What were offering:

• A salary of up to 45k
• A hybrid working arrangement - 2 days a week in the office to start with, going down to once a week if preferred once you know the tech, team and role well
• Access to industry-leading training and certifications
• Clear expectations and opportunities for development and career progression

Skillset required:

• Demonstrable experience in a similar network administration role
• Experience of implementing and managing Cisco switches and routers is a must-have
• A good understanding of networking technologies such as VPN, Cisco LAN, MPLS WAN, TCP/IP and FortiGate Firewall
• Experience managing enterprise firewall systems
• At least Layer 3 network knowledge
• Strong problem-solving, problem management and root cause analysis (RCA) skills
• Experience managing enterprise firewall systems
• Good working knowledge of device hardening frameworks such as CIS Benchmarking
• Experience of working to security standards such as ISO27001, PCI, NIST or CIS

Desirable skills/qualifications:

• A CCNA certification
• Data centre experience
• Kemp load balancers experience
• Working knowledge of virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V, VMware and AHV
• Experience of implementing and administrating system management tools such as the System Centre suite, SolarWinds Orion and PRTG
• Experience of MFA and NAC systems

Key responsibilities:

• Working closely with the other IT teams you will support the diagnoses and resolution of problems across the companys infrastructure
• Ensuring that all tasks and procedures are carried out effectively and efficiently to agreed levels of service or specific requirements of Service Level Agreements.
• Creating, updating and managing network documentation, ensuring that its accurate and complete
• Participating in reviews of systems performance, and providing advice and assisting specialists or other system and service providers to plan details of amendments and upgrades to systems
• Carrying out system upgrades and patching of key systems such as Cisco switches, firewalls and other networking equipment
• Ensuring systems are patched as per the patch schedule
• Ensuring that safety and security procedures are followed,
• Maximising network performance by monitoring performance and troubleshooting network problems and outages.
• Identifying and implementing solutions to improve infrastructure processes
• Providing out of hours support as part of the on-call rota (1 week in every 4 is the current schedule)
• Traveling to branch sites and data centres will be required on occasion (this is fully paid for)

Keyskills :
networks / network engineer / Cisco / firewall / switches / VPN / WAN / LAN