Senior Network Engineer – Edinburgh (potentially remote). One of our Global clients is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join their Edinburgh office. If you are not located in Edinburgh or Glasgow, remote working will be considered.
Job Summary: You will bring your expertise with Cisco, Juniper, and next-generation firewall technologies (NGFW) to the position. You will manage the performance and availability of datacentre networks across the US and UK and participate in improvement projects. You will be part of a team tasked with maintaining a very level of availability and performance for datacentre services. You will also be a point of escalation for support incidents that affect multiple clients. Further, you will serve as a technical lead for internal and client projects, participating in client network builds.
Responsibilities:
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues quickly, proactively identify areas for improvement and recommend solutions.
- Support and maintain network backbone infrastructure involving multiple datacentres and geographic regions based on dynamic routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), and various mediums (DIA, PTP, VPN, multi-gig connectivity, cross-connects)
- Work independently to lead medium-sized client engagements involving equipment deployment, network design, or refresh tasks.
- Provide escalation support for incidents involving client offices, datacentres, public cloud networks (Azure and AWS), and remote access (VPN, Citrix, etc.).
- Support and maintain NGFW firewall configurations with the ability to troubleshoot datacentre and client environments.
- Work directly with high-profile clients to provide solutions that meet their needs, and account for critical dependencies to ensure seamless and effective resolution to problems.
- Collaboration with internal teams to provide solutions and escalation support.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for client infrastructure, processes, and procedures.
- Stay abreast of the latest technological trends and recommend solutions to improve performance, security, and efficiency.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to other team members to develop their skills.
Skills:
- Strong experience deploying and managing Juniper (SRX & EX) and Cisco (ISR, ASR, Nexus, and Catalyst) platforms, as well as network monitoring platforms.
- Strong experience supporting NGFW solutions from Palo Alto, FortiNet, and Cisco.
- A thorough understanding of the OSI network model, Ethernet, and TCP/IP networking concepts.
- Excellent LAN/WAN fault diagnostic and troubleshooting skills, including in-depth knowledge of Spanning Tree, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, BGP, OSPF, VPN, IPSEC, QoS, NATs and ACLs.
- Experience managing datacentre networks, preferrable in a multi-tenant MSP environment.
- Ability to maintain network performance, identify issues and recommend solutions.
- Experience with office network design, implementation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Expertise leading technical projects from start to finish, including gathering requirements, planning, execution and post-implementation review.
- Solid understanding of virtualization and network integration with VMware infrastructure.
- Experience maintaining network solutions based on Azure’s platform preferred.
Qualifications
- 8 + years of Networking experience CCNP, JNCIP or equivalent cert preferred
- Bachelor's degree and/or MSP experience a plus Flexibility for after-hours and weekend
- Ability to work on a call rotation Ability to work 8/8.30am - 5/5.30pm shift.
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