Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Manchester
Description:
Key Responsibilities:
• Operational Support of Data Center / DMZ routing and switching environment
o Cisco Nexus / ACI, Arista CloudVision, VMware NSX, Netscout, and
Gigamon.
o Cisco Wired/Wireless LAN, Palo Alto CloudGenix (SD-WAN)
• Technical areas of focus include but are not limited to routing, switching, WAN,
LAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, MPLS, business to business connectivity, and public internet
• Identify service impact, interpret monitors, dashboards, and logs
• Work with senior team members to validate impacts and communicate to internal
stakeholders and leadership
• Lead production support triage efforts for network infrastructure incidents,
manage bridge line troubleshooting and appropriate team engagement, engage in
technical research and troubleshooting, and escalate to next level of leadership as
needed
• Provide status updates and technical detail for awareness communications, ensure
accuracy of all communications sent, and ensure any necessary follow-ups are
scheduled
• Identify possible production failure scenarios, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for
improvement, and take ownership of escalation
• Participate in the documentation of application flows, upstream/downstream
impacts during outages, the customer experience in failure scenarios, contacts for
various support needs and ensures appropriate documents and knowledge
management sites are up to date and available for use during triage
• Responsible for data quality and completion of incident tickets, including ensuring
all impacts are accurately recorded and documented in the system of record.
• Work ad-hoc reports and offline incidents at the direction of the senior team
members or leadership
• Promote and enforce production governance during triage/testing and fix efforts,
exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine
appropriate action.
• Adhere to design standards and global design authority processes and procedures3
• Assemble professional documents based on existing templates and ability to
provide accurate work descriptions with assumptions, and caveats.
Required Skills:
• Experience with Network technologies
o WiFi Technologies – Controllers, Access Points, Management Platforms,
Configuration Orchestrator, Tunneling protocols – SSL/TLS, IPSEC, GRE,
Network Resiliency – HA, local and regional failover, backups, WAN/MAN,
Routing, Switching, Firewalls, LAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, NAC, QoS, EIGRP,
BGP, OSPF, Multicast, NHRP, ATM, PPP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, ACL, VPN,
Building Wireless/Wi-Fi solutions (802.xx) and carrier “in-building” wireless
services (DAS), Radio Frequency
o Routing & Switching, Firewalls, LAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, NAC, QoS, EIGRP,
BGP, OSPF, Multicast, NHRP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, ACL, VPN
• Experience with troubleshooting complex networking problems
• Understand configuration management with tools such as Forward Networks and
HPNA
• Experience using (both proactive and reactive) advanced tooling such as Netscout,
Wireshark, Splunk, SevOne, HPNA, NNMI, OBM, IBM Watson, NSO, etc.
• General experience in Network Automation tools and processes
• Self-starter/self-directed, organised and detail oriented
• Strong technical acumen and analytical skills
• Excellent client interfacing skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work with all levels
of management
• Experience aligning actions to business impact and service restoral
• Demonstrates ownership
Desired Skills:
• Experience in Networking-related disciplines within a design, implementation, or
operations role
• Relevant Industry certifications in Network Technologies
• Cloud or SDN knowledge and experience
o Experience with SDN; Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Arista CloudVision
o Experience with SDWAN
• Experience with automation tools such as Python, Ansible, YAML or Django, API
calls (to ticketing systems and network devices), and frontend web development
• Experience of working within Financial Services (Insurance, Banking, Investment
banking)
• Experience with other network technologies
o WAN, MAN, LAN, Optical, Routing, Switching, Proxy/Threat Prevention, DDI,
Load Balancing, and AAA
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Agile framework & SCRUM ceremonies
Job Title: Network Data Engineer
Location: Manchester, UK
Rate/Salary: 300.00 - 350.00 GBP Daily
Job Type: Contract
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