Contract Type
: Permanent
Salary Package: £, plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: am – pm Monday – Friday Interview Process: -stage process
Why SCC?
1. An inclusive workplace
2. Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
3. Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
4. Career development and life-long learning opportunities
5. Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role purpose:
Provide network architecture across SCC Digital’s platforms and services and where required, customer environments.
Work closely with the sales function to support customer presales engagements and promote SCC networking products and services.
Key responsibilities:
6. Network architecture across all SCC Digital platforms and services, ensuring all designs adhere to SCC standards and follow the defined architecture governance process
7. Lead on the network design for the development of new SCC Digital products and services in-line with strategic business objectives
8. Help ensure all in-life platforms are fit-for-purpose, supportable and secure by evaluating existing architectures and supporting the network engineering function with planned maintenance and network improvements
9. Provide networking expertise for customer presales engagements across the SCC Digital portfolio to help drive the sales of products and services
10. Proactively work to identify operational efficiencies and cost-savings that can be realised through the network architecture; present recommendations to management with supporting justification and financial models
11. Contribute to the development of the network automation strategy across SCC Digital
12. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the networking engineering functions
13. Produce and maintain reference architectures with a view to increasing standardisation in the networking space across the organisation
14. Support operations by providing th line technical support and root-cause analysis for complex networking issues
Skills and experience:
15. Significant network design experience across routing, switching and security, with a deep understanding of the interfaces with adjacent technology stacks and services
16. Significant network implementation experience across Cisco Nexus, Catalyst and ISR/ASR platforms
17. Expert level knowledge of Cisco and/or Fortigate firewalls, including additional security features such as IPS/Content Filtering/Anti-Malware/Anti-DoS
18. Working knowledge of Cisco ACI
19. Strong network documentation skills with proven experience of writing network HLD / LLD, supporting documents and network schematics
20. Experience supporting presales activities with contribution to RFI/RFP response, BoM and SoW
21. Experience of acting as technical lead on complex, large scale network deployments
22. SD-WAN skills with Meraki and/or Fortigate products are advantageous, or a willingness to upskill in this area as required
23. Network automation skills with tools such as Ansible and Terraform are advantageous, or a willingness to upskill in this area as required
24. Public cloud networking skills are advantageous, or a willingness to upskill in this area as required
25. Confident presenter to internal and external stakeholders
26. Resilient and able to handle pressure and challenging situations
27. Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
28. Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, particularly with the operations functions, with the ability to build positive relationships
About You