Job Description
Senior Network Engineer
Greater Manchester – M44 - Hybrid working available
Permanent
One of our key clients has an urgent requirement for a Senior Network Engineer to be based at their offices in either Greater Manchester on a permanent basis (Hybrid Working available). This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly growing business who are making a huge impact in their sector.
Employee benefits:
* pension – employer 6%, employee 3%
* days holiday entitlement, plus the 8 bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday
* Bonus
* working/flexible working
* Private Medical Insurance
* Cash Plan and Wellbeing Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
* and Recognition Gateway
* Christmas closure between Christmas and New Year
* Company Events
As Senior Network Engineer you will be expected to take ownership of the design and implementation of network solutions required by the business, while working to strict deadlines and being flexible to changing business requirements. The role also involves providing 3rd line support for diagnostics and resolution of network incidents, vendor and supplier engagement and mentoring of mid-level and graduate network engineers.
This is a great opportunity to manage the delivery of multiple projects at the same time to achieve agreed timescales. You will engage and manage relationships with 3rd parties such as vendors, suppliers, and strategic technical partners.
My client would be keen to speak to candidates with the following expertise:
Relevant experience
* Minimum 6 years' experience working for an ISP across a service lifecycle - Design, Build, Automate, Operation.
* Network design workflow experience and HLD/LLD documentation.
* Development of QoS-enabled solutions using concepts such as traffic classification, marking, queuing & scheduling, policing, and H-QoS.
* Advanced knowledge of L2/L3 routing and switching protocols such as BGP, OSPF, ISIS, STP, Q-in-Q, storm control, etc.
* Experience with NMS and metrics collection servers such as LibreNMS, Grafana, SolarWinds, PRTG, etc.
* Familiarity with security solutions e.g., Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls, and IPS/IDS etc.
* Experience with passive optical network technologies (GPON/XPS-PON)
* Knowledge of MPLS technologies such as L2/L3 VPNs, RSVP, LDP, etc.
* Network automation using Python, Ansible and related libraries.
* Experience with virtualisation concepts and solutions e.g., VMWare ESXi, Proxmox VE server, and Proxmox Backup server, RAID types, etc.
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