Six Degrees Group
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London, Greater London
Network Engineer
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Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum |
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Overview
We are looking for Network Engineers with broad technical skill-sets across Juniper, Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinet products to join the team at Six Degrees and play a key role in the delivery of first class network related support and services for our clients. Six Degrees is a cloud-led managed service provider.We work as a collaborative technology partner to businesses making a digital transformation.We’re one of the few IT companies in the country who are able to manage a client’s entire IT estate, from WAN to LAN, from desk phones and printers to private and public cloud infrastructure, with security woven into everything we do. We have multiple roles here across a couple of different teams, and we’re looking for motivated, experienced and passionate Network Engineers to build and support the estates of our clients. These engineers will be hands-on with a wide variety of network technologies.In addition, they will work extensively on our data centre infrastructure, supporting and migrating the network that connects our customer LANs to their hosting and cloud resources. You will manage network device config, patches and firmware across the entire networking product set, including our new SD-WAN product offering. You will play a key role supporting clients in BAU work, change, break-fix, and installation of new services. You will also be an escalation point for other teams when required. The ideal candidate will also bring experience across a wide range of IT disciplines. Perhaps you will have working knowledge of Active Directory, or DNS servers, particularly with the way these services integrate with network devices. Or, perhaps you will have experience with AWS or Azure. The ability to easily adapt to advancing technology is imperative.Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and routing protocols is essential, as is the ability to proactively manage your own time amongst competing priorities. If you have a can-do attitude, and are willing not only to get stuck in when no documentation is available, but to create that documentation, and help bring our systems and processes up to a world-class standard, then in exchange we can offer you a rewarding job where you have the opportunity to upskill into almost any IT area you can think of To be considered for the role you will need a proven track record of commercial experience working as a Network Engineer or similar, ideally in a service provider environment.Technically, you will need to be able to demonstrate the following; · CCNP / JNCIP Routing and Switching qualification or similar experience at this level. · Proven experience with firewalls (Palo Alto / Cisco ASAs), Juniper/Cisco routers and switches, and network patching / racking of equipment. · Exposure to Fortigate SD-WAN technologies would be highly beneficial. · Exposure to managed wifi solutions, Cisco ISE (or similar), LAN switching, infrastructure environments (Active Directory) and config/patch management. · Knowledge of routing protocols including MPLS, OSPF and BGP. · Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, IPSEC, SSL VPNs and HSRP/VRRP. · Good knowledge of security principles and firewall techniques. This is not an exhaustive list, and we’re looking for someone with a genuine passion and enthusiasm for networking, who can bring a broad skill set to supplement our existing team.In addition to your technical skills, you’ll need the ability to use your initiative, strong communication and relationship building skills, and a desire to learn.If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you. This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89907871