3rd Line Network Project Engineer

Dome Recruitment Limited ,
Maidstone, Kent
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum

Overview

AIM OF THE ROLE: The main role for this position is to deliver network connectivity projects, in line with industry best practices, to our customers, based on our UK wide national MPLS network and vCloud environment. The role demands a high degree of technical design and understanding of wide area networks, especially MPLS and Internet technologies. This will be a predominantly project customer facing role. There is also a requirement to work with the core network team to develop and continue to update standard customer solution templates and provide feedback for consideration into future core network architectural changes to keep us ahead of the market. This will be a customer facing role and will require you to work alongside pre-sales and sales teams providing validation for customer network connectivity solutions. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Duties will include, but are not restricted to the following – - Low Level Technical design of customer network connectivity solutions based on their requirements via sales and pre-sales teams. - Work with project managers and coordinators to prepare project initiation and system requirements documents for customer sign-off prior to project commencement. - Take full ownership and a proactive role in project delivery and ensure that project time scales are met. - Hands-on experience in configuring and troubleshooting various network technologies, especially routers, switches and firewalls. - Liaise with customer for any support calls or project meetings as required - Prepare technical hand-over documentation for the support teams and deliver any training if required to ensure the customer solution will be fully supported post project implementation. Qualifications: - 5-years technical experience in a service provider background, network project implementation role or similar. - CCNP level in one of more following areas; Routing and switching, Wireless, Data Centre or security. - Advanced knowledge of WAN and LAN technologies. - Able to work independently on projects and support issues. - Full understanding of TCP/IP protocol stack backed up by hands on experience working with IPv4 and IPv6. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89812382