Senior Network Engineer - Technology & Network Operations (Technology Infrastructure)

Al Jazeera Media Network ,
London, Greater London

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Description Position at Al Jazeera Media Network Summary: The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the AJMN's network infrastructure. Works in a fast paced highly collaborative team and deals to resolve network failures, security attacks and outages etc. They perform activities, such as remote support, configuration and maintenance of network/security solutions. Key Responsibilities: * Engineering, designing, configuring, installing, integrating, maintaining, and troubleshooting of enterprise LAN/WLAN/WAN networks and systems (enterprise converged networks, wired and wireless). * Network Security - Firewalls, Intrusion detection, incident response and escalation, security policy articulation and compliance checking. * Identify network trends and abnormalities and proactively take steps to prevent performance impacts to network traffic and business function. * Perform pro-active support functions and reporting to maintain the integrity of the enterprise network equipment and infrastructure. * Troubleshooting internal and external routing problems. * Assessment and optimization of the LAN/WLAN/WAN networks, through network monitoring, statistics, and daily health checks. * Maintains accurate and comprehensive documentation diagrams of Network Infrastructure. * Network performance evaluation, monitoring and optimization. * Systems and user support. Qualifications and Skills: * Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field. * Strong Cisco experience - CCNP * Experience in LAN/WAN and network Security * Experience with Cisco IP Telephony. * Experience with Wireless systems * Experience with network traffic analysis, QOS, VoIP and converged networks. * Intermediate experience in Layer 2 technologies. E.g. STP/RSTP/VSS * Intermediate experience in Layer 3 technologies, gateway load balancing protocols (VRRP/HSRP) and dynamic routing protocols (OSFP/BGP). * Knowledge of Quality of Service, IPSec, Multicast and load balancing. * Experienced in firewall design, implementation, and maintenance. * Strong problem-solving and logical analysis skills. * Strong documentation and/or technical writing skills. * Excellent communication skills. While not required experience of the following would be advantageous: * Palo Alto Networks Certification - ACE or CNSE. * Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining IPS. * Remote access VPN (IPsec, GRE, 3DES or AES VPN Tunnels). * Experience working in a 24x7 environment. * ITIL knowledge. Application Closing Date: 9th July 2020