Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer is sought by a world leading pioneer of Ethernet network, cloud and hosting solutions and services based in London.

As part of continued growth they’re looking for a Network expert to take charge of their backbone and customer platforms.

You can be based either in London or Manchester in this hybrid role with 2-3 days in the office depending on business needs.

Reporting to the Network Manager, you’ll be responsible for:

• Ensuring smooth running of computer facilities, manage installations, configurations and daily backbone maintenance
• Ensuring smooth running of LAN/MAN/WAN i.e. ensure support level 2 and 3 switches, routers, load balancing, cloud infrastructure
• Ensuring engineering in the IP and transport networks
• Providing support level 3 to the Network Operation Centre
• Managing peerings and load balancing between network links
• Providing technical support for physical deployments
• Designing, deploying and supporting network to meet internal and customer requirements

 
The successful Senior Network Engineer should have:

• The ideal candidate would have experience in core networking, transmission, MPLS, BGP, and security
• Knowledge of different types of fibre - DWDM, OTN
• Experience of L2 connectivity in a large scale environment
• Exposure to OSPF & BGP and MPLS services
• At least 5 years in a similar LAN/MAN/WAN network engineering role
• Routing protocols: MPLS, MPLS-TE, BGP, OSPF
• Security: Firewalls Juniper/Fortinet, IPsec, SSL
• Lan architecture: Vlan, STP, Gateway redundancy
• Control of network equipment and CISCO, BROCADE and Juniper is an advantage
• SNMP monitoring
• Good understanding of transport networks: WDM, SDH
• Knowledge of GNU/Linux
• CCIE Level but the certification itself is not mandatory
• Ability to work with a team composed of a large panel of skills is required
• Fluent French would be beneficial but not essential
• Willingness to travel to France for two weeks for induction training

 
Benefits Package:

• Up to £70,000 salary
• Performance based Bonus
• 25 days Annual leave - Jan to Dec
• Employer Pension contribution of 4%
• Performance based Bonus
• Healthcare
• Working hours 9am to 6pm from Monday to Friday

 
Senior Network Engineer
 
London / Manchester (hybrid)
 
To £70,000 + Benefits