Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

• 5-7 years’ experience, minimum CCNP or equivalent
• A network engineering technology generalist : background covering routing / switching/ firewalls / wireless LAN
• Mandatory Technology: Cisco LAN + WLAN. Other vendors such as juniper nice to have.
• Palo Alto firewalls preferred, Fortinet and Cisco useful
• Experience in campus networking mandatory
• Complex enterprise locations: industrial, medical or any secure network such as defence or banking.
• Segmented LAN and WLAN large 2 or 3 tier campus switching environment on-premises services infrastructure (DHCP, DNS).
• Enterprise large campus physical layer – IDF, MDF, structured cabling, SPFs, inter and intra-building fiber, rack layouts and power distribution, path panels.
• Used to working with a pre-sales or Consultancy mindset and experience able to go into an previously unknown site or customer network , work in discovery mode to learn the current network structure
• Assess physical as well logical networking state and issues (therefore onsite required for a small period at least)
• Capture / understand / analyses / document requirements and options before going into solution mode.
• Able to think for themselves when encountering unknowns.
• Hands-on (CLI, GUI, etc.) work to be expected
• Starting from a reference target design (which will be provided by FDT LAN network lead), come up with the high and low level design and step-by-step plan needed to migrate from the current situation to the target.
• If design shows that new equipment is needed to meet target: prepare BOM and liaise with customer procurement to prepare technically accurate PO (commercials out of scope for this role). BOM to include any physical layer requirements as well e.g. additional cabling.
• be the technical lead the actual migration at customer site (scope of the migration change will vary site to site). On site, presence could be required for this. Post migration hypercare, document and hand over to network operations team.
• Following skills could be an advantage:
• Automation experience could be an advantage
• Experience with Catalyst Center, Netbrain could be an advantage
• experience of service provider SDWAN as a customer nice to have but not a big deal if not
• Barracuda firewalls nice to have for one of the projects but not needed for others.