Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.

Opticore IT are currently searching for Network Operations Engineer to join the Network Operations team on a Permanent or Contract InsideIR35 basis.

Our clients' Network Operations team is responsible for their global network and network infrastructure covering office/datacentre/colocation sites, ensuring the company can operate to the best it can. You will be vital for allowing the team to continue providing our high standard of service to the business. We are always working hard to improve and are looking for the best team members to learn from and to bring in new ideas.

What you'll be doing:

• Monitoring the health of the network and security infrastructure using monitoring and analysis tools
• Reacting to alerts and providing resolution or initial troubleshooting
• Investigate hardware/software problems and work with the manufacturers' support teams to resolve
• Reporting and troubleshooting network connectivity to third parties
• Reporting and troubleshooting WAN connectivity outages and issues with our partners
• Completing Level 1 support tickets
• Completing network audits to ensure compliance to standards

What you'll bring:

• Previous usage of Grafana dashboards. Ideally, Victoria metrics, or at least Prometheus
• CCNP Level understanding of Routing and Switching protocols
• Understanding of BGP troubleshooting
• Previous exposure to DC Technologies, such as VXLAN
• High level of organisation and motivation
• Willingness to learn with a positive can-do attitude
• A love of efficiency and routine

What you’ll gain:

Here at OpticoreIT we believe in investing in our team as we understand that we are only as great as our engineers, so learning and development is a big deal for us. Whether you’re going for a CCNP, CCIE, Hashicorp, Python, Cloud Technology or anything in between OpticoreIT has your back with all our training, labs, courses, and shared knowledge and the most important part it’s all free! On top of that, we also give you:

• Competitive Salary & discretionary bonus
• 23 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private healthcare & dental
• Pension
• EV car, workplace nursery, tech, and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes
• Team & Company Social events
• EMI share scheme

Diversity:

At Opticore IT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.