Network Engineer

Job Title: Network and Firewall Specialist

Contract Length: 12 month

Location: Aldermaston, UK- 100% ONSITE

• May be some expensed travel to remote sites but would always try to use perm staff for this first.

• Willingness to work flexibly and to occasionally work evenings and weekends where exceptional circumstances require it.

• Travel to remote sites when required which may involve overnight stays.

• Part of on call rota.

TOP 3 REQUIREMENTS

• Juniper

• Experience installing Switches and Firewalls

• Technical background

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Reviewing, on a daily basis, the status of a various networks, logging incidents where appropriate.

• Escalating, in advance, to the Network Manager any likely breaches of agreed deadlines.

• Working with customers, project leads, 3rd parties and other stakeholders to discuss technical service issues assisting with the resolution of said issues.

• Creation of LLD’s for projects if required.

• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge on network technologies.

• Working to assist with capacity & availability management of various networks.

• Problem Solving: investigate and resolve problems for services within their own area of responsibility.

• Provisioning network services and devices where appropriate.

Essential:

• Strong understanding of network fundamentals and troubleshooting processes.

• Experience working with Juniper Virtual Chassis and Clustering technology.

o Juniper most essential.

• Experience with configuring/troubleshooting EVPN/VXLAN on Juniper equipment.

• Experience of configuring GRE tunnels and Routing Instances/VRFs.

• Experience of PKI / certificate generation and renewal.

• Networking: strong routing skills (OSPF, BGP), firewall configuration, WAN/LAN design, device clustering, high availability.

• Juniper Technologies: EX, QFX, switch configuration, SRX, vSRX firewall and policy config, Junos Space, Security Director, Apstra.

• Security Platforms: FortiGate, F5 BIG-IP (Load Balancing / AWAF), Pulse Secure / Ivanti, high-grade encryption.

• Identity & Access Management: Cisco Client (full lifecycle), Windows NPS (RADIUS / 802.1X).

• Monitoring & Observability: SolarWinds, Splunk.

• Core Network Services: IPAM, DHCP, DNS.

• Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Juniper and Cisco certification but experience is more important.

• Data Centre experience advantageous.

• Extreme Switch knowledge desirable.