Contract - Network Engineer - Cisco ACI & Meraki

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct yourself as a seasoned technical professional.
• ENS stakeholder, delivering regional One team’ approach.
• Responsible for operation excellence and taking appropriate ownership
• Participate in and adhere to ENS engineering.
• Ensure delivered solutions transition into ‘supportable services’ via the ready for service framework.
• Mentor and cross train ENS staff as required.

Your skills and experience:

• At least 8 years financial services experience
• Expertise in Networking Domain as an SME.
• Excellent understanding of network architecture, design and support (related to the specified technologies)
• Proven delivery experience is essential, preferably with a financial services company
• Proven Service Management (ITIL) experience, specifically incident, problem and change management
• Delivering service within a high pressure environment

Essential skills:

• Diligent, thorough and professional
• Service Oriented, business aware and customer focused
• Motivated, with a positive (can-do) and enthusiastic attitude
• Good organisational and planning skills, with attention to detail
• Good documentation skills, including writing policies and procedures
• Confident, influential and able to communicate effectively at all levels
• Experience of supporting network technologies
• Fundamental understanding of TCP/IP and network switching & routing
• Understanding of network requirements, able to identify/discuss viable solutions
• Cisco routing and switching including datacentre platforms
• Knowledge of monitoring and analysis tools (SolarWinds, ThousandEyes, Wireshark, etc)
• Knowledge of DNS & DHCP (IPAM)
• Ability to cope with demanding schedules and pressured deadlines
• Must be flexible in approach to work content and responsibilities
• Must be a self-starter and able to work with a minimum of supervision
• Must be able to interact with customers (the business) and technicians effectively

Desirable skills:

• Cisco ACI, Meraki, ISE
• SD-WAN Technologies, Preferably Silver Peak
• Terraform, automation and Python Scripting
• Professional qualifications (against relevant technologies)
• Project Management qualifications and experience Standard, also the ISO20000 and ISO27001 standards
• Experience in Automation and Software defined approach is preferred.