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    Network Engineer (contract)

    Up to £550 per day
     

    Job Description

    Network Engineer

    A Financial Services company based in London is seeking a Network Engineer to work across a portfolio of networking projects, to provide SME experience through knowledge sharing, and to contribute to delivering high and low level designs. This position is part of the projects team and will focus on project work along with 3rd line escalation duties.

    You will be:

    • Responsible for delivering several networking projects which will span across all network infrastructure and will include technologies such as Cisco and Arista switches/routers, Cisco ASA, Fortinet, and Checkpoint firewalls, and F5 and A10 load balancers.
    • Upgrade, configure, and implement firewalls
    • Deliver high and low level designs
    • Collaborate across teams to ensure that projects are meeting deliverables
    • Contribute to technology strategy and infrastructure product roadmaps.
    • Be able to serve part of the 3rd line escalation team to resolve complex implementation or other technical issues.
    • Ensure suitable contribution to major incident recovery processes.

    You will have:

    • Cisco certified to CCNP/CCIE level with relevant commercial experience
    • Experience working with the following Network protocols: BGP, OSPF, STP, vPC, Port-Channels, IP, DHCP, DNS, HSRP, VRF, Multicast, VPN, VXLAN, NAT, ACLs, MPLS, VDCs, PTP
    • Strong experience in supporting and configuring Network Firewalls (Cisco ASA, Check Point, Fortinet).
    • Experience in supporting and configuring Load Balancers such as A10 and F5.
    • Experience in supporting and configuring Packet Capture tools, such as Wireshark and Riverbed.
    • Understanding of technologies such as Cisco Wireless / DNA-C / ISE / DCNM, Arista, CloudVision, Cloud technologies, Ansible/Python for Network automation
    • Understanding on network monitoring, ideally with SolarWinds
    • Knowledge of ITILv3 methodologies

    This is a contract position based in London with a hybrid setup of 3 days per week in the office.

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