Network Engineer - Meraki

Robert Half are currently working with an established local not-for-profit trust to recruit an Network Engineer on a permanent basis. The role is to be based on their Bristol site but the successful candidate will be in charge of their own diary flexibility to ensure the work is delivered.

The role:

The primary focus of this role is supporting the implementation of new high-avilability systems at one of the larger trust sites located in the north of Bristol. You would be the technical resource to install & configure the infrastructure which includes but not limited to Meraki switching and Meraki Wireless Access points. You will work alongside the IT project management office and also work alongside a third-party vendor who will provide technical resourcing to make sure everything is installed to high standards.

Job responsibilities:

• You'll spend most of your time on site fitting out new comms rooms at the Trust's north Bristol site which will include configuring a new Meraki network, switching, wireless access points, UPS's and environmental monitoring devices.
• Other duties outside of the project would include working alongside other members of the infrastructure team managing 60 servers, 210 Managed switches, 2 storage arrays and corporate backup solution (VEEAM), including fault diagnosis and resolution.
• Attending weekly project meetings to provide updates on the technical progress of the project.
• Working on more complex helpdesk queries escalated from the IT helpdesk via the JIRA helpdesk ticketing system.
• Reporting directly to the IT Infrastructure Manager, giving them regular updates on the status of the project and progress on resolving any issues.
• Implementing upgrades, enhancements and changes to the Trust's IT systems;
• Documenting project technical IT activities, allowing knowledge to be shared within the team;
• Participating in project meetings either in a facilitation or technical support capacity.

Experience/Qualifications:

• 3 years within a team managing a medium to large enterprise IT Infrastructure, with direct customer contact
• Regular exposure to Microsoft Hyper-V Clusters & Server support \ troubleshooting
• Hands-on building, installing and configuring Microsoft platform servers
• Hands-on building Aruba & Cisco enterprise grade fibre and ethernet networks.
• Experience as part of a project team for IT-based application rollouts
• Experience in an environment with regular exposure to corporate networking and security
• The ability to prioritise conflicting workloads
• Back end support of Microsoft applications up to 2022 (Windows Admin Center, Hyper V Manager)
• Networking technologies (TCP/IP, DHCP, LAN, WAN, Wireless)
• MS Operating Systems (Server 2016)
• Azure Active Directory
• MS Exchange 2016 Hybrid
• MS SQL Server 2012-16
• Cisco & Aruba Managed Switches
• HP Enterprise Hardware configuration
• IBM Enterprise Hardware configuration
• MS Hyper-V Clusters & Hosts
• SAN Storage Arrays
• Office 365 Admin Center tenant configuration
• Powershell
• On premise VOIP
  • Desirable: Experience with Cisco Meraki networks & MDM as you'll be configuring a brand new network from scratch
  • Experience with Linux ZFS file systems
  • Maintenance of Linux systems (apache, tomcat, zabbix)
  • Intrusion Detection Systems (Alienvault OSSIM)
  • Experience of working on High Availability / Life Critical Systems
• Full and valid UK driving license.

Salary/package:

• £40,000 - £43,000 basic salary
• Annual salary reviews and yearly pay rises in line with inflation
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Flexible/hybrid working on offer
• Access to on site gym & pool
• 7.5% matched pensions scheme
• free onsite parking

Interview process/timelines

• 2 stage Interview process - interviews to be conducted w/c 26th February
• 1st stage interview over Teams involving technical questions
• 2nd stage interview onsite

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