Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

Must have proven and extensive SD-WAN experience

Location: Central London (4 days per week onsite / 1 day per week WFH)

Up to £75,000 PA

Senior Network Engineer sought by a well-known and public-facing organisation of circa 1200 IT end-users, with numerous sites spread across the county. The business is involved in significant, complex and critical logistical operations, providing services to hundreds-of-thousands.

As Senior Network Engineer, you will assume responsibility for the management of reasonably complex Local and Wide Area Networks, WiFi, VPN's and VoIP Telephony for the business.

You'll be part of a highly capable IT team of circa 20 supporting (in a hands-on capacity), complex IT Infrastructure and contributing to critical projects.

Responsibilities:

- Management and maintenance of all network hardware and equipment, establishing best practices for installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of network assets (hardware and software).

- Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures for administrating network resources.

- Provide detailed Network Asset Management, together with documentation relating to network configuration and hardware / software assets.

- Design and implementation of strategic plans to ensure network capacity meets both existing and future requirements.

- Management of suppliers and contractors to secure network products and services.

- Assist in development of BC / DR plans, responding to emergency network outages in accordance with those plans.

- Development and monitoring of KPIs and performance metrics relating to the network.

- Line management of a Network Engineer, providing guidance to the wider team where required.

Required Experience:

- Management, configuration and hands-on troubleshooting experience of enterprise LANs, WANs, WLANs and VPNs

- Extensive experience with both Cisco and HP switches / firewalls

- CCNA / CCNP, or equivalent practical experience

- Strong technical knowledge of both network and PC operating systems.

- Monitoring experience, ideally utilising SolarWinds and PTRG.

- Implementation of SD-WAN solutions ( Palo Alto or Meraki )

- Ideally you'll also have experience working with Checkpoint firewalls

Offering up to £75,000 PA plus excellent benefits, including free/subsidised travel on public transport and an industry leading pension scheme.

Location; Central London, with occasional travel a requirement. Due to the nature of the role, some out-of-hours work is expected.