Network Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Gazelle Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Network Administrator role involves supporting and maintaining a mission-critical network environment, requiring hands-on engineering skills in complex settings. The position demands a proactive approach to ensure high availability and minimal downtime. The successful candidate will engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders while coordinating with third-party vendors. Strong troubleshooting and documentation skills are essential for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administration, monitoring and support of enterprise network infrastructure
- Support of a wider network environment operating at high availability
- Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve network and connectivity issues across the IT landscape
- Produce and maintain technical documentation for existing environments and new network builds or configurations
- Gather technical and business requirements directly from internal and external customers
- Coordinate with third party vendors including cabling partners, ISPs and hardware suppliers
- Support network changes, upgrades and incident resolution in line with agreed processes
Key Skills:
- Proven experience in network administration and support
- Strong troubleshooting capability across complex network environments
- Experience working in mission critical or highly available environments
- Solid understanding of LAN, WAN, routing, switching and network security fundamentals
- Comfortable producing clear and accurate technical documentation
- Experience working with external vendors and service providers
- Strong communication skills and the ability to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are seeking a Network Administrator to support and maintain a mission critical, highly available network environment. This role sits at the heart of the wider IT landscape and requires a hands on engineer who is comfortable operating in complex, business-critical environments where downtime is not an option.
Key Responsibilities
- Administration, monitoring and support of enterprise network infrastructure
- Support of a wider network environment operating at high availability
- Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve network and connectivity issues across the IT landscape
- Produce and maintain technical documentation for existing environments and new network builds or configurations
- Gather technical and business requirements directly from internal and external customers
- Coordinate with third party vendors including cabling partners, ISPs and hardware suppliers
- Support network changes, upgrades and incident resolution in line with agreed processes
Skills and Experience
- Proven experience in network administration and support
- Strong troubleshooting capability across complex network environments
- Experience working in mission critical or highly available environments
- Solid understanding of LAN, WAN, routing, switching and network security fundamentals
- Comfortable producing clear and accurate technical documentation
- Experience working with external vendors and service providers
- Strong communication skills and the ability to engage with technical and non technical stakeholders