Network Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by 1768517657
£469 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland
Summary: The Network Engineer role at Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organization in Edinburgh, involves supporting various network projects and infrastructure, primarily through remote work with occasional on-site requirements. The position is for an initial 6-month contract, with a focus on optimizing network performance and ensuring disaster recovery objectives are met. Candidates should possess extensive experience with Palo Alto and Cisco technologies, along with strong routing and switching skills. The role offers a competitive daily rate of £469, classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support data centre, Campus network, and Wi-Fi refresh projects
- Support for existing network infrastructure
- Optimisation of existing and new network infrastructure
- Network consultancy and support for other teams and projects
- Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving towards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero
Key Skills:
- Extensive and demonstrable experience working with Palo Alto technologies inclusive of content filtering and network security
- Substantial experience with Cisco, Juniper technologies
- Extensive routing & switching experience (OSPF, BGP)
- Common design topologies for layer 2 & 3 services
- NSX/Palo Alto Firewall administration
- Experience with Nexus product line
- Strong knowledge of OSPF design together with performance tuning
- Strong knowledge of BGP design and operational management
- Expertise with data centre management and best practices Requirement for network engineering services
- Knowledge and experience of Agile working, including such disciplines as Kanban, feedback, retrospectives, VFQ
- Risk aware, focused on risk reduction and mitigation
- Strong attention to detail
- Effective team working and technical decision making
- Quality focused, due care and attention taken to ensure solutions and platform meet their quality criteria and the team standards set
- Experience of designing and leading infrastructure projects
- Creativity - taking new approaches to tackle problems; embracing innovation and sharing knowledge with a range of sources and stakeholders
- Certified to at least CCNP
- Experience designing & configuring multi-datacentre fabrics
- Experience with deployment and fine-tuning of IPAM/Monitoring solutions such as Netbox/LibreNMS/Kentick
- Certified Across: Arista (ACE), CCNP/CCIE, PCNSE
Salary (Rate): £469 per day
City: Edinburgh
Country: Scotland
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Network Engineer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £469/day (Outside IR35). This role will be mainly remote working, except where access to physical hardware is required, which will be on-site in Edinburgh.
Responsibilities:
- Support data centre, Campus network, and Wi-Fi refresh projects
- Support for existing network infrastructure
- Optimisation of existing and new network infrastructure
- Network consultancy and support for other teams and projects
- Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving towards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero. This will be assured at 6 weekend points over the course of a FY year.
Essential Skills:
- Extensive and demonstratable experience working with Palo Alto technologies inclusive of content filtering and network security
- Substantial experience with Cisco, Juniper technologies
- Extensive routing & switching experience (OSPF, BGP)
- Common design topologies for layer 2 & 3 services
- NSX/Palo Alto Firewall administration
- Experience with Nexus product line
- Strong knowledge of OSPF design together with performance tuning
- Strong knowledge of BGP design and operational management
- Expertise with data centre management and best practices Requirement for network engineering services
- Knowledge and experience of Agile working, including such disciplines as Kanban, feedback, retrospectives, VFQ.
- Risk aware, focused on risk reduction and mitigation
- Strong attention to detail
- Effective team working and technical decision making
- Quality focused, due care and attention taken to ensure solutions and platform meet their quality criteria and the team standards set
- Experience of designing and leading infrastructure projects
- Creativity - taking new approaches to tackle problems; embracing innovation and sharing knowledge with a range of sources and stakeholders
- Certified to at least CCNP
- Experience designing & configuring multi-datacentre fabrics
- Experience with deployment and fine-tuning of IPAM/Monitoring solutions such as Netbox/LibreNMS/Kentick
- Certified Across: Arista (ACE), CCNP/CCIE, PCNSE
Desirable Skills:
- Automation and infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines to automate network service delivery (Ansible, Arista, Python)
- Substantial experience with Arista CloudVision
- Knowledge and experience of network monitoring solutions (Thousand Eyes, Catchpoint or Appneta)
- Strong proponent of automation in design and implementation
- Work with wider assurance function to ensure DR/BCP design, testing procedures are well established and performant
- General security design and architecture knowledge
- Experience of SDN NSX Environment
- Experience of Cisco OTV support
- Experience with VMWare VSphere, cross site deployments
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.