Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Network Engineer Consultant will design, implement, and maintain the organization's network infrastructure, focusing on routing and switching technologies. This role supports the Unified Communication teams in migrating on-premises Cisco UC infrastructure to cloud solutions and ensuring efficient data transfer across the network. The position requires troubleshooting network issues and managing routing and switching projects. A deep understanding of networking protocols and hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Cisco ThousandEyes is essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement functional network infrastructure (routing, switching, Wi-Fi) that ensures the integrity and availability of information and access.
- Work alongside the UC team covering network aspects for the delivery of Microsoft Teams solutions.
- Support the UC teams migration of on-prem Cisco UC infrastructure to Cisco hosted or Cloud solutions.
- Implement QoS to aid the changing UC landscape with Wide Area Network capacity planning and upgrades.
- Rollout Cisco ThousandEyes monitoring across the Client network.
- Troubleshoot network issues and outages, schedule upgrades, and collaborate with network architects on network optimization.
- Update network equipment to the latest firmware releases.
- Report network operational status by gathering and prioritizing information.
- Manage and lead routing and switching projects, including configuring and installing new hardware, software, and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS), and creating policies and procedures related to network hardware and software.
- Provide technical support and consultation for IT and end-user departments.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a Network Engineer focusing on routing, switching, Cisco WiFi.
- Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., QoS, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, 802.11, 802.1x, IPSEC).
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic, and network analytics tools including Cisco ThousandEyes.
- Knowledge of Cisco SD-WAN, SD-Access, Catalysts Center and ISE a plus.
- Network firewall policy administration a plus.
- Hands-on experience of automation/scripting and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
- University degree in Computer Science or a related subject.
- Professional certification (e.g., CCNA, CCNP) is preferred.
- Experience with Cisco: switches, routers, firewalls, Catalyst Center, ISE, WiFi.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: Network Engineer
Location: London/ Edinburgh, UK.
Job type: Permanent /Contract
Job description:
Description: The Network Engineer Consultant will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the network infrastructure of our organization. This role requires a deep understanding of routing and switching technologies to ensure the efficient and secure transfer of data across the network. It will support the Client's Unified Communication (UC) teams’ program of work focusing on network engineering aspects.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement functional network infrastructure ( routing, switching , Wi-Fi) that ensures the integrity and availability of information and access.
- Work alongside the UC team covering network aspects for the delivery of Microsoft Teams solutions.
- Supporting the UC teams migration of on-prem Cisco UC infrastructure to Cisco hosted or Cloud solutions.
- QoS implementations to aid the changing UC landscape with and Wide Area Network capacity planning and upgrades
- Rollout of Cisco ThousandEyes monitoring across the Client network
- Troubleshoot network issues and outages, schedule upgrades, and collaborate with network architects on network optimization.
- Update network equipment to the latest firmware releases.
- Report network operational status by gathering and prioritizing information.
- Manage and lead routing and switching projects, including the configuring and installation of new hardware, software, and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS), and the creation of policies and procedures related to network hardware and software.
- Provide technical support and consultation for IT and end-user departments.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a Network Engineer focusing on routing, switching, Cisco WiFi
- Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., QoS, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, 802.11, 802.1x, IPSEC).
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic, and network analytics tools including Cisco ThousandEyes.
- Knowledge of Cisco SD-WAN, SD-Access, Catalysts Center and ISE a plus
- Network firewall policy administration a plus
- Hands-on experience of automation/scripting and configuration management tools such as Ansible
- University degree in Computer Science or a related subject.
- Professional certification (e.g., CCNA, CCNP) is preferred.
- Experience with Cisco: switches, routers, firewalls, Catalyst Center, ISE, WiFi.