Senior Network Engineer | SC Cleared

You'll join an established Network Operations Centre team in London working at a secure government client. Ideally, you will have experience working in a large client outsourcing environment, working within a client-facing BAU team. You'll be capable of troubleshooting and configuring complex enterprise networks, serving as a valuable team player with experience of working in geographically dispersed environments. Additionally, you will possess the ability to lead and direct major incident resolution while effectively liaising with third-party network service providers. It's essential to have or be able to demonstrate competencies to a CCNA/CCNP level.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Level 3 Network support and incident diagnostics/resolution.
• Implement network changes via ITSM requests.
• Integrate within the team and demonstrate a 'can do' attitude.
• Participate in the on-call rota.
• Work within ITIL processes and established configuration/change management policies.
• Perform network maintenance, upgrades, and security configurations.

Requirements:

• Hold SC Clearance and be a UK National.
• Extensive experience in IT and networking.
• CCNA/CCNP level competencies.
• Good working knowledge of ITIL processes.
• Cisco ACI software-defined networks (multi-site & multi-pod)
• Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)
• Network management tools like SolarWinds, or similar
• Citrix Netscaler
• Network Firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower, Cisco ASA & AnyConnect Remote Access)
• Identity Services - AAA & Cisco ISE
• Troubleshooting and fault-finding complex routing issues (BGP, OSPF & EIGRP)
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including firmware, patches, hot fixes and security configurations.

Desirable experience:

• Scripting & automation tools (TCL, Python, Perl, Ansible, Jinja2)
• (Enterprise) Wi-Fi technologies including Cisco WLC or others
• Cisco UCS
• Supporting IT Health Checks
• Netscaler Administration

Understanding/experience:

• DevOps experience
• Spanning-tree protocols like MST, PVST & RSTP, trunking, channels, first-hop routing protocols and CDP
• Enterprise and service provider routing protocols like OSPF. BGP and EIGRP
• Network management protocols like SNMP, Netflow, SCP, NTP and AAA