Senior Network and Infrastructure Engineer

We’re seeking a talented Networks & Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team hybrid team. Currently a team of 12, covering a range of operational infrastructure support areas across on-prem and the cloud. Responsible for coreon-prem services including the network, endpoint configuration management,physical and virtual server infrastructure, enterprise storage, compute resources, telephony, and backup and recovery solutions. In addition to on-prem services, we support a growing number of core services hosted in the cloud,primarily within the Microsoft 365 E5 stack, Azure and other cloud service providers e.g. Citrix.

We focus on both operational support and project delivery, working with other teams including cyber security in support of Cyber Essentials requirements, service management to provide engineering escalations and change activity, digital delivery to provide the technical capabilities to implement new services and ensure operational readiness, and the business applications team in underpinning and providing availability for core ERP applications. 

The role offers exposure to a wide range of technologies as well as the opportunity to focus on specific technology areas. It is assumed that this senior level role will play an important role in training and developing staff from Service Desk and Service Delivery areas. 

Key experience, knowledge and skills:  

• Network protocols including OSPF, BGP, VRFs
• Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise switching and OmniVista management
• Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Stellar Wi-Fi networks
• Allied Telesis EPSR Ring topologies
• Allied Telesis network management tools AMF Vista
• Next Gen Firewalls (preferably Fortinet) and VPN
• Network security concepts such as NAC, 802.1x and segmentation systems (Preferably Forescout)
• Protocols used in resilient systems e.g. VRRP, LACP, Virtual-Chassis
• VMWare VCenter virtualisation platform
• On Prem storage arrays (Hitachi)
• Managed backup solutions (Rubrik)
• Active Directory, DNS, DHCP
• Microsoft 365
• Physical data centre and hub room management
• Excellent all-round hardware knowledge
• Excellent standard of written documentation - e.g. policies, procedures, wiki/knowledge base articles 
  

 Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout theduration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward.  We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical.

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