Senior network engineer

Technical proficient to understand a complex data network environment.

The candidate should have 8+ years experience at senior network engineer level.

Self-starter able to provide team managers backup and support.

Essential Skills

Excellent Cisco Datacentre core (Nexus) switching and routing skills.
Cisco Catalyst, Aruba wireless and switching.

Excellent security skills.
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).
Voice over IP (VoIP).
Sound Routing protocol knowledge and setup OSPF, BGP, EIGRP
OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP)
IP addressing and subnetting.
Sound VLAN knowledge and configuration.
Cloud network integration experience.
Excellent troubleshooting skills

The candidate will also provide

Hands on WAN and LAN support across the Truworths estate.
Provide management and advice on future network strategy and technologies.
Provide technical input at a very detailed level around network / wireless faults and be able to liaise with our external vendors to drive solutions.
Make use of monitoring tools to pre-empt possible outages
Take lead role in troubleshooting any IT Infrastructure issues.
Project Management of network and datacentre related initiatives.
Patch management strategy.
Creating accurate management reporting information.
Forecasting the growth in infrastructure requirements.
Service availability using monitoring and alerting tools.
High availability strategy.
Scalability and capacity planning.
Improve and optimise current infrastructure implementations.
Document designs, specifications and implementations.

It would be beneficial if the candidate has experience in managing datacentres.