Network Engineer

Network Engineer required for leading Financial Services organisation to work 100% remote with on call. This is an initial 6 months inside IR35 contract role with a strong possibility of moving to permanent.

Skills Required.

The successful individual must:

• Understand and manage Internal BGP and OSPF routing
• Understand and manage L2 VRF/Vlan/STP and Mlag, Port-Channel concept
• Have experience with network monitoring tools and network alerts e.g Observium / Icinga / Nagios
• Palo Alto - have experience with firewall, IDS/IPS
• Arista - Managing Arista Switches
• Python - Scripting for network monitoring and automation
• Ansible - Network provisioning and automation
• SONiC management and deployment
• AWS - basic cloud networking knowledge
• Certification in AWS or Cisco or Arista or PaloAlto is highly desirable.
• Have a relevant background in financial services - Investment banking/trading

Responsibilities.

The Network Engineer’s role is to ensure the stability and integrity of the in-house unicast and multicast network environment. The role will involve:

• Planning, designing, and developing local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) across the organisation.
• Participate with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimisation of all network hardware, software, and communication links.
• Analyse and resolve network hardware and software problems in a timely and accurate fashion, and handle security and Firewall requests.

Please send your CV in word format for the attention of Alison Calder.