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Position Overview:
The Principal Network Engineer manages and maintains our company’s computer networks. This involves planning and developing solutions for crucial infrastructure initiatives to maintain a vision for the corporate network infrastructure. In addition, this role provides high-level technical guidance and support for the enterprise network structure, as well as mentorship and guidance for a team of engineers that troubleshoots and optimizes our networks. To ensure success as a Principal Network Engineer, you should have extensive experience working with enterprise networks, and advanced project management skills.
Responsibilities:
Lead and support network service implementation and maintenance including accurate and up to date network designs and documentation.
Collaborating with network architects to design and implement functional company networks.
Analyze and confirm the information demands and functional requirements in collaboration with internal and external customers
Adopt network security measures after organizing, planning, and safeguarding data, software, and hardware
Monitor network performance to identify necessary adjustments and improvements
Cooperate with technology suppliers to offer business-focused solutions
Provide technical leadership to teams working on deployment and support
Ensure the stability of the working environment before, during, and after system updates
Establish and maintain strong cross-functional working connections with corporate and local teams
Resolve issues escalated by lower support tiers and provide support for those tiers as needed
Configure firewalls, routing, and switching to maximize network security and efficiency
Utilize online resources and documentation to gain knowledge about new or unfamiliar technology
Installing and configuring networking hardware.
Creating and implementing network security measures.
Mentoring and guiding junior Network Engineering staff.
Conducting regular network performance tests.
Delegating networking maintenance tasks to junior staff.
Dealing with escalated network support issues.
Drawing up network status reports.
Basic Qualifications:
College or University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience
Cisco CCIE/CCDE qualified is desirable or CCNP level equivalent experience
8+ years of High Availability, High Security, Internet Data Center Experience and the requisite rigor needed to operate in that environment
2+ years of public cloud experience preferred but not required
Experience in with automation and deployment frameworks to deploy network services
Documentation skills and experience
Design and deployment experience with most of the following technologies: F5, Palo Alto, Windows Server, VMWare, SD Wan, Network Virtualization
Must be able to lawfully work within the UK and have unrestricted work authorization for UK
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong organization skills and detail-oriented
Excellent problem solving skills
Knowledge of ITSM/ITIL
Project coordination and management experience
Experience with the following:
Cisco OS, FW, Switches, Routers
Palo Alto, FWs
Cisco ACI
F5
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