Network Engineer

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***

A prestigious company is looking for a Network Engineer. This network engineer will focus on Cisco Routers/switches, LAN/WAN, Cisco ACI, Firewalls, load balancing, Ansible/Terraform, Cloud, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the full lifecycle of network infrastructure, including the design, deployment, support, and documentation of routing, switching, firewalls and cloud-base solutions.
• Lead and coordinate network changes, ensuring security, performance and compliance with governance framework (NIST-CSF, COBIT).
• Collaborate with vendors, carriers, and engineering teams to resolve complex issues and drive large-scale project to completion.
• Provide strategic directions for network planning, maintaining up-to-date documentation and deliver on-call operational support to ensure reliability and business continuity.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.) or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience in IT systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of virtualized servers / cloud systems
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP or CCDP) equivalent field experience
• AWS certifications such as DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, Advanced Networking, or Security or equivalent field experience
• Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer (CCIE) Certification
• Experience directing use of tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Python, and Github (or industry equivalent)
• Experience delivering Infrastructure as code
• Experience building cloud infrastructure in environments such as AWS (Preferred), Azure, or Google Cloud, or similar service
• Knowledge of layer 3 routing and switching
• Experience with IOS, NX-OS, and XR
• Advanced experience with architecting, designing, deploying, and operating network elements such as DNS/IPAM; Firewalls; Network Access Control Solutions (NAC); load balancing; DDoS mitigation, tapping/sniffing infrastructures; and NTP
• Excellent physical communication troubleshooting skills using cabling and signaling analyzer, packet capture and analysis
• Advanced WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, VPN, Ethernet Skills
• Extensive EIGRP, BGP4, RIP and OSPF Routing Protocol knowledge
• Experience with SDN deployments or Cisco ACI
• Experience with IP route and switching for mainframe and storage appliances