Role: Network Engineer REF 372938
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Stafford
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £32.83 per hour
Spinwell is recruiting for a Network Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NETWORK ENGINEER
- Provide specialist 2nd line technical skills and knowledge that facilitates the provision, configuration and support of force networks, whilst maintaining security, availability, capability, and performance
- Support the delivery of solutions in response to incident, configuration, availability, capacity, continuity, and release management in line with agreed procedures.
- Assist with relevant incident, configuration, availability, capacity, continuity and release management activities in line with the ITIL framework
- Assist Cyber and Security teams in the enforcement of best practice security posture.
- Facilitate network BAU, patching, upgrades and new installation activities
- Monitor network performance and availability.
- Assist in the resolution and implementation of major incidents, major changes, and major releases.
- Provide specialist knowledge in a variety of networking technologies
- Liaise with users when required to ensure their network access expectations are met.
- Ensure the currency of network device firmware/OS (adopting an ‘n-1’ model where possible).
- Provide technical assistance to projects which may often be complex in nature, ensuring solutions meet the required quality levels and that information and/or advice is offered to assist senior colleagues and the wider DDaT team in making appropriate decisions.
- Attend force user groups as necessary, to understand user requirements in terms of the future development and roadmap for applications.
- Manage incidents and service requests to meet the needs of the force and make best use of the resources available.
- Champion good ideas to management.
- Support and assist other technical roles (e.g. 1st Line, EUC) in their development and some matrix management of other technical disciplines where required.
- Contribute and share information with senior internal and external stakeholders where appropriate.
- Provided technical input into the teams longer term plans.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE NETWORK ENGINEER JOB
- One of the following
- Recognised networking qualification
- A graduate qualification
- Equivalent experience
- Demonstrate significant experience in a second/third network engineer role
- Firewall, router and switch configuration within a multi-vendor environment
- Experience of supporting ACI fabric as part of a Hyper Converged Infrastructure
- Experience of supporting VPN solutions and associated security principles and considerations.
- Cisco Wifi support and configuration
- Network Security & Compliance
- Fault finding, diagnosing, and documenting complex issues.
- Experience of supporting network deployments activities through a development, design, test, and implementation lifecycle
- Understanding of ITIL principles
- Understanding of MPLS technologies
- Understanding of dynamic routing protocols e.g. OSPF, BGP
- Awareness of SD WAN technologies
- Significant demonstrable experience of operating at a 2nd/3rd line role in an IT environment
If you are a Network Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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