Candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, monitoring, and managing the local and wide area networks of an organization to ensure maximum uptime for users. The role involves developing and maintaining the company's network infrastructure to ensure networks are running smoothly and securely.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design and implement both the physical and wireless networks of an organization, including LANs, WANs, network segments, and internet and intranet systems.
• Maintain network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, troubleshooting network problems, and escalating problems to vendor.
• Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access.
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Report network operational status by gathering and prioritizing information and managing projects.
• Upgrade data network equipment to the latest stable firmware releases.
• Configure routing and switching equipment.
• Provide remote support to on-site engineers and end users during installation.
• Provide remote troubleshooting and fault-finding if issues occur upon initial installation.
• Undertake capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centers.
• Liaise with project management teams, third-line engineers and service desk engineers on a regular basis.
• Speak to customers via email and phone for initial requirement capture.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field.
• With 5-10 years of proven experience in a network engineer role.
• Hands-on experience in networking, routing, and switching.
• Excellent knowledge of best practices around management, control, and monitoring of server infrastructure.
• Experience with firewalls, internet VPN's remote implementation, troubleshooting, and problem resolution.
• Ability to set up and configure server hardware.
• Familiarity with backup and recovery software and methodologies.
• Great at organizing, prioritizing and multitasking.
• Juniper, Cisco, CWNA or BCNE training.
• Professional certification (e.g. CCNP, CCDP) is a plus.
