Network Specialist
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08-04-2024
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Job Description
The Senior Network Engineer oversees the workflow involved in maintaining improving and expanding the company’s enterprise network. This person will be responsible for designing and implementing the network infrastructure resolving advanced support issues and managing junior network engineering staff. Ultimately this person will be responsible for the functional management of the entire network delegation of tasks and resolution of network issues.
This person takes the lead in all matters on network infrastructure and will be expected to assist in providing network support and troubleshooting from diagnosis to resolution when required. The Senior Network Engineer exercises judgment and creativity in selecting and applying procedures correctly and continuously integrating with the entire IT team ensuring the network infrastructure supports the needs of the business.
Duties and Responsibilities
This person takes the lead in all matters on network infrastructure and will be expected to assist in providing network support and troubleshooting from diagnosis to resolution when required. The Senior Network Engineer exercises judgment and creativity in selecting and applying procedures correctly and continuously integrating with the entire IT team ensuring the network infrastructure supports the needs of the business.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Design Install Configure Implement Support Repair & Administer network systems and solutions including voice
- Responsible for assisting in the daytoday support and networking functions of the company
- Improving and maintaining network performance capacity and availability
- Creating and implementing network security measures
- Manage implementation projects and roll outs of network equipment and systems
- Monitoring network performance and integrity and diagnose related issues
- Designing writing and updating both system documentation network diagrams and network asset lists
- Drawing up network status reports
- Tightly manage vendor/stakeholder relationships and SLAs relating to network services
- Adhere to SLAs to ensure enduser expectations are met
- Responsible for network related tickets assigned to the network team
- Liaising with all technical resources involved when required
- Regularly performing network firmware upgrades
- Routine device configuration backups
- Perform wireless heat map surveys
- WAN failover testing
- Perform after hours and weekend standby as and when required
- Perform skills transfer and inhouse training to the rest of the team
- Continuous research and development to stay abreast with trends and best practices from both a technology and security perspective
- CCNA required CCNP preferred
- Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist would be of great value
- Fortinet NSE 4 or higher will be an advantage
- ITIL Foundation is preferred
- University diploma or degree preferably in Computer Science Information Technology or related fields is a plus
- At least 5 years industryrelated work experience in a similar role
- Solid background in network administration and architecture
- Indepth understanding of communication protocols (mainly TCP/IP) and routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF
- Experience in implementing and supporting PBR VPN MPLS SDWAN is essential
- Solid experience in managing and maintaining VLANs
- Proven experience working on Cisco Meraki and HP WAN and LAN products
- Working knowledge of VOIP and related QOS
- Excellent understanding of IP Addressing DNS and DHCP
- Familiarity with access control models and network security
- Solid network troubleshooting ability
- Indepth understanding of network operating systems
- Experience in vendor management specifically managing various outsourced network services
- Experienced with managing projects from inception to completion
- Expertise in setting and managing stakeholder expectations
- Fortigate firewall experience would be a great advantage
- Azure firewall and networking experience would be preferred
- Experience with hosted VOIP solutions such as Euphoria is preferred
- Competencies and Skills
- Ability to think logically and demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Must be able to pay attention to details.
- Applying both critical and analytical thinking.
- Must be able to effectively manage various stakeholders on a daily basis.
- Strong leadership and team mentoring skills.
- Have a good business and service delivery acumen.
- Able to multitask and work under extreme pressure.
Employment Type
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