Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Barrow In Furness

6 months+

£515 per day inside ir35

SC security clearance is required for this role

Based in Barrow 5 days a week f/t - please be aware these roles will may involve rotational out of hours working, anticipating a 16:30 - 23:30 evening shift for 2 weeks, followed by 2 weeks on a standard 7.5 hr day shift - subject to change.

Expenses of up to £100 per day can be claimed

Role Description:

Inputting into High Level Designs

Creating Low Level designs from approved High Level Designs

Configuring core infrastructure components eg Data Centre Fabric, Access/Distribution Switches, Routers, WAN, Firewalls, load balancers, Authentication Servers, Wifi controllers, management tooling.

Performing impact assessments on large or complex networks.

Performing testing to pre-determined plans and analyse results.

Planning survey's/surveying for cross/site distribution areas ( Fibre ) - checking for cabling power/space (photo's to be taken)

Installing new SDA Switches in readiness for OOH work for installation/take on and testing of kit, providing ELS and decom/removal of old Switches Installation/take on and testing of new SDA kit

Key Skills:

Network Architecture/Architecture (Compute/storage/End User)

Working in secure environments

Network Design (HLD/LLD)

Cisco Networking (Routing/Switching)

Data Centre Networking

Cisco ACI

Firewalls (Palo Alto/Cisco)

Authentication (802.1x/Cisco ISE/AD familiarity)

Network managementLoad balancing (Netscaler)

Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access)

Meraki

Wifi

Remote access

Encryption