NS Financial - Principal Engineer I

Headquartered in London, CACI Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of CACI International Inc., a publicly listed company on the NYSE with annual revenue in excess of US $6.2bn and employing approx. 22,000 people worldwide.

CACI Ltd is an international data and technology consultancy with £154m turnover and 1200 employees. We are passionate, progressive and unafraid of challenge; our mission is to use technology and data driven insight to make a commercial difference.

We provide expert advice and hands on system management to help our national and global clients get the most from technology and data. We use innovation wisely to deliver well thought out digital solutions and software.

CACI's Digital Solutions, Operational Systems and Network Services Groups provide a range of software, Consultancy and managed services to clients. With experience and understanding of systems integration, analytics and secure cloud and managed services, we help clients improve operational processes, gain greater insight into their business and reduce costs.

From data integration, web reporting and activity based costing to mobile working, telecom operational support systems and online transactional solutions, we help our clients to understand their business, manage performance and deliver value for money services to their customers.

Network Deployment Engineer (EVP/ACI) is required to join the Data Centre Projects Team, responsible for the deployment and planning of the Bank's DC network infrastructure.

The team is responsible for the delivery and deployment of network projects and requests to enhance the bank's infrastructure to meet current and future business demands:

The role has the following functions:

• Plan, manage and deploy technology changes to support the bank's DC services
• Deploy LAN infrastructure to support end user services requirements
• Includes patching schedules for facilities to cable network equipment
• Diagrams for Network Operations
• Inventory management
• Create implementation plans for RFC's to a high level of detail.
• Correctly document pre and post checks for change verification purposes
• Understand and document back out plans, clearly identifying back out points.
• Identify points of no return
• Support the stability and uptime of essential services by planning changes with a documented best approach mind set.
• Identify where changes can be complete with zero downtime to hosted services.
• Plan and implement changes with a cost effective resource strategy.
• Identify, understand and document change risks and mitigation tactics.
• Identify, understand and document impact of planned technology changes, including documentation expected output from verification.
• Document network estate for Operation Support and to support change planning
• Complete network diagrams to a high standard.
• Peer review and validation of technical deployment plans
• Provide constructive feedback to peers to support change control requirement and maintain high standards of detail and quality offered by CACI.

Required skills

This role is suitable for a Cisco certified Network Engineer who has at least 5-6 years of working as a senior project engineer in a professional environment.

• CCNP/CCIE level
• Solid experienced in working with the following:
• EVPN/ACI
• vPC's
• IS IS
• VXLANs
• Redistribution,
• Switching (NX OS)
• VRFs
• STP
• OSPF
• BGP
• QoS
• Inter fabric connectivity
• Experience in working in large enterprise DC environments
• Ability to work independently without supervision
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail.
• Analyse, review and understand network topologies.
• Good documentation skills using MS Office suite and Visio

Desired skills (not essential)

• Experience with delivering Cisco ACI projects
• Load Balancing Experience (F5)

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Successful candidates must have the right to work in the UK.