Network Engineer Permanent

An exciting new role has come to market to join our client who is part of a leading provider of advice, investments and wealth management. They have grown to become the UK’s largest distributor of financial advice.

Role: Network Engineer

Salary: £32,000 – £35,000

Location: Newcastle 

Type: Permanent, full-time + FTC 

As a Network Engineer, you will be responsible for maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network specialists on network optimization. Alongside this, The Network Engineer will undertake data network fault investigations in local and wide-area environments using information from multiple sources. As a Network Engineer, you will be tasked with developing the IT Network through continuous improvement striving to improve quality and service levels in line with business requirements as well as securing network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access.

Key Responsibilities of the Network Engineer:

• Support and administer firewall environments in line with IT security policy, whilst monitoring and identification of Network vulnerabilities.
• Produce costings and solution designs when recommending new IT systems, services, and technologies.
• Upgrade data network equipment to the latest stable firmware releases.
• Configure routing and switching equipment, hosted IP voice services and firewalls as well as undertaking capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centers.
• Support access management by maintaining infrastructure specific access rights by undertaking creation, deletion and modification of user accounts whilst ensuring access controls are maintained and regularly monitored and reviewed in conjunction with security policies.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Excellent organisational and planning skills with the ability to manage a variety of tasks and responsibilities with a clear delivery focus.
• Thrive in a dynamic busy environment, offering the ability to prioritise tasks appropriately and cope with pressure well as well as accommodating numerous competing demands.
• Excellent communicator who is comfortable dealing with a variety of audiences (e.g. Executive Directors, advisers, staff and 3rd party IT suppliers, and can tailor communications appropriately.
• Flexible and adaptable to an ever-changing environment.
• High level current technical qualification, such as Cisco, Citrix or Microsoft certification, as well as CCNA, with proven experience of delivering infrastructure design and support within an enterprise environment.
• Excellent breadth and depth of network Infrastructure gained through significant relevant hands-on experience including a solid understanding of key technologies, including Microsoft server products, Juniper and Cisco networking at a senior administrator/ designer. 
• Knowledge of ISO layer network model, Cisco ISE, Firewalls, internet filtering products, remote access techniques including RADIUS and VPN techniques, proactive systems and applications monitoring techniques, advanced TCP/IP Networking and advanced DNS & DHCP.
• Extensive knowledge of developing technical sectors such as mobile apps, cloud-based services, and web apps.
• Good knowledge of cloud technologies including Microsoft Azure from a design and administration perspective. 
• Good understanding of business continuity and IT security best practice and procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of ITIL and awareness of ISO20000/27000, as well as an understanding of project delivery methodologies, such as PRINCE2 and Agile.
• Must be willing to travel to other sites as required.

In return, our client is offering a competitive salary of £32,000 – £35,000 based on experience, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with the ability to buy and sell up to an additional 3 days, annual bonus scheme: most employees are eligible to participate in the company’s bonus scheme, based on the company’s performance and their contribution to it. Pension scheme (a non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions), Private medical insurance, and Life assurance: four-times your salary.

If this sounds like the right role for you, please send your CV to jobs@360recruitment.net