Job description
Role: Contract Network Engineer
Length: 3 Months
Location: Havant
Rate: Negotiable
IR35 Determination: Inside
Shift Pattern: 3 weeks during the day, 1 week night shift
** Excellent opportunity to have some fun and work at the same time. If you are Network Specialist / Network Engineer with experience of Juniper Routers, Switches and Firewalls within an enterprise level environment (Service Provider, Hosting or Colocation) we want to talk to you! **
For our customers, our Network Operations Analysts are not just a pair of hands or the voice on the other end of the line. To our customers you are their support. In this high-impact role, you are primarily responsible for blending customer support and network operations. Be prepared to do work that truly matters - your decisions impact the future of not only our FastFiber Network, but the company as a whole. For this, you must be team focused, customer focused, and have razor-sharp attention to detail in your design and documentation. This goes without saying, but a keen understanding of scalability and resiliency is a skill you'll use on a daily basis as a member of this team. This position requires a willingness to dream big and measure yourself against the best. Not just technologically, but in all that you do. Be prepared for a career that doesn't feel like work, no matter how long and hard you are actually working.
What you will be doing:
- Provide support to colocation and network customers
- Monitor network health and responds to event alarms
- Analyse network traffic patterns and respond to security issues
- Work with Cisco, Juniper and Brocade switches/routers, NetScreen and Juniper firewalls, and Brocade and Citrix load balancers on a daily basis
- Works closely with the network engineering team to troubleshoot and resolve advanced network issues
- Co-ordinates maintenance with customers, vendors and remote technicians
- Detect and Mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against our network and clients
- Monitor and troubleshoot internal and customer servers and applications outages using all monitoring tools
- Configure new customer solutions including Routing, VLANs, MPLS, Load Balancing, VPNs and SD-WAN technologies
The ideal candidate will have:
- Demonstrable hands on network experience is desired
- Strong grasp of TCP/IP, routing, switching, cabling and internet protocols such as BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, etc.
- Advanced knowledge of either Cisco, Juniper or Brocade hardware and software
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - you have a knack for figuring things out
- The ability to communicate clearly and effortlessly, both verbally and in writing
- Customer service skills that will dazzle our clients
- The ability to move quickly and pick things up at the speed of light - we're a fast-paced gang
- We like yoga, but we mean flexible in the sense that you adapt to changes quickly and with ease
- Drive - you know what you want and aren't afraid of working hard to get it
- Flexibility to work shifts under a rotation schedule that includes weekends and nights
- A team player with a great sense of humour
You may have worked in the following capacities:
Juniper Network Engineer, Hosting Network Engineer, Cisco Network, Network Technician, Network Analyst