Network Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Annonymous
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Network Engineer involves designing, deploying, managing, and maintaining a global network and physical infrastructure on a 3-month contract. The position requires excellent communication skills to interact with non-technical staff and the ability to manage multiple projects while ensuring high uptime and availability. Candidates should have strong technical experience in enterprise network architecture and security. Certification is a bonus but not mandatory.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, manage, and maintain global network and physical infrastructure.
- Ensure optimal uptime and availability to support business goals and customer needs.
- Interact with other teams and explain technical issues to non-technical staff.
- Handle multiple projects and work items with attention to detail.
Key Skills:
- Experience in global enterprise network architecture (WAN, campus, data centre).
- Strong technical experience in enterprise and data centre routing and switching (OSPF, BGP, ECMP, VXLAN).
- Knowledge of network security architectures (firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS).
- Experience with data centre power, cooling, and cabling standards.
- Experience working with WAN providers and fibre network infrastructure.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Oxford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join as a Network Engineer on a 3 month contract and be responsible for designing, deploying, managing and maintaining all aspects of the global network and physical infrastructure, ensuring the best possible uptime and availability to support the business’ customers, goals and growth.
What we're looking for… In this role, you'll need to interact and engage with other teams and explain technical issues to non-technical staff. As such, we're looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who can develop and maintain productive working relationships. You'll also have good organisational skills, the ability to handle multiple projects and work items and a keen attention to detail. If you are currently certified, this would be a bonus.
We'll also expect you to have the following experience, knowledge and skills:
- Experience running, managing and implementing all aspects of a global enterprise network architecture (WAN, campus and data centre)
- Strong technical experience managing, supporting and optimising: Enterprise and data centre routing and switching architectures, including OSPF, BGP, ECMP, and VXLAN.
- Network security architectures and SASE, including firewalls, VPN and IDS/IPS.
- Data centre power, cooling and cabling standards, including experience of single and multi-mode fibre optic networks.
- Experience working with WAN providers and fibre network infrastructure, including DIA, SDWAN, wavelength and dark fibre circuits.