A Senior Network Engineer is required to join the India Deployment Team, responsible for the deployment and planning of the Banks network infrastructure in the UK, Middle-East, Africa and India.
The team is responsible for the delivery and deployment of network/security projects and requests to enhance the clients infrastructure to meet current and future business demands:-
The role may have, but is not limited to the following functions:
- Plan, manage and deploy technology changes to support 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 RFCs 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
- Maintain infrastructure database
- 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
- Good level of Cisco Routing & Switching
- CCNP certification or equivalent experience
- Ability to handle numerous separate projects concurrently
- A very organised individual.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail.
- Analyse, review and understand network topologies.
- Coordinate multiple projects, change management and governance efficiently working both independently and as a member of a team.
- Good understanding of networking principles,
- Good documentation skills using MS Office suite and Visio
- Good customer facing skills with the ability to keep the customer informed at all times and understand their requirements
- This role is suitable for a Security Engineer who has at least 5 years as a Senior Project Engineer in a professional environment.
Desired skills (not essential)
- Experience with Cisco ACI
- Experience with EVPN
- CheckPoint certification or equivalent experience
- Fortinet certification or equivalent experience
- Load Balancing Experience (F5)
