Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Manchester

Salary: £50,000

The Company

• Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider of choice for global businesses wanting superior technology infrastructure and connectivity to the world’s most dynamic marketplaces
• Pioneer technology across emerging and established markets, designing solutions that offer the highest availability and lowest latency in the industry
• Global, low latency network connects 21 countries worldwide and offers established services in 91 data centres, built for international businesses seeking a competitive advantage

About the Network Engineer role

• Ensure smooth running of computer facilities, manage installations, configurations and daily backbone maintenance
• Engineering in the IP and transport networks
• Provide support level 3 to the Network Operation Center
• Manage peerings and load balancing between network links
• Technical support for physical deployments
• Ensure smooth running of LAN/MAN/WAN i.e. ensure support level 2 and 3 switches, routers, load balancing, cloud infrastructure
• Design network to meet the internal and customer requirements
• Willingness to undertake international travel on occasions

Skills & experience required for the Network Engineer

• 5 years experience in a similar field
• Routing protocols: MPLS, MPLS-TE, BGP, OSPF
• Security: Firewalls Juniper/Fortinet, IPSec, SSL
• Lan architecture: Vlan, STP, Gateway redundancy
• Control of network equipment and CISCO, BROCADE and Juniper is an advantage
• Supervision SNMP
• Notion in transport network: WDM, SDH
• Knowledge of GNU/Linux
• CCNP/CCIE Level but the certification itself is not mandatory
• Ability to work with a team composed of a large panel of skills is required