NOC Engineer 

Location – Manchester

Salary – £30,000 – £45,000

The Company

A leading UK communications and services provider, who offer a global core network, and service customers across EMEA are currently looking for a NOC Engineer to join their expanding Manchester team.

The business holds multiple awards for their quality of service and delivers some of the world’s best Service Provider Networks to a variety of global businesses: Meaning you’ll be working alongside some of the best Networking professionals in the industry.

With deployments across the latest technologies, from SD-WAN to next generation firewall solutions, you will have the opportunity to work on bleeding-edge technology.

NOC Engineer Role and Responsibilities

As a NOC Engineer, you will be primarily focussed on 2^nd to 3^rd tier support across complex core networking environments around Networking routing and switching with multiple vendors. Additionally, your role will include:

• Regular interaction with BGP, OSPF, MPLS and ISIS.
• Cisco, Juniper and/or other vendor WAN R&S.
• Managing, maintaining, and monitoring critical network systems.
• Break/fix resolution and fault finding.
• Firewall management and maintenance.

Skills & Experience

• 3 – 5 years’ experience in working across Network environments, ideally in a Service Provider setting.
• Experience with Cisco R&S, WAN and Core Networking.
• Understanding with Fortinet and other security vendors.
• 2^nd and 3^rd tier network operation support.
• Experience in a senior escalation point environment.
• Eagerness to learn and develop, with desire to work with the latest tech.