Job Title: Network Engineer
Location: London (Camden) - Hybrid 2/3 days a week
Salary/Rate: 500 per day Inside IR35
Start Date: March 2025
Job Type: 6-month initial Contract - Hybrid 2/3 days a week

My client within the Telecommunications/Fibre sector is urgently seeking a Network Engineer to assist with developing, maintaining, improving, and supporting complex environments encompassing services, Servers, and applications alongside both on-prem and cloud platforms.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

1. Monitor and own network tickets raised by the NOC into Network Technology team.
2. Build, maintain and continuously enhance or observability toolset at scale.
3. Support creation of HLD/LLD's of the monitoring infrastructure in accordance with well architected frameworks.
4. Implement automation processes for monitoring tools/scripts including build and deployment as directed by the Senior Network Engineers.
5. Deliver end-to-end data ingestion and processing using OpenSearch/Elastic Stack.
6. Product evaluation based on cost, efficiency, fitness for purpose.
7. Contribute to network orchestration and automation solutions including inventory reconciliation, workflow automation and network configuration validation.
8. Support Senior Network Engineers in designing, testing and implementing full automation of building and maintaining Access infrastructure supporting ISP networks at scale
9. Working closely with support, Delivery, NOC and Network Engineering teams to develop an effective monitoring that cover all requirements from operations and L1/L2/L3/L4 teams.
10. Deliver end-to-end data ingestion and processing using OpenSearch/Elastic Stack.

Required Skills/Experience

1. Experience working in a network and systems environment.
2. Advanced understanding of Linux.
3. Configuration Management Systems - Puppet/Ansible
4. Source Control - GitLab
5. Experience with both cloud and physical infrastructure: Proxmox, VMware, AWS
6. Scripting Python, Java
7. Application and network security best practices - SSH/Iptables/TLS
8. Network configuration and Administration - Adtran, Nokia etc.
9. Data Analysis, Json, XML, SQL, Wireshark
10. Grafana, Zabbix, Ansible, Cacti, Zenoss, Netcool, iManager, Nagios, Splunk, SNMP, FreeRADIUS
11. Remote Desktop/Telnet and SSH, Console Access, Management Networks
12. Understanding of industry standard availability metrics, eg MTBF, MTTR, SLA, SLO, OLA.

Desirable Skills/Experience

1. Familiarity with SIEM, detect security threats and event correlation is a plus.
2. Experience with infrastructure as code (IAC) practices.
3. Experience with database proxies.
4. Experience with data replication, backup, and recovery strategies.
5. Expertise in database performance tuning and optimisation.
6. Experience with network assurance and/or automated network configuration analysis platforms.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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