Network Deployment Engineer (EVP/ACI)

Network Deployment Engineer (EVP/ACI) is required to join the Data Centre Projects Team, responsible for the deployment and planning of the Bank's DC network infrastructure.

The team is responsible for the delivery and deployment of network projects and requests to enhance the bank's infrastructure to meet current and future business demands:

The role has the following functions:

• Plan, manage and deploy technology changes to support the bank's 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 RFC's 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

This role is suitable for a Cisco certified Network Engineer who has at least 5-6 years of working as a senior project engineer in a professional environment.

• CCNP/CCIE level
• Project delivery
• Solid experienced in working with the following:
• EVPN/ACI
• vPC's
• IS-IS
• VXLANs
• Redistribution,
• Switching (NX-OS)
• VRFs
• STP
• OSPF
• BGP
• QoS
• Inter fabric connectivity
• Experience in working in large enterprise DC environments
• DC migration experience
• Cisco ACI
• Financial Services sector experience
• Ability to work independently without supervision
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail.
• Analyse, review and understand network topologies.
• Good documentation skills using MS Office suite and Visio
• Good customer facing skills

Desired skills (not essential)

• Experience with delivering Cisco ACI projects
• Load Balancing Experience (F5)
• Checkpoint Firewall experience
• High level design experience