Network Consultant

NETWORK CONSULTANT

OVERVIEW:

Technical Excellence in networking is crucial to the business. Our client requires someone who can build a strong relationship with our clients customers, display passion and enthusiasm for designing and delivering brilliant IT solutions across networks and services, both on-premises and cloud-hosted.

As a Network Consultant, you will be a trusted advisor and be the technical lead on projects, ensuring the company delivers optimal solutions and services to their customers.

They are a Premier Cisco partner. You will be responsible for consulting, designing, installing and providing major incident support across Cisco and other network vendors' product ranges and solutions

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Commercial:

• Assisting with pre-sales demonstrations and identifying upsell opportunities when conducting client estate audits.
• Build excellent rapport with our clients and be the trusted advisor for all their technology needs.
• Extensive Stakeholder Management experience and be able to influence commercial decisions.

Customer Service:

• Go the extra mile for our clients, we pride ourselves in providing personalised, friendly and unique service.
• Possess the "fill the room" effect, which means you will "wow" our clients through demonstrating a high standard of knowledge and gravitas.
• Proactively ensure our customers' networks and the services we are providing are running at an optimal level. Regularly review their technical estates to minimise vulnerability or risk to their network.
• Contribute to an on-call rota, one week in five

Leadership:

• As a Subject Matter Expert within networking and ultimately a "go-to" person you will be responsible for acting as technical lead on projects and taking ownership of client relationships.
• It is important that you collaborate with the team and knowledge share, mentoring others is a significant factor within this role.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• CCNP R&S is essential.
• Knowledge of WAN and LAN solutions, including network virtualisation.
• Done design, configuration and maintenance of Firewalls like Cisco ASA/FirePOWER, Cisco ISE.
• Prior experience or interest in SDN, SD-WAN, Hyper-Converged and Hybrid-Cloud Data Centre Solutions such as Cisco Viptela or ACI, as this is very much the direction their business is moving.
• Creation of HLD, LLD and technical documentation
• In-depth knowledge of VLAN design and implementation.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of routing and switching, particularly across Cisco products.
• Have built WLC from scratch, doing site surveys and identifying access points. They mainly use Meraki.
• Configuration and deployment of Cisco virtual appliances and VMware vCentre networking.

Desirable:

• CCNP Security, CCDP or CCIE R&S/Security is highly advantageous.
• Any training or certifications with other vendors is nice to have but not essential.
• Having prior Cisco Umbrella or AMP experience is highly desirable but not essential.

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