Senior Network Engineer - Preston/remote - circa £65,000 plus package

I have an exciting opportunity for a global organisation who are currently looking for a Senior Network Engineer based near Preston. The role is hybrid (3 days on-site, 2 days from home). In this role, you will be a key member of the Infrastructure team, ensuring the network infrastructure is secure, robust, resilient and compliant to PCI standards.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership and leadership of technical resolution for Networking issues and modernisation initiatives.
• Adherence to company standards for change control, network security and network patterns.
• Lead the Network team during disaster recovery and business continuity operations.
• Define operational procedures and provide necessary documentation and diagrams.
• Lead and support network delivery requirements for Service Improvement, technical debt remediation and modernisation roadmap initiatives.
• Design and lead internal projects and deliveries aligned with the network roadmap.
• Support the architecture teams in developing the network roadmap.
• Identify new technologies and services to transform the network service.
• Work with Project Managers and IT Service Managers to ensure project delivery meets the estate requirements.
• Responsible for completing tasks, focusing on requirements and client needs which you will help to identify, advise and recommend technical solutions based on experience and industry knowledge.
• Support the implementation of strategy and policy issues by involvement in change and/or advice to other technical areas and make recommendations to improve procedures and working practices.
• Improve knowledge of the systems processes and technologies, infrastructure and service development processes, both current and emerging technology.

Experience required:

• Expert knowledge of network administration on Cisco routing, switching and Cisco ASA Firewalls
• A good working knowledge of Checkpoint Firewalls
• Expert in multiple Cisco routing, switching and security technologies with a strong background in Cisco ASA and Cisco Nexus
• A good understanding of the business areas and application/service components used and an appreciation of applications from both a technical and business perspective
• Knowledge of MPLS, Software Defined Networks and WAN's (SDWAN, Zero Trust Network, SASE)
• Knowledge of Border Gateway Protocol
• Experience of Cisco CCIE, Cisco CCNP - Routing and Switching, Cisco CCNP - Security,Cisco ASA Firewalls

Desirable

• Knowledge of Cisco UCS Networking or Nutanix Hyperconverged environments
• An understanding of and extensive experience with Solarwinds and similar network monitoring & configuration tools such as Auvik
• Experience or knowledge of working with cloud virtual networks and gateways such as those found in Azure and AWS.
• CheckPoint CCSA

Senior Network Engineer - Preston/remote - circa £65,000 plus package