Network Engineer - Onsite & Shift

+ Rate up to £570 per day + £100 per day expenses

+ Urgent requirement

+ 2-3 month initial contract

Location: Barrow in Furness - Full time on site

Clearance: SC Clearance required

Please note that this role is based in Barrow 5 days a week full time.

This role may involve rotational out of hours working, anticipating a 16:30 - 23:30 evening shift for 2 weeks, followed by 2 weeks on a standard 7.5 hr day shift - subject to change.

Key Skills:

+ SC Clearance and willingness to work onsite

• Cisco Networking (Routing/Switching)
• Data Centre Networking
• Cisco ACI
• Firewalls (Palo Alto / Cisco)
• Authentication (802.1x / Cisco ISE / AD familiarity)

Role Description:

• Inputting into High Level Designs
• Creating Low Level designs from approved High Level Designs
• Configuring core infrastructure components e.g. Data Centre Fabric, Access/Distribution Switches, routers, WAN, firewalls, load balancers, Authentication servers, Wifi controllers, management tooling.
• Performing impact assessments on large or complex networks.
• Performing testing to pre-determined plans and analyse results.
• Planning survey's / surveying for cross/site distribution areas ( Fibre ) - checking for cabling power/space (photo's to be taken)
• Installing new SDA switches in readiness for OOH work for installation/take on and testing of kit, providing ELS and decom/removal of old switches Installation/take on and testing of new SDA kit

Key Skills

• Network Architecture / Architecture (Compute/storage/End User)
• Working in secure environments
• Network Design (HLD/LLD)
• Cisco Networking (Routing/Switching)
• Data Centre Networking
• Cisco ACI
• Firewalls (Palo Alto / Cisco)
• Authentication (802.1x / Cisco ISE / AD familiarity)
• Network management
• Load balancing (Netscaler)
• Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access)
• Meraki
• Wifi
• Remote access
• Encryption