Network Engineer - DV Cleared - Hampshire

8 month contract - £350.00-390.00 per day

CCNA / CNNP / Cisco / WAN / Design / Build / DV cleared / LAN / DHCP / DNS

This position will have overall responsibility for engineering (design & build) and day-to-day support of the Wide Area Network, Local Area Network and NW Security. Will be responsible to troubleshoot and resolve network and security problems. Have the ability to quickly identify and resolve problems stemming from network congestion, network collisions and other network abnormalities. Will be required to monitor, meet and report on Service Level Agreements. Implement and Manage network policies and standards.

You will work in a small, multi-skilled team across a range of technical products to build the system. You will be responsible for operating the system in a service management regime, and for ongoing continuous improvement and technical refresh projects. You will have significant experience of integrating secure systems, of problem resolution. You will be able to lead design discussions with the customer and security assurance.

LAN/WAN solutions (VLANS, STP, routing protocols, link-aggregation, QoS, 802.1x)
NGFW firewalls (including configuration of FW rules/translation/IPSec tunnels/VPN clients/web-filtering features)
IPS and vulnerabilities management systems
Load-balancing based on hardware devices
Familiar with TCP/IP and related protocols such as DHCP, WINS, DNS, SMTP, POP3, and SNMP which helps in troubleshooting complex problems
Experience in Windows server and client operating systems
Experience of build and operation of highly secure infrastructure systems
Experience of taking systems through security test and applying remediation(s)
Understanding of Lean-Agile methods and DevOps working practices
MS Office skills e.g. Excel, Word and Project, Visio

Desirable

Experience with Cisco, switches and routers and firewalls, however other network equipment vendors favourable.
Experience of VMWare Cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure
Experience of Microsoft Identity Manager or similar privilege management products
Technology refresh projects for Windows/VMware environments.
Experience of using and building continuous integration and automation pipelines, including Jira, Ansible and similar tools
Experience of managing Linux servers

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