Industrial Cisco Network Engineer | CCNA

DP World; Stanford-le-Hope, Coryton; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

DP World in the UK is seeking a hands-on IT Network Engineer to lead network performance initiatives from London Gateway Port. Based at Stanford-le-Hope with responsibility for LAN/WAN and wireless across two sites, you will work under the Network Manager on projects, change control, and security policies.

The ideal candidate has CCNA or higher, extensive Cisco experience, and familiarity with virtualization (Cisco UCS, VMware).

Qualifications

• Degree level or equivalent
• CCNA or higher or equivalent qualifications
• Familiar with ITIL concepts
• Commercial awareness
• Proven experience of supporting large Cisco based Enterprise networks
• Experience of networking in large industrial environments would be advantageous
• Understanding of Virtualisation and Cisco UCS/VMware
• Understanding of network design and architectures
• Demonstrable ability to work within a team and liaise effectively with third parties
• Excellent knowledge of networking
• Ability to respond quickly to incidents and urgent requests
• Work effectively under pressure and the ability to contribute to multiple concurrent projects
• Good communication skills
• Familiarity of one of more of the following: Checkpoint Firewalls
• IPSEC VPNs (Remote Access and Site-to-Site)
• CISCO ISE
• F5 Load balancers

Responsibilities

• The network support engineer will monitor the network as defined by the IT procedures and will resolve support issues
• Specifically the network engineer will: Maintain and develop the network hardware and software and provide on-site assistance and troubleshooting; Implement network changes into the various environments following company procedures, i.e. change control and security policies.
• Monitor and maintain the clustered high availability solutions across two sites
• Monitor the Data Centers and Virtual Environments
• Monitor the site wide network infrastructure, this will include all LAN, WAN and Wireless LAN connections
• Monitor communication systems
• Be familiar with DR procedures
• Supply service desk support facilities
• Contribute to and develop network documentation
• Take on other tasks and projects as defined by the Infra structure Manager

Skills

CCNA

Cisco networking

Layer 2/3 switching

Network performance monitoring

ITIL concepts

Firewalls

Wireless technologies

VPNs

VMware

Cisco UCS

Nexus knowledge

Team collaboration

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Checkpoint Firewalls

IPSEC VPNs

CISCO ISE

F5 Load balancers

Job description

DP World in the UK is seeking a hands-on IT Network Engineer to lead network performance initiatives from London Gateway Port. Based at Stanford-le-Hope with responsibility for LAN/WAN and wireless across two sites, you will work under the Network Manager on projects, change control, and security policies.

The ideal candidate has CCNA or higher, extensive Cisco experience, and familiarity with virtualization (Cisco UCS, VMware).