Junior Network Operations Engineer

OpticoreIT Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy, OpticoreIT, is seeking a Junior Network Operations Engineer in Central London to monitor and maintain network health within financial services. This hybrid role offers substantial growth opportunities through free training in advanced network certifications while providing competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Competitive Salary & discretionary bonus

23 days holiday + bank holidays

Private healthcare & dental

Pension

EV car, workplace nursery, and cycle-to-work schemes

Team & Company Social events

EMI share scheme

Qualifications

• Studying for or holder of CCNA/Network+ qualifications.
• Highly organized and motivated.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring the health of the network and security infrastructure.
• Reacting to alerts and providing resolution.
• Completing Level 1 support tickets.

Skills

Problem-solving

Organizational skills

Knowledge of switching and routing

Education

CCNA/Network+ qualifications

University degree in relevant subject

Job description

We are currently seeking a Junior Network Operations Engineer, to join our Network Practice; within one of our Financial Services clients. This is a hybrid position but you will be required to attend the office up to 4 days a week, based in the Central London.

Opticore IT is a rapidly expanding specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within challenging and exciting environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.

What you’ll be doing:

• Monitoring the health of the network and security infrastructure using monitoring and analysis tools
• Reacting to alerts and providing resolution or initial troubleshooting
• Investigate hardware/software problems and work with the manufacturers' support teams to resolve
• Reporting and troubleshooting network connectivity to third parties
• Reporting and troubleshooting WAN connectivity outages and issues with our partners
• Completing Level 1 support tickets
• Completing network audits to ensure compliance to standards

What you need:

• Studying for or holder of CCNA/Network+ qualifications or completed a university degree in a relevant subject
• Highly organised and motivated
• Knowledge of basic switching and routing concepts
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Passion and enthusiasm to help the team in continuing to meet the expected high standards of performance.

What you’ll gain:

Here at OpticoreIT we believe in investing in our team as we understand that we are only as great as our engineers, so learning and development is a big deal for us. Whether you’re going for a CCNP, CCIE, Hashicorp, Python, Cloud Technology or anything in between OpticoreIT has your back with all our training, labs, courses, and shared knowledge and the most important part it’s all free! On top of that, we also give you:

• Competitive Salary & discretionary bonus
• 23 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private healthcare & dental
• Pension
• EV car, workplace nursery, tech, and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes
• Team & Company Social events
• EMI share scheme