Network Deployment Engineer (EVP/ACI)

CACI Network Services; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector is seeking a Network Deployment Engineer to join their Data Centre Projects Team. This role involves planning and executing technology changes, deploying LAN infrastructure, and ensuring high standards of documentation. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in Cisco technologies and project delivery within large enterprise Data Centre environments.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of experience as a senior project engineer.
• Expertise in EVPN/ACI, BGP, STP, and OSPF.
• Strong documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage, and deploy technology changes for the bank's DC services.
• Document network estate and complete network diagrams.
• Maintain infrastructure database and support change control.

Skills

Project delivery

Cisco ACI

Network topologies analysis

Good customer facing skills

Education

CCNP/CCIE certification

Tools

MS Office

Visio

Job description

Network Deployment Engineer (EVP/ACI)

Network Deployment Engineer (EVP/ACI) is required to join the Data Centre Projects Team, responsible for the deployment and planning of the Bank's DC network infrastructure.

The team is responsible for the delivery and deployment of network projects and requests to enhance the bank's infrastructure to meet current and future business demands:

The role has the following functions:

• Plan, manage and deploy technology changes to support the bank's DC services
• Deploy LAN infrastructure to support end user services requirements
• Includes patching schedules for facilities to cable network equipment
• Diagrams for Network Operations
• Inventory management
• Create implementation plans for RFC's to a high level of detail.
• Correctly document pre and post checks for change verification purposes
• Understand and document back out plans, clearly identifying back out points.
• Identify points of no return
• Support the stability and uptime of essential services by planning changes with a documented best approach mind set.
• Identify where changes can be complete with zero downtime to hosted services.
• Plan and implement changes with a cost-effective resource strategy.
• Identify, understand and document change risks and mitigation tactics.
• Identify, understand and document impact of planned technology changes, including documentation expected output from verification.
• Document network estate for Operation Support and to support change planning
• Maintain infrastructure database
• Complete network diagrams to a high standard.
• Peer review and validation of technical deployment plans
• Provide constructive feedback to peers to support change control requirement and maintain high standards of detail and quality offered by CACI.

Required skills

This role is suitable for a Cisco certified Network Engineer who has at least 5-6 years of working as a senior project engineer in a professional environment.

• CCNP/CCIE level
• Project delivery
• Solid experienced in working with the following:
• EVPN/ACI
• vPC's
• IS-IS
• VXLANs
• Redistribution,
• Switching (NX-OS)
• VRFs
• STP
• OSPF
• BGP
• QoS
• Inter fabric connectivity
• Experience in working in large enterprise DC environments
• DC migration experience
• Cisco ACI
• Financial Services sector experience
• Ability to work independently without supervision
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail.
• Analyse, review and understand network topologies.
• Good documentation skills using MS Office suite and Visio
• Good customer facing skills

Desired skills (not essential)

• Experience with delivering Cisco ACI projects
• Load Balancing Experience (F5)
• Checkpoint Firewall experience
• High level design experience