Network Engineer

Stefanini EMEA; Barry; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Private health scheme

Extra vacation days

Training programs

Personalized career path

Job summary

Stefanini EMEA is seeking a Network Engineer in Barry, United Kingdom. This role involves local and remote network design, implementation, and thorough documentation. Successful candidates will monitor performance and provide technical networking support, requiring CCNA or CCNP certification and 1-2 years of related experience.

The position is 100% onsite with a fixed-term contract; competitive salary and benefits are offered, including a private health scheme and opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• CCNA or CCNP certifications or equivalent.
• 1-2 years of experience in network design, implementation, and documentation.
• Experience with switching, routing, Wi-Fi, and FW/VPN on Cisco platforms.

Responsibilities

• Perform local and remote network design, implementation, and documentation.
• Monitor network performance and make improvements.
• Provide technical networking support to customers and peers.

Skills

Network design

Troubleshooting

CCNA or CCNP certifications

Experience with Cisco platforms

CheckPoint Firewall experience

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Perform local, remote and inter-networking design, implementation and documentation.
• Utilize and integrate network components such as bridges, routers and remote asynchronous links.
• Monitor the performance of the network platform and make technical recommendations on improvements if necessary.
• Identify business leads, interface with sales and provide input into technical proposal development.
• Coordinate and take lead of assigned projects in all technical and communication aspects.
• Provide technical networking support to customers and peers.
• Support the implementation and ongoing operations of network access control devices including firewalls, web proxies, and SSL VPN devices.
• Work collaboratively across a variety of business units to implement new technology.
• Build and configure solutions in the development, test and production environments.
• Document the security infrastructure and design.
• Manage problems, maintain vendor relationships, and assist operations with vendor escalation and issue resolution.
• Facilitate device refresh of network security devices with a focus on capacity, manageability, and security of new and existing security infrastructure.
• Design, deploy, and support enterprise class devices.
• Troubleshoot issues including network protocol and log analysis, raw data captures, and the correlation of disparate events spanning multiple devices and platforms.
• Provide enterprise network architecture, design, and support including network hardware, network protocols, and data flows.

Job Requirements

• CCNA or CCNP certifications or equivalent.
• 1-2 years of experience in network design, implementation and documentation.
• Experience with switching, routing, Wi-Fi and FW/VPN on Cisco platform.
• Experience with Checkpoint firewalls.
• Experience designing and maintaining Checkpoint Firewall-1/VPN-1 solutions (R65 and above).
• Experience upgrading HW/SW gateways and management.
• Experience working with IP appliance platforms.
• Experience creating VPN tunnels to customer network.
• Receiving supervision on issues related to procedures and standards relevant to the products responsible for and the operating environment in which they function.

Work Conditions

• Working hours: 3 full days per week.
• Contract type: Fixed-term – duration to be determined.
• Working setup (hybrid, on site, remote): 100% onsite.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package including monthly absence‑free bonus.
• Private health scheme including private medical, dental, optical and holiday travel.
• Insurance applied according to company policy.
• Extra vacation days.
• Opportunities to learn and develop: training programs.
• Personalized career path within the organization.
• Exposure to an international environment as part of a multicultural team spread across Europe.