Network Engineer

Genesis10; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401K

Commuter Benefits

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Genesis10 is seeking a Network Engineer for a London-based role with a Financial Services firm. You will join a team of network experts, manage delivery, test, document, and deploy network infrastructure solutions, and hand off to support teams.

You will work on enterprise-scale WAN/Campus/Data Centre networks, SD-WAN (Viptela/Meraki), firewalls, VPNs and load balancers, with a focus on automation and ongoing optimisation.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in Network Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience analysing new products and recommending implementations.
• Data centre relocation experience is preferred.
• Azure fundamentals (AZ900) and AZ700 Azure networking fluency.
• Hands-on Terraform management at scale.
• Knowledge of Cisco routing & switching, SD-WAN, firewalls and VPNs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering to implement networking solutions.
• Maintain operations documentation in Confluence.
• Manage infrastructure delivery with a service-oriented approach.
• Assess and improve existing infrastructure systems.
• Oversee daily IT service operations with automation and best practices.
• Provide technical escalation during business hours and off-hours.
• Identify process improvements and drive standardisation.

Skills

Network engineering

Azure networking

Enterprise networking

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Education

Azure certifications or networking certs

Tools

Terraform

Cisco routing & switching

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela & Meraki)

Firewalls & VPN

Load balancers

Job description

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Network Engineer for a position with a Financial Services Firm located in London, GB. As the Network Engineer, you will be a part of a team of network experts, managing network delivery to completion and ensuring hand-off to necessary support teams. You will administer aspects of large-scale projects to engineer, test, document, and deploy network infrastructure solutions. You will work independently to provide technical solutions to solve complex challenges for both IT-facing and business-facing customers and ensure the successful implementation of technology projects.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Engineering to help implement proposed solutions for networking
• Provide and help to maintain documentation given to operations team to populate within confluence site
• Manage the Infrastructure environment with service-oriented approach and efficient delivery to meet the customer needs, requirements and their service expectations
• Work with engineering to gauge the effectiveness of existing infrastructure systems; develop strategies for improving or further using these systems
• Manage the efficient daily operations and maintenance of the IT services with best practices, automation and orchestration capabilities and ensure effectiveness of the service
• Take end-to-end ownership to prevent and solve network issues, anticipate and avoid problems and in taking actions and optimizations
• Identify the areas for improvements and lead the effort in standardising processes, streamlining and making processes simple
• Provide technical escalation point for production support during normal business and off-hours

Requirements:

• 2 years' experience in Network Engineering
• Experience analysing new products and making recommendations for implementation
• Experience in data centre relocations
• Azure fundamentals (AZ900) and AZ700 Azure networking fluency
• Practical experience using Terraform to manage at scale
• Knowledge of Cisco routing and switching technologies
• Experience with WAN, Campus, Data Centre, Wireless, and networks at an enterprise scale
• Experience with Cisco SD-WAN technologies Viptela and Meraki
• Experience with firewalls and VPN devices
• Solid knowledge of infrastructure systems including compute, OS, hypervisor, network, storage, database and security
• Experience with load balancers

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client.

Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.