Network Engineer

OpticoreIT; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

23 days holiday + bank holidays

Pension scheme

EV car and tech salary sacrifice schemes

Team and company social events

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy is seeking a Network Operations Engineer to join their London-based NOC team. This hybrid role involves diagnosing and resolving network issues, along with supporting network infrastructure. Candidates should have a CCNA certification, experience in a network support environment, and be knowledgeable in ITIL processes. The company offers a competitive salary, training opportunities, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in a network support environment.
• Experience administering and upgrading routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Flexibility to participate in on-call rota and shift patterns.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and solve 2nd line problems in the NOC.
• Monitor ticket queues and prioritize work effectively.
• Work closely with 3rd Line team to resolve complex issues.

Skills

CCNA Network Engineer

Routing and Switching

Incident Management

Problem Solving

Customer Support

Education

CCNA certification

Working towards CCNP

Tools

Cisco Routers and Switches

Cisco Meraki Switches

Job description

Opticore IT are currently searching for Network Operations Engineer who is currently operating at a CCNA level with strong general routing and switching knowledge to come and join our NOC. You\'ll join our excelling team, based in the Central London. This is a hybrid opportunity with 3 days in the office.

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

Our Network Operations Centre provides support to our managed service clients, fixing faults and planning maintenance. This role will be working with a team of engineers to proactively maintain and reactively fix our clients\' network when they have issues. The NOC is a fast-paced environment based in our HQ London.

What you\'ll be doing

• Working in our Network Operations Centre as a 2nd line Network Support Engineer.
• Diagnose and solve 2nd line problems and incidents with limited supervision and within SLAs.
• Monitor ticket queues, multitask, and prioritise work by shifting focus as and when required.
• Troubleshoot system and network problems, identify root cause and escalate when appropriately.
• Work closely with the 3rd Line team to resolve complex problems.
• Administer and maintain customer infrastructure via change control.
• Perform RMAs, software upgrades and patch management, for several vendors.
• Create technical documents, diagrams, and SOPs whilst maintaining the company\'s knowledge base.
• Administer and maintain the company\'s lab infrastructure.
• Administer and maintain end user accounts, permissions, access rights and inventory.

What you\'ll bring

• Certified CCNA Network Engineer and working towards CCNP
• Min. 2 Years experience within a network support environment
• Must have been exposed to administering and upgrading Routers, Switches, and Firewalls
• Must be flexible (Participate in On-call Rota and occasional weekend working, and also be part of a shift pattern 0700hrs – 2000hrs Mon – Fri)
• Cisco and Cisco Meraki Switches and Access Points
• Must have working knowledge of ITIL processes (Change Management, Incident Management)

What you’ll gain

• Here at Opticore IT 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 Opticore IT 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
• Pension
• EV car, workplace nursery, tech, and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes
• Team & Company Social events

Diversity:

At Opticore IT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.