Network Engineer

OpticoreIT Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist IT consultancy in Central London is seeking a Network Operations Engineer. This hybrid role requires strong routing and switching knowledge and CCNA certification. You will support managed service clients, diagnose network issues, and work closely with a team of engineers. The company emphasizes learning and offers various training opportunities. Benefits include a competitive salary, private healthcare, and social events.

Benefits

Competitive Salary & discretionary bonus

23 days holiday + bank holidays

Private healthcare & dental

Pension

EV car and cycle-to-work schemes

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years experience in a network support environment.
• Exposure to administering and upgrading Routers, Switches, and Firewalls.
• Must be flexible and participate in an on-call rota.

Responsibilities

• Work in the Network Operations Centre as a 2nd line Network Support Engineer.
• Diagnose and solve 2nd line problems with limited supervision.
• Monitor ticket queues and prioritize work as necessary.

Skills

CCNA

Network Support

Troubleshooting

Palo Alto Firewalls

Cisco & Cisco Meraki Switches

ITIL Processes

Education

CCNA Certification

Working towards CCNP

Tools

Network Monitoring Tools

Job description

Opticore IT are currently searching for Network Operations Engineer who is 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, 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 will 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, ID 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 will 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.)
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Cisco and Cisco Meraki Switches and Access Points
• Must have working knowledge of ITIL processes (Change Management, Incident Management)

What you will 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\u2019re 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\u2019s 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

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.