Senior Network Architect

Cubic; Stockton-on-Tees; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job description

Business Unit: Cubic Transportation Systems Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com. Job Details:

As part of the Cubic Transportation Services IT Team, you will bring a wealth of Network Architecture knowledge and experience to a team responsible for the full lifecycle management of the Network Infrastructure that underpins the systems and solutions that Cubic provides to high profile and demanding clients such as Transport for London and Irish Rail.

Working alongside Infrastructure Architects and Competency Leads, the role of the Network Architect is to create detailed design documents for internal and external network, security and connectivity requirements.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Ownership of translating business or client requirements into a cost effective, fit for purpose network design.
2. As part of a project team, guide implementation engineers to transition designs into operation.
3. Act as a point of escalation and assist in the resolution of complex network related incidents.
4. Define technical strategy and procedures for the design and support of network infrastructure.
5. Work to standardise and simplify the existing network infrastructure where possible.
6. Work with and bring together cross-disciplined technical resources to form effective technical project teams, managing and influencing these resources to ensure fit for purpose solutions are delivered.
7. Work closely with customers, suppliers, third parties and internal engineering departments to ensure the existing network infrastructure remains supportable and performs to requirements.
8. Ensure network change communications and procedures within the Cubic change control framework are adhered to.
9. Oversee the installation and commissioning of all network infrastructure including switches, routers, firewalls and load balancers.
10. Habitually review working practices and performance with a view to improving processes, procedures, and general levels of service, ultimately engendering a "continuous improvement" culture resulting in enhanced customer experience and company profitability.
11. Participate in solution design for bid and proposal efforts to ensure fit for purpose and cost-effective Network Infrastructure solutions are included.
12. Collaborate with Engineering, IT and Test Teams to determine how best to leverage tools and techniques involving infrastructure as code, configuration management and other DevOps-type techniques to improve delivery quality, speed and experience.
13. Create, update and maintain system design documentation including High and Low level designs.
14. In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by the Supervisor/Manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.
15. The candidate may be required to work on other Cubic or customer sites.
16. Support project deployments and critical incidents with out of hours working as required.
17. Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

We are looking for an experienced professional with an impressive track record of achieving challenging business goals and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.

The post holder should exhibit experience and skills in the majority of these areas:

Telephony Skills:

1. Knowledge of Cisco Call Manager V15 in particular:
   • Knowledge of SIP trunks
   • Routing patterns
   • Route lists
   • Route groups
   • Users & Directories
   • Extension Mobility
   • Hunt groups
   • Bulk data Import and Export
2. Manipulation of .csv files
3. Knowledge of Perl
4. Knowledge of mySQL databases
5. Knowledge of Cisco voice gateway configuration
6. Knowledge of Cisco CUBE configuration

Networking Skills:

1. As part of a project team, assist other network engineers to transition designs into operation.
2. Act as a point of escalation and assist in the resolution of network related incidents.
3. Work with and assist other TS and Cubic technical resources to ensure fit for purpose solutions are delivered.
4. Work closely with customers, suppliers and third parties and internal engineering departments to ensure the existing network infrastructure remains supportable and performs to requirements.
5. Ensure network change communications and procedures within the Cubic and TS change control framework are adhered to.
6. Oversee the installation and commissioning of network infrastructure including switches, routers and firewalls.
7. To run and assist with Factory and Site testing of new networking equipment and systems.
8. Create, update and maintain network design documentation and drawings.
9. Support project deployments and critical incidents with out of hours working as required.
10. The candidate may be required to work on other Cubic or customer sites.
11. Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.

Worker Type: Employee