Senior Network Engineer (Cisco)

NielsenIQ; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consumer intelligence company seeks a Senior Network Engineer to design and manage networks across its enterprise. The role demands extensive technical expertise in Cisco hardware and strong analytical skills to ensure optimal performance. Join a diverse and inclusive team at NIQ and contribute to the future of consumer insights.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Volunteer time off

LinkedIn Learning

Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a network engineer.
• 3+ years in a senior network engineer role.
• Experience with ITIL practices and Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage enterprise networks.
• Monitor network performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Provide guidance to junior team members.

Skills

Cisco network hardware

Network protocols and standards

Network automation

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Cisco Certified Network Professional Routing and Switching (CCNP)

Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert Routing and Switching (CCIE)

Tools

Ansible

Cisco DNA Center

Solarwinds

Wireshark

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Company Description

NIQ is the world's leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights-delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms-NIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world's population.

Job Description

The Senior Network Engineer's role within the global network team is to design, build, implement and manage networks across the enterprise. This includes planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting and optimising all network hardware and data circuits. This person will also manage network incident and change queues, troubleshoot network performance issues, as well as analyse network traffic and provide capacity planning guidance and solutions.

Design & Planning

• Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards in support of network procurement and development efforts
• Perform network design and capacity planning
• Develop and maintain network standards that comply with NIQ network security policy
• Develop and implement policies for network asset management, including network maps, hardware inventories and related documentation
• Plan and implement any improvement, modification, or replacement of network infrastructure components
• Provide DDI (DHCP, DNS and IPAM) expertise and support
• Identify and deploy tools to test network performance and provide network performance metrics and reports

Operational Management

• Monitor and analyse network performance across the organization's WAN, LANs, and wLAN deployments, providing performance metrics and reports as required, and identifying/remediating network performance bottlenecks
• Configure, manage and upgrade as appropriate all network hardware and equipment, including routers, switches and wireless access points
• Network asset management, including maintenance of network toolsets, maps, hardware inventories and related documentation
• Day to day management of the network utilizing IaC (Infrastructure as Code) methodologies
• Recommend, schedule, and perform network improvements, upgrades, and repairs
• Provide guidance to junior members of the team

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on technical knowledge of Cisco network hardware, network protocols and standards
• Strong analytical skills, able to investigate faults and complex network issues and perform cause analysis
• Expertise with network automation tools including Ansible, Python, Nautobot, Jason, Cisco DNA Center
• Experience with network management, monitoring and analysis tools including Solarwinds, Netflow, Telemetry, Wireshark and ThousandEyes
• Keen stakeholder management, able to begin projects by identifying stakeholders, understanding roles in the project, identifying project-related expectations, and, relative to other stakeholders, confirming common expectations while resolving expectations that are in conflict
• Documentation authoring skills in order to both update existing documentation and to create detailed handover documents on completion of any network projects
• Ability to prioritise effectively and execute tasks in high-pressure situations
• Ability to present complex technical information to non-technical audiences

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years' experience as a network engineer
• Minimum of 3 years' experience as a senior network engineer in a team-leadership position, or technical subject matter expert in one or more network areas
• Working in dispersed, global teams
• Experience of working in an ITIL environment and be familiar with standard ITIL practices e.g. Incident, Change, Problem, Continual Service Improvement etc.
• Experience of working within The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, methodology would be desirable
• The ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with other technical teams, including internal infrastructure teams and external service providers, vendors and partners
• Experience mentoring and providing leadership to junior team members would be desirable
• Experience of working with Equinix Service Provider and Equinix ECX (Cloud Exchange Services) would be desirable

Certifications:

A current certification in the following is required:

• Cisco Certified Network Professional Routing and Switching (CCNP) certification

A current certification in either of the following is desirable:

• Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert Routing and Switching (CCIE) certification

• Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Centre (CCNP) certification

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world's leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights-delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms-NIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world's population.

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