Data Center Network Engineer – Automation

NEXTDC SDN. BHD.; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Volunteer days

Professional development

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

NEXTDC is looking for a hands-on network engineer to operate and continuously improve the IT and OT network estate across our data centres. You’ll take day-to-day ownership of configuration, troubleshooting and change execution in a Juniper, Fortinet, Ivanti, OpenGear and Aruba environment, working with Network, Security, OT and Facilities teams.

This is a core engineering role for someone who prefers solving problems at the CLI to escalating them.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in network engineering or operations in production enterprise or data center environments.
• Solid troubleshooting across multiple vendor platforms via CLI.
• Strong understanding of enterprise wireless, VPN and out-of-band management.
• Willingness to obtain JNCIA-MIST or JNCIA-SEC within 90 days.

Responsibilities

• Operating, configuring and troubleshooting switching, routing, firewalls, VPN and wireless across the IT and OT estate
• Owning standard changes and incident diagnosis, improving runbooks as you go
• Supporting incident and problem management, and identifying recurring risks
• Establishing core monitoring and logging: device onboarding, alert rules and dashboards
• Integrating monitoring with ITSM, CMDB and DCIM where possible
• Contributing to automation of repetitive tasks such as config backup, compliance checks and bulk changes

Skills

Network engineering

CLI troubleshooting

Wireless fundamentals

VPN understanding

Incident management

Education

JNCIA-MIST or JNCIA-SEC

Tools

Juniper

Fortinet

Ivanti

OpenGear

Aruba

Python

Ansible

Job description

NEXTDC is looking for a hands-on network engineer to operate and continuously improve the IT and OT network estate across our data centres. You’ll take day-to-day ownership of configuration, troubleshooting and change execution in a Juniper, Fortinet, Ivanti, OpenGear and Aruba environment, working with Network, Security, OT and Facilities teams.

This is a core engineering role for someone who prefers solving problems at the CLI to escalating them.