Job Reference: BBBH47476
Job Duration:
Start date: asap
Description:
Network Solutions Architect - Hybrid - up to £80,000 - Routing - Switching - Cisco - Firewalls - Juniper - Fortinet - BGP -OSPF - Meraki - Palo Alto - ASA - CCNP - CCNA - FSE - JNCIA
Role: Network Architect
Location: London /Hybrid
Salary: up to £80,000
Are you a Network Architect looking for the next step in your career?
Do you want the opportunity to work for a fast-growing and well established MSP?
Are you looking for a company that offers excellent progression and training?Then this may be the perfect role for you!
Role:
* Customer solution presales design, build & implementation, and documentation
* 3rd Line senior escalation point of contact
* Core network design, maintenance & documentation* Platform build and life cycle management, i.e. support contracts, end of life programme management
Responsibilities:
* Understand our clients' purpose, goals and objectives to produce solution designs that align to the customer's IT strategy and meet business needs, considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure, performance and resilience.
* Implementation, maintenance and development of core and datacentre systems, including:
* Hosting platforms
* Aggregation services
* Internet access
* Security best practices
* You can evolve and define governance and take responsibility for collaborating and supporting this concept in wider governance. You know how to assure services delivered by architects across sets of services.
* You can create, design and implement or integrate infrastructure technologies, solutions and services such as: core networking and aggregation technologies, physical infrastructure, both COTS and open source, virtual and cloud computing including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
* Oversee planning, development and implementation of projects, providing technical leadership to assigned engineers, often coordinating across multiple departments. Explaining what's required, overseeing project progress and ensuring timely delivery
* Research new technologies and solutions to ensure appropriate levels of assurance
*You know how to select appropriate design standards, to create templates methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and the integration of multiple systems and technology
* Ensure effective and efficient management of resources including staff where applicable. Support the development of more junior colleagues through mentoring and sharing knowledge.
* Make the complex simple when managing communication and describing the solution and progress to stakeholders. Provide the solutions team with presales support. Liaise with project management to produce accurate project plans.
* Providing stakeholders with post-installation feedback to ensure continuous improvement
Requirements (Desirable)
* Experience of owning complex network projects andsupport at a senior / technical lead level
* Extensive working experience on campus networks
* Experience of using major UKcarrier networks (BT, TTB Vodafone) in deploying FTTP & EAD services.
* Automation of tasks and workloads
* Knowledgeof one or more major network vendors, i.e. Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Extreme Networks.
* Deployment or knowledge of layer 3 MPLS VPN.
* Wireless deployments with a major vendor, i.e. Meraki, Unifi, Juniper.
Desirable
* Network Security Qualifications (CISSP, CISM)
* Juniper Networks Specialist level certifications e.g. JNCIS-Cloud, JNCIS-SEC or JNCIS-SP
* FortinetNSE Certification level 4+
* CCIE
This is an immediate requirement, therefore if you are anyone you know is interested, please forward your most up to date CV with contact details to Jack Bannister at for consideration.
Industry: IT
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + benefits
Salary Benefits: benefits
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Job Skills: -
Contact Name: Jack Bannister
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