Network Engineer Advanced English

We are looking for candidates to work in collaboration with the UK Network Team.

The Network Team are at the core of the Banks technology and play a critical role in the successful delivery of products and services to our customers.

We are a highly motivated skilled and dedicated group of individuals who work together to deliver and support marketleading technology solutions

These candidates will be joining an IT Network team located in Lisbon Malaga Madrid or Cantabria that works together with Santander UK.

We are expecting team players who want to grow together not only technically but also knowing the business

You can be dedicated or you may be asked to float between these two workstreams:

Replace and upgrade Network Hardware across critical Layer 3 devices within our R4 Network

28 x L3 Devices to replace and upgrade

All supporting Nexus 7k 9k

Support Firewall Obsolescence Teams who are migrating and upgrading Physical Infrastructure and services to new target Infra

Multiple Juniper/Checkpoint Migrations to new Hardware (Firewall migrations completed by a separate Team)

Interface/VLAN provisioning

Cutover support

F5 experience as new services will be required to support migrations

Excellent attention to detail in creating technical runbooks

For both of them take in consideration that:

Monday Friday 95

Additional hours required to support changes

Tasks

Managing multiple integrated network topologies.

Delivering both traditional and cloud native network architecture & solutions.

Reporting on critical network compliance and availability.

Ensuring processes and procedures are followed.

Analysing data through troubleshooting and capacity planning

Requirements

Mandatory skills

3 years of experience
CCNP or above in Routing & Switching. (OSPF BGP STP)

Advanced experience support Nexus NXOS 7k 9k Switches

Proven experience troubleshooting F5 Big IP Big IQ LTM GTM config upgrades v13 and above.

Logical network diagnostic approach to faults and problems.

Confident troubleshooting knowledge using TCP Dumps PCAP files.

Working knowledge of security network technologies including firewall proxy IPS WAF VPN MS office documentation and organisational skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have skills

Understanding of Checkpoint NSX Distributed Firewalls.

Experience with Nokia QIP or Infoblox IPAM.

Experience with IBM Netcool Monitoring & Compliance tooling.

Dynatrace diagnostics

Some Spanish Knowledge

A large enterprise consisting of traditional and software defined WAN Campus and Data Centre network infrastructure across Private and Public domains.

A hybrid of network technology operating systems supporting high throughput workloads across the organisation and to our customers 24/7 365.

As part of the role you may be asked to participate in the 24/7 Technical On Call Rota as well as working out of hours to support changes.