Data Communications Network Engineer
Data Communications Network Engineer
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Job Description
We are currently recruiting for a Data Communications Network Engineer on behalf of a leading SATCOMS company. The Engineer will complement the current team to support preventive maintenance troubleshooting and management of the life cycle of the equipment maintaining the correct software release as agreed and verified with TN Service Engineering. Moreover the Engineer is required to monitor activities of the Data Communications Network (DCN) and other network duties.
Key responsibilities of the position:
- Provide second level support for Transport Network (TN) activities and participate in testand maintaining the operational documents up to date.
- Provide TN expertise in the enhancement of operational systems.
- Ensure all network devices that are under the group are proactively monitored.
- As part of the team support in the daily monitoring of DCN and investigation of any issues to a conclusion
- Provide support on DCN related issues to the realtime Operations in the NOC and NCC SAS sites DPs and third parties and escalate to Service Engineering when required
- Be part of the team that provides oncall support for the DCN
- Network / System Troubleshooting as required
- Ticket monitoring and regular appropriate updates
- Ownership of the assigned tasks
- Other general duties as required
- The post will require some travel to our clients remote offices and work outside the normal working hours to complete activity in the system maintenance windows.
Essential Knowledge and skills:
- University degree level education or equivalent in Computer Science / Data Communications.
- Hold a minimum certification of Juniper JNCIS or CISCO CCNP or Palo Alto PCCSA or equivalent practical experience and expertise above this level obtained in a network securityrelated role.
- Experience in working in a network environment configuring monitoring and troubleshooting routers switches firewalls servers and monitoring devices.
- Proven experience in implementing and monitoring Secure Networks
- Have good knowledge of Palo Alto Panorama Cisco ASA and FTD Firewalls with exposure to context and dynamic routing protocols.
- Proven experience in routing technologies OSPF BGP MPLS VPN technologies QOS and VRFs (min. CCNP level skills)
- A proven expert in configuring network switches with experience of VLANs RSTP etc.
- Experienced in configuring network monitoring tools like Stable Net Solarwinds IPERF PerfSonar Cisco IP SLA AlgoSec Qradar would be advantageous
- Generally proficient in Windows and Linux / Solaris computer systems to systems administratorlevel with scripting knowledge
- Knowledge of ancillary network tools like cisco ISE Radius DNS and other monitoring/troubleshooting tools like Wireshark would be advantageous
- Knowledge of Ticketing systems (ServiceNow advantageous)
- Fluent with Microsoft Office components especially Visio
Employment Type
Full Time
