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Job Location drjobs

Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Minimum Requirements:

  • Five or more years related experience as a Senior Network Engineer or Network Administrator
  • Experience with Cisco IOS Extreme XOS and other router/switch/firewall operating systems
  • Strong Linux based system administration background (especially virtualisation containerisation and cloud platforms)
  • Understanding of switching services such as (but not limited to) STP VLAN QinQ COS Switch Stacking LACP and RSPAN.
  • Based on your designs deliver customer solutions to agreed timescales quality and budget operating with a high degree of technical autonomy and selfadministered technical project management.
  • Deep working knowledge of networking principles and technologies ideally with specific experience of core internet routing technologies and associated infrastructure
  • Knowledge of scripting languages (ideally Python/Bash)
  • Professional certification is advantageous (e.g. CCNA CCNP CCDP CCIE or equivalent) however industry experience is also considered
  • Designing Service Provider networks utilising BGP VXLAN/EVPN OSPF VRF MPLS etc.
  • Indepth understanding of communication protocols with advanced knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies
  • Experience of opensource log analysis configuration management and monitoring tools (e.g. ELK Graylog Ansible Rancid Nagios Icinga etc.)
  • Experience with network security and implement MANRS best practices according to standard

Responsibilities:

  • Design deploy support and maintain core network for Internet hosting business and support functions (office VPN etc.)
  • Thorough knowledge of IT infrastructure TCP/IP networking and information system security principles practices and technologies.
  • Research and analyse new network technologies as well as write proposals for upgrades of network infrastructure
  • Good analytical skills with the ability to document and present highly technical information in a coherent and informative manner
  • A passion for writing documentation and training other staff on operating platforms after they have been implemented
  • Work with wider sysadmin team on integrating network functions into service offering
  • Demonstrable; indepth technical expertise within an ICT environment consisting of extensive handson support and management of network infrastructure including routers switches firewalls load balancers and other related devices.
  • Monitor network performance and integrity with appropriate escalation paths set up
  • Thirdtier support of network issues
  • Automate network tasks and monitor their effectiveness; maintain technical documentation
  • Coach train and mentor team members on networking topics
  • Architecting deploying maintaining and scaling platforms
  • Create oversee and test network security measures
  • Write and implement networking protocols companywide and within department policies and procedures
  • Suggest improvements to network performance capacity and scalability
  • Participate in business continuity and disaster recovery infrastructure planning building and testing
  • Participate in the design engineering and delivery of IT projects
  • Be part of and support the wider system administrator team
  • Experience with containerization
  • Experience in automating with ansible other tools
  • Experience in administering and automating highly available Linuxbased platforms preferably in a virtualised environment
  • Proven ability and interest in picking up new technologies quickly leading evaluations and providing suggestions of key technologies to base future development around
  • An ability to explain and articulate technical detail clearly to technical management and developers
  • Experience with coding ideally backend services in PHP Python reasonable understanding of web technologies


Employment Type

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