Network Engineering Senior Associate Operate

Industry/Sector

Specialism

Management Level

Job Description & Summary

Focused on relationships you are building meaningful client connections and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations you are growing your personal brand deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity you are comfortable when the path forward isnt clear you ask questions and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills knowledge and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives needs and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance) the Firms code of conduct and independence requirements.

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Go-To-Market:

Managed Services

Sector:

Not Applicable

Programme Type:

Experienced

Additional Responsibilities: (This field may be used to describe the daily role duties and/or purpose of this Job Profile/Job Description. The field is limited to 500 characters including spaces.)

The Network Engineer is responsible for designing implementing and optimizing the organizations data communications networks. You will partner with IT architects security teams and application owners to deliver scalable resilient and secure LAN WAN and cloudbased network solutions. This role blends handson configuration with strategic planning capacity forecasting and automation.

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelors

Degree Preferred:

Bachelors or masters in science Computer Science Engineering

Minimum Years of Experience: 4 -8 year(s)

Certifications Required:

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP Enterprise) or Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
Juniper Networks Certified Professional (JNCIP-ENT)
AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty or Azure Network Engineer Associate
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or CompTIA Security

Certifications Preferred:

Required / Mandatory Knowledge/Skills: (character count limit 5000) *PLEASE ONLY USE THIS FIELD IF THIS IS A MUST HAVE SKILL FOR APPLICANT*

Design and deploy network solutions LAN WAN SD-WAN wireless (Wi-Fi 6/6E) data center fabrics and cloud networking (AWS Azure GCP)

Configure and maintain routing protocols (OSPF BGP EIGRP) VLANs VRFs multicast MPLS and QoS policies

Manage network security controls firewalls VPNs (site-to-site client VPN) IDS/IPS NAC and secure remote access

Implement high-availability architectures using redundancy protocols (HSRP/VRRP) load balancers and clustering technologies

Monitor network performance with tools like SolarWinds PRTG NetScout or equivalent; analyze logs and SNMP/flow data to troubleshoot latency or packet-loss issues

Develop and maintain network diagrams IP addressing schemes configuration standards and runbooks

Lead network capacity planning performance tuning and technology refresh projects

Automate network provisioning configuration backups and compliance audits using Python Ansible Terraform or similar tools

Collaborate on cloud-native networking projects: VPC/VNet design transit gateways Direct Connect/VPN integrations and service mesh connectivity

Participate in incident response root-cause analysis and post-mortems for network outages or security incidents

Evaluate new networking technologies (SDN intent-based networking Wi-Fi advancements) and provide recommendations for adoption

Provide Level-2/3 support mentor junior engineers and liaise with vendors or third-party integrators as needed

Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or equivalent work experience
3 years of hands-on network engineering in medium to large enterprise or service provider environments
Strong proficiency with Cisco (IOS/XE/ NX-OS) Juniper (Junos) Aruba or equivalent vendor platforms
Deep understanding of TCP/IP suite spanning tree variants IP multicast MPLS and VPN architectures
Experience with network security concepts: stateful firewalls IDS/IPS SSL inspection and zero-trust segmentation
Familiarity with network automation and Infrastructure as Code (Python Ansible Terraform REST APIs)
Solid grasp of cloud networking services (AWS VPC Transit Gateway Azure Virtual WAN Google Cloud Interconnect)
Excellent analytical troubleshooting and documentation skills
Effective verbal and written communication; ability to explain complex network issues to technical and non-technical audiences
Willingness to be on-call for escalations and occasional travel to data centers or branch locations

Preferred Knowledge/Skills: (character count limit 5000)* PLEASE MAKE THIS A BULLETED LIST WHERE EACH SENTENCE STARTS WITH THE SAME VERB TENSE (I.E. PROVIDES DEVELOPS FACILITATES ETC.)

Following are some of the key tools that the candidate should have experience with

Aruba Palo Alto Firewall Fortinet Cisco ASA Palo Alto Prisma Access Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager Palo Alto Coretex XSOAR Elisity Claroty Medigate. F5 Local Balancers (GTM and LTM) Akamai Alkira Cloud AWS Azure GCP Beyond Trust PRA (Privileged Remote Access) Infoblox DNS/DHC/IPAM/GTM Meraki Ciena MCP

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