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Network Engineer
Employer Description
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd is a private company headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford UK with satellite offices in New York Boston San Francisco Singapore Abu Dhabi Shanghai Beijing and a broader commercial presence that includes Japan Germany France and India. The company sells to nearly 100 countries and is in a period of rapid growth.
Oxford Nanopore employs around 1000 employees from multiple disciplines including nanopore science molecular biology and applications informatics engineering electronics manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
Oxford Nanopores sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights) in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.
Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing by anyone anywhere. We offer real-time nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing technology: accessible easy to use and fully scalable for any requirement.
Job Description
Working in our IT Networks team as part of the wider Infrastructure team the successful candidate will be responsible for supporting managing and maintaining all aspects of the global network infrastructure ensuring the best possible uptime and availability to support the business customers goals and growth.
Other responsibilities include:
Plan build and deliver new network capabilities and deployments from standards and design documents to meet the needs of the business.
Maintaining network security through proper configuration of firewalls wireless access points and VPN.
Contributing to HLD/LLD documents for the network roadmap.
Maintaining multi-site network operations to support internal applications operating systems including regular maintenance with both private and public facilities.
Creating and maintaining documentation and network diagrams
Full lifecycle management of network devices as well as support and development of network management and monitoring systems.
Performing regular preventative maintenance tasks such as capacity management and software updates.
What Were Looking For...
In this role youll need to interact and engage with other teams and explain technical issues to non-technical staff. As such were looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who can develop and maintain productive working relationships. Youll also have good organisational skills the ability to handle multiple projects and work items and a keen attention to detail. If you hold any certifications this would be a bonus.
Well also expect you to have the following experience knowledge and skills:
Strong experience of monitoring and maintaining enterprise network architectures (LAN WAN WiFi and Data Centre).
Strong technical experience managing supporting and optimising:
oEnterprise and data centre routing and switching including VLANs STP GBP and OSPF.
oNetwork security architectures firewalls VPN and IDS/IPS.
Experience working with WAN providers and fibre network infrastructure including DIA SDWAN wavelength and dark fibre circuits.
Understanding of VPN technologies including security and cryptographic standards.
Experience of data centre power cooling and cabling standards including ethernet and fibre optic networks.
Experience of managing and maintaining network monitoring systems.
Network access control systems and protocols such as AAA RADIUS 802.1x.
DHCP DNS and IPAM and SSL/PKI technologies.
Exposure to cloud networking (integration with and design of).
Excellent customer service and diagnostic and troubleshooting skills.
Ideally youll also have:
Systems administration experience within a mixed Windows Linux physical and virtual environment including IP address schemes DHCP DNS.
Good understanding of technology solutions beyond networking.
Exposure to a range of different networking vendors and solutions.
AWS or other Cloud network experience.
Experience in scripting automation or orchestration deployment tools.
Understanding of information security principals e.g. ISO 27001.
As well as technical skills you should be able to foster strong working relationships within the team and be a motivated self-starter with a positive and customer-focused attitude.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a persons gender marital status race religion colour age disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Load Balancing
- Routing Protocols
- Network Administration
- Network Engineering
- BGP
- LAN
- Computer Networking
- IPsec
- OSPF
- Cisco ASA
- Juniper
- MPLS
About Company
Oxford Nanopore’s goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology enabling the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis ... View more
