Experienced Network Engineer

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Primary Tasks:

• Tier 2 and 3 network support. Mostly remote support of 2 datacentres with some travel to sites in Corsham Farnborough Milton Keynes Bicester and Waddington.

• Troubleshooting complex network issues including raising tickets with vendors if required.

• Planning and implementation of upgrades and hardware refresh with some out-of-hours and weekend work required.

• Liaising with other functional teams in Infrastructure and application teams.

• Participation in a shift pattern covering 7AM 7PM Monday to Friday.

• Hybrid working based in Bristol.

• On-call support 1 week in 3.

Key Skills:

• Cisco ACI

  • Configuration of switching fabric (multi-pod spine-leaf architecture) tenants application profiles EPGs (Endpoint Groups) and contract management.

  • Experience with Cisco Nexus 9000 switches.

  • Ability to use Ansible (playbooks/roles) Python and REST APIs to automate network configurations and policy enforcement.

  • Experience using Cisco APIC SNMP and telemetry tools to diagnose issues.

• ASA / Firepower

  • In-depth experience with Cisco ASA and Firepower to manage firewall policies ACLs and NAT configurations.

  • Managing high-availability by setting up Active/Standby or Active/Active modes configuring failover interfaces monitoring via CLI/ASDM and managing failover criteria.

• Catalyst IOS XE

  • Solid knowledge of OSPF BGP NAT VLANs and Layer 2/3 technologies (Spanning Tree EtherChannel).

  • Proficiency in configuring Site-to-Site VPNs (IPsec)using ASDM and CLI.

• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager

  • Proficient in setting up Virtual Servers Pools Nodes and Profiles (TCP HTTP SSL).

  • Ability to write and troubleshoot TCL-based iRules for custom traffic routing and manipulation.

  • Managing certificate installation SSL profiles and offloading encryption to reduce server load.

  • Configuring device groups failover scenarios and synchronization.

• General networking skills

• • Experience using tools like Xabbix SolarWinds or Splunk for network monitoring / troubleshooting.

  • In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP DNS DHCP and ICMP.

  • Use of Wireshark andpacket-tracercommands to diagnose connectivity issues.

  • Managing configuring and supporting Infoblox Core Network Services (DNS DHCP and IPAMcommonly known as DDI)

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