Network Engineer

Network Engineer required to join the IT Department of a well-known and public-facing critical national infrastructure business (circa 2000 staff, 20 in IT with approx. 40 sites in the UK), providing services to hundreds-of-thousands. You'll operate as part of a small, highly capable IT team supporting fairly complex Infrastructure and contributing to large-scale projects.

You'll initially be supporting a variety of projects detailed below, including assisting in resolving a number of security audit findings and closing off security vulnerabilities flagged up by a recent pen-test. You will also support the general administration and maintenance of network system and act as a 3rd line escalation point for tickets escalated up from the Service Desk.

Currently the role is split circa 50% Project vs 50% BAU support.

CCNA (or equivalent experience)

• Expert in setting up and maintaining VPNs

• General Firewall / Switch configuration; experience with both Cisco and HP Switches would be beneficial, as would any exposure to CheckPoint firewalls.

• Troubleshooting faulty sites - BT routers / Switch / Firewalls.

• Experience of Security Audit remediations would be beneficial; addressing vulnerabilities flagged by scanners (in this case, Tenable), and Pen tests.

• Production / maintenance of Network Diagrams (Visio)

• Solarwinds administration (or similar monitoring tool).

• Windows Server / VMWare Administration an advantage (not a requirement).