Overview

Role Title: Network Engineer
Location: Office - Barrow in Furness
Duration: 6 Months
Clearance: ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE
Rate: £400 per day - PAYE via Umbrella Only

Role Description:
The role requires the candidate to be a part of our Network Performance Monitoring team, delivering and maintaining monitoring toolsets to the client. Embedded within the client s Network Analysis team, the candidate will monitor the client networks for performance issues utilising our toolsets to assist in investigations and conduct deep-dive analysis. Therefore, there will be periods where these monitoring devices will require repair, replacement and new builds and deployment out in the field.

You will

• Perform Level 2/3 Network incident diagnostics/resolution.
• Network change & request implementation.
• Continue to strengthen and bolster your existing capabilities through a mix of professional training, certifications, and experiences.

Your skills and experience

• Network performance monitoring - using application-level traffic monitoring and also low level packet capture to diagnose network issues.
• Gather requirements, documentation of designs, installations and build documents.
• Software installation and server builds.
• Physical server installation (Data Centres).
• Generate scripts for automating functions and interfacing systems such as Rest API etc.
• Review and test new software versions in a lab/dev environment.
• Gain knowledge of networking concepts (Firewalls, VPN, load-balancing etc).
• Gain knowledge in network packet sniffing and SNMP monitoring tools.
• Build dashboards for SOC/NOC end users using the current toolsets.
• Prepare and deliver demonstrations of toolsets to clients.
• Utilise end user experience monitoring tools.
• An awareness of virtualisation and containerisation technologies, such as VMWare, Docker and their function Working knowledge of Windows and Linux based operating systems.
• Server and PC hardware fundamentals.
• Basic networking / TCP/IP.
• Appreciation of enterprise class networking e.g. Juniper, Cisco.
• Virtualization (VMWare) and containerisation.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PowerShell and BASH scripting.