Job Title Senior Network Engineer

Job Description Pacific Life is investing in its global network and security to support its digital transformation journey. As such, we are searching for a Senior Network Engineer to help transform our network and to protect our customers and brand. The Network Engineer will design, implement, maintain, and support our growing network infrastructure. This person will also collaborate with our corporate security team to design and build security controls to protect our environment. The successful candidate will have served in a similar role in a Fortune 500 environment and would have significant experience in supporting global networks.

Responsibilities

Implement products, platforms, software, hardware, or appliance-based solutions related to network and network security.

Interface with management and vendors to develop and implement new solutions to meet business requirements.

Design and manage the rollout of various network infrastructures with a necessary capacity planning, performance tuning, and configuration optimization

Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations

Maintain network security across the global enterprise; analyze networks for security threats. Monitor organization’s networks for security breaches and investigate violations when they occur.

Use network tools for administration, maintenance, automation, and visualization reporting

Develops technical documentation describing the deployment, configuration, and management of network infrastructure.

Participates in IT security audits. Responds to existing audits and ensures required controls are implemented as required.

Builds strong relationships outside of IT to understand business needs. Communicates complex details in a way that people can understand. Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the products, empathizing with and understanding user needs.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in IT, configuring and installing various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)

Candidate must have advanced technical skills and experience with the following L2 and L3 protocols and technologies such as IPSec, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, VPC, QoS, 802.1x. Be familiar with Cisco IOS-XE and NXOS.

Candidate must be familiar with various platforms – Aruba, F5, Riverbed, Cisco (Catalyst, ISR, ASR, Nexus). Cisco ACI is a plus, Knowledge of Aruba ClearPass, SolarWinds, Juniper and HPE routing/switching equipment is a plus.

Must have an understanding of open-source and other tools to assist in monitoring, troubleshooting and performance analysis.

Must have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, attention to detail

One or more of the following certifications: Cisco CCNA, Cisco CCNP. Flexible schedule, including the ability to work nights and weekends

B.S/MS in Engineering and/or Computer Science or equivalent experience

This is a hybrid role with time working remotely, in office (Tower Bridge, London) and supporting data centers in Slough and Docklands. Therefore, close proximity to London and willingness to commute to London is a must.

There is a physical element to this job and the successful hire will be required to carry servers, run cables and work in a data center from time to time.

Working For Pacific Life Re Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees) Leave

25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days

Adoption and fertility leave

Generous enhanced parental leave

Healthcare

Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents

Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary

Optical benefits

Savings & Retirement

15% combined employee/employer contributions

Wellness

Subsidized gym membership

Access to Employee Assistance Program

Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Time off for volunteering

Charitable matching of employee donations

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

Pacific Life Re Values View our company values.

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