La Fosse Associates Limited

Role: Network & Security Engineer
Salary: Up to £62,000 + Oncall + Benefits
Location: Hybrid Working (2 Days a week in London Office)

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for the stability and availability of the network infrastructure, including failover test/disaster recovery procedures.
• Responsible for network security, monitoring and reporting.
• Implement best practice for all network configurations inc Firewall configurations.
• Involvement in network team projects.
• Troubleshoot technical issues across varied technologies, taking ownership of issues and seeing them through to resolution. Interact with internal stakeholders and third parties to resolve escalated technical problems and requests.
• Be involved in various other Infrastructure projects, providing network advice.
• Recommend/implement network hardware and software upgrades.
• Perform required maintenance and upgrades, often out of normal business hours and weekends.
• On an out-of-hours support rota for troubleshooting/resolving issues.
• Translate complex networking technologies/design/issues to those with less technical/networking knowledge.
• Proactively share knowledge with peers, including through design, support and incident management documentation.
• Maintain knowledge from the industry around trends and emerging technologies.

Knowledge & experience Qualifications:

• CCNA R&S and one of CCNP R&S, CCNP SP/CCIP, CCNP Security/CCSP, or CCDP.
• CCNP Voice/Collaboration. Knowledge & Experience
• Strong routing knowledge including, but not limited to OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, and VRFs. Troubleshooting all of these routing protocols.
• Strong LAN/L2 skills including, but not limited to VLANs, 802.1Q, STP, WCCP, 802.1x, VXLAN.
• Strong support/administration of Cisco wireless technologies - WLC and LWAP APs, AirOS and Catalyst 9800.
• Strong support/administration of Cisco WAN overlay technologies: FlexVPN, DMVPN, and GETVPN. Knowledge of Cisco SDWAN.
• Strong support/administration experience with Checkpoint Firewalls.
• Strong support/administration experience with Cisco Firewalls: ASA in multi context; remote access configurations (eg SecureClient); and FTD with FMC.
• Strong support/administration experience with Cisco IPT - Cisco Communications Manager. Experience with Jabber/MRA/Expressway advantageous.
• Good understanding of QoS and bandwidth management within the WAN and LAN environments.
• Excellent understanding and support of Cisco Router and switch hardware and appliances ISE, WLC, ASA.
• Knowledge of Cisco UCS.
• Knowledge of datacenter technologies and best practices, inc Nexus 9k and ACI.
• Hybrid cloud implementation, in particular AWS, Direct Connect