Network & Firewall Engineer Job in London, England

Network & Firewall Engineer Job Description

Job Number: WPR01813
Location: London
Employment Type: Temporary / Contract

The Role

• Ongoing evaluation of business and technical requirements, seeking to develop the Network Architecture accordingly
• Play a supporting role in developing and advising other technical and business resources to develop commercial and migration plans, procedures and specifications
• Develop the technical design of network components including LAN, WAN, IP telephony, video and wireless.
• Assist with design and review of infrastructure solutions that are in line with company standards and meet operational principles
• Provide support to other team members, plan and schedule own work and ensure delivery within the constraints of time, budget and quality
• Assist and play a lead role in the commissioning of IP network infrastructure and overlaid services
• Support Application Streams to migrate/deploy solutions

• Provide technical direction in technical specialism, influencing strategy, creating and maintaining standards and best practice.
• Provide representation at technology wide forums
• Provide definition of deliverables with estimates to Projects
• Design, build, test and implementation of infrastructure solutions
• Define configuration standards
• Production, review and authorisation of technical and support documentation

• On-going evaluation of business and technical requirements, seeking to develop the Network Architecture accordingly
• Play a supporting role in developing and advising other technical and business resources to develop commercial and migration plans, procedures and specifications
• Develop the technical design of network components including . DataCentre Network, Network Security, and Application Delivery Controllers
• Assist with design and review of infrastructure solutions that are in line with company standards and meet operational principles
• Provide support to other team members, plan and schedule own work and ensure delivery within the constraints of time, budget and quality
• Assist and play a lead role in the commissioning of IP network infrastructure and overlaid services
• Support Application Streams to migrate/deploy solutions

• Provide technical direction in technical specialism, influencing strategy, creating and maintaining standards and best practice.
• Provide representation at technology wide forums
• Provide definition of deliverables with estimates to Projects
• Design, build, test and implementation of infrastructure solutions
• Define configuration standards
• Production, review and authorisation of technical and support documentation

• Technical Direction
• Maintain an expert level technical knowledge in the required technical areas and a broader specialist base as new technologies emerge
• Assist in the creation of designs and standards in your technical area and advise on best practice
• Assist and lead the deployment of Network Infrastructure and Application solutions
• Assist with development of strategy in your technical area

• Gather information to understand scope of project, and produce clear definition of technical deliverables with accurate estimates.
• Suggest appropriate options and recommend a chosen solution, including associated tasks (test strategies, etc) which meet operational principles
• Build and maintain a thorough understanding of the end to end design
• Produce, review and authorise technical and support documentation to a standard that will achieve sign-off from all necessary parties 
  Relationship Management
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and other technical authorities responsible for creating and maintaining standards in specialism
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with project, programme and delivery managers
• Effectively participate in project and technical meetings, representing both Infrastructure Projects Technical Services and your technical specialism
• Effectively engage with external parties, partners and suppliers 
  Planning, Monitoring and Control
• Assist in project planning by providing accurate estimates, continually reviewing forecasts and liaising with PMs to keep resource allocations up to date
• Produce regular highlight reports detailing progress / key issues on each project.
• Raise issues and risks in a timely manner to the project manager

Network & Firewall Engineer Job Requirements

Skills & Experience

• Experience working in financial services organisations
• Experience of design and delivery of secure solutions meeting PCI-DSS requirements
• Experience of designing Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) deployments
• Experience in design, build and implementation of corporate size local and wide area networks.
• Professional accreditation preferred in relevant technical disciplines – (e.g., Cisco CCNP/CCIE or Juniper JNCIP/ JNCIE)
• Proven ability to plan and execute workload in a dynamic environment

• Recognised knowledge of business critical systems
• Proven ability in the design and implementation of complex IP network solutions
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex network faults
• (Essential) In-depth understanding of Layer-2 networks including 10GE, PVST, LACP, vPC
• (Essential) Understanding of Layer-3 networks including IP, OSPF, BGP, BFD
• (Essential) Experience with ,Cisco switches (Cisco Nexus), firewalls (Juniper SRX),
• Load-Balancers (F5 LTM/GTM)
• (Desirable) Knowledge of other related products:, Fortinet Fortigate and Fortimanager, Cisco ASA, SourceFire IDS, F5 ASM, Citrix Branch Repeater
• Knowledge of other related protocols and solutions: DNS, AD, DHCP, QoS, SNMP
• Knowledge of cabling media, industry standards and associated interfaces
• Knowledge of Network Management Platforms

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