Network Engineer - Cape Town

 

Recruiter:

Telebest

Job Ref:

CTT000285/Lee

Date posted:

Monday, May 23, 2022

Location:

Capetown, South Africa


JOB SUMMARY:
Our large client is looking to hire a Network Engineer to join their team.
This role will own and maintain all routing, switching, and wireless infrastructure including installation and support of hardware, upgrades and patching. The scope of the role includes our 8 data centres and over 20 sites across 3 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

You will work as part of an agile international team dealing with new solutions daily as well as supporting the 20,000 seat operations.

Our client is exclusively a Cisco house employing technologies like Umbrella, Identity Service Engine, DUO, FirePower Threat Defence, SD-WAN as well as more traditional routing and switching architectures.

Here you will get an opportunity to develop your career by working on innovative projects, within a fantastic team where individual and team effort are recognised.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

  • Certification essential to Cisco Certified Network Professional or equivalent
  • 10+ years’ experience working in network engineering
  • Good knowledge of Cisco VRF lite, BGP, EIGRP and OSPF
  • Good knowledge of Firewall configurations and NGF set up.
  • Ideally knowledge of Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, Cisco ISE, Cisco Umbrella and Azure Cloud Networking
  • Good troubleshooting methodology
  • Exceptional time management and organisational skills
  • Ability to work under pressure without losing sight of priorities
  • Strong attention to detail as well as excellent analytical and numerate skills
  • Ability to multi-task and work on own initiative, and delegate decision making where appropriate
  • Results focused and committed to high personal standards and a desire to achieve

Main Accountabilities:
  • Implement, monitor, and maintain documented network topologies to ensure optimal system performance and access in a 24/7/365 environment.
  • Work with third party network service providers ensuring that agreed service levels are met providing escalation as appropriate.
  • Proactively identify business technology gaps and look to exploit opportunities through the adoption of new practices and network technologies
  • Support the business out of normal working hours as part of an on-call network team to ensure service availability of critical systems across 3 countries
  • Support our clients network technologies on sites and partners premises
  • Develop and maintain regular plans to support vendor releases for network hardware, operating systems, and software.
  • Ensure network services are maintained, reviewing capacity, and availability (e.g. bandwidth, switchports, cables, and connectivity)
  • Manage and maintain network monitoring tools, reviewing network performance and reports and troubleshoot performance problems
  • Install, configure, and manage network devices, security appliances.
  • Assist with security risk analyses to identify network vulnerabilities and generate intrusion prevention and detection reports, remediating any issues found
  • Respond to incidents and security breaches providing root cause analysis and any subsequent action required to prevent reoccurrence.
If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge, apply immediately with your full CV to leeander.

Should you not receive a response within 10 days, please regard your application as unsuccessful.

 

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