Network Engineer x2

SUMMARY:
Our Logistics client in the East of Johannesburg is looking to grow their network team with 2 Network Engineers that has solid experience implementing VPNs, SD-WANs, MPLS, SSL VPNs, WLANs, etc. You also need good working knowledge of Cisco, Fortinet, Pulse Secure, Aruba, VMware, and Microsoft Azure technologies.

POSITION INFO:
Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree/Diploma in Information Technology or Computer Science,
• Fortinet NSE 6
• CCNP / ARUBA ACP
• Azure Networking - Advantage
• Management of operations on environment with clustering, replication, load balancer
• ITIL Practitioner (V3) / ITIL Specialist (V4)
• ISO 27000, other IT security Training
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in IT
• Experience in supporting and maintaining Networks and Firewalls
• FortiGate / Fortinet
• Cisco
• Aruba
• Extensive experience implementing VPNs, SD-WANs, MPLS, SSL VPNs, WLANs, etc.
• Extensive experience with network equipment virtualization and cloud issues.
• Extensive experience with Cisco, Fortinet, Pulse Secure, Aruba, VMware, and Microsoft Azure technologies.
• Ability to Manage a Technical Project

• Assist IT departments in resolving issues with their network equipment (routers, firewalls, comprehension boxes, etc.)
• Provide quality support, particularly by explaining to your contacts the origin of their problem and the appropriate resolution practices
• Enhance our knowledge base by updating the documentation of operating procedures and instructions;
• Ensure firmware upgrades for network equipment
• Independently manage site infrastructure transformation projects in compliance with client standards and best practices in terms of network architecture
• Perform network compliance audits and ensure the security and high availability of the client's infrastructure are maintained
• Adhere to client-defined SLAs and monitor them with your manager.
• Design of the IT network infrastructure (WAN, MAN, LAN) of the organisation entities, across the entire scope:
• Technically translates the functional needs of the group.
• Builds and maintains the standards and principles of architecture.
• Based on the strategies and needs of the business departments
• Ensure capacity planning for IT Infrastructure
• Manage IT Hardware resources
• Guarantee the availability and quality of data by maintaining and improving performance ("tuning") and functionalities (by improving their automation, optimizing processing and queries, settings, etc.).
• Management of scalabilities (volume monitoring, etc.) on the data access aspect.
• Administer user access permissions and data security issues with the security engineer.
• Manage version migrations.
• Follow up on monitoring tools and study all incidents that have occurred to understand their severity and origins.
• Participation in the architecture projects of new projects, implementation:
• Participates in the evaluation of projects.
• For all new projects or new technologies, participates and monitors the evaluation of the impact of the change.
• Monitoring of network infrastructure deployments