Senior Network Engineer

SUMMARY:
Our retail client based in Cape Town is seeking to employ a technically proficient Senior Network Engineer who is able to understand a complex data network environment.

POSITION INFO:

Your daily tasks include, but not limited to:

• Hands on WAN and LAN support
• Provide management and advice on future network strategy and technologies.
• Provide technical input at a very detailed level around network / wireless faults and be able to liaise with external vendors to drive solutions.
• Make use of monitoring tools to pre-empt possible outages
• Take lead role in troubleshooting any IT Infrastructure issues.
• Project Management of network and datacentre related initiatives.
• Patch management strategy.
• Creating accurate management reporting information.
• Forecasting the growth in infrastructure requirements.
• Service availability using monitoring and alerting tools.
• High availability strategy.
• Scalability and capacity planning.
• Improve and optimise current infrastructure implementations.
• Document designs, specifications and implementations.

To be considered, you MUST have:

Must have 8+ years’ experience at senior network engineer level.

Essential skills:

• Excellent Cisco Datacentre core (Nexus) switching and routing skills.
• Cisco Catalyst, Aruba wireless and switching.
• Excellent security skills.
• Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).
• Voice over IP (VoIP).
• Sound Routing protocol knowledge and setup – OSPF, BGP, EIGRP
• OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP)
• IP addressing and subnetting.
• Sound VLAN knowledge and configuration.
• Cloud network integration experience.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills

Beneficial if you have experience in managing datacentres. 

• Able to provide input and have knowledge on Power (UPS and Generator), HVAC, Fire suppression and Hot Isle containment configurations.
• Provide input and knowledge of structured cabling infrastructure.

Kindly submit a detailed CV and skills matrix to garth.kearns@------ for consideration.  No application will be considered without these documents.

Should you not receive any communciation within 10 days, please regard your application as unsuccessful.

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