Network Design Engineer - #145888

Job Description

Network Design Engineer

Location Stevenage (ST04)

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As a Network Design Engineer, you will contribute to this by working collaboratively in the project team and designing and implementing medium/large solutions and changes to enable services for our customer that are cost-effective.

We are looking for a Network Design Engineer to work on delivery opportunities taking place within the secure Defence and National Security sector. Your role will involve supporting the rollout of a sophisticated LAN Technical Refresh project involving take on and management of the customer network infrastructure. This includes understanding the business and technical requirements, acceptance of new equipment into service, and the retiring of older equipment with before and after reporting and analysis and issue investigation when required; technical design support, configuration work, supporting IT Health Checks, troubleshooting issues, and supporting the project team in its milestone deliverables.

Your Transferable Skills And Experience

• High Technical knowledge of networks, network security and their configuration and operational processes
• Minimum of two years commercial networking experience
• Strong, in-depth knowledge of networking technologies, i.e. LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, routing, switching and subnet addressing
• Strong in-depth knowledge of networking hardware, ideally from the Juniper family
• Experience of network implementation work
• Good network management, security and configuration understanding
• Working knowledge of ISDN, VPN, Broadband solutions
• Experience with network monitoring and troubleshooting tools
• Well-developed leadership, management and consulting skills.
  
  

Please note: It’s still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background in Network Design Engineer this could be the next opportunity for you.

This role requires candidates to be eligible and willing to undergo a high level of security clearance

Your Benefits

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work – employee discounts

Employee assistance programme / virtual GP

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of two stages of interviews.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our hybrid work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion

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