Senior Network Engineer

Davies Turner have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Network Engineer to join their IT Infrastructure department based at their Head Office in Coleshill in what will be an exciting and challenging period for the infrastructure team.

Location: Coleshill

Department: IT

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 (subject to experience)

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

About Us:

Davies Turner Plc is a British based multimodal freight forwarder specialising in logistics, e-commerce and warehousing. As one of the largest independent freight forwarding companies in the UK, we manage freight from around the world, by road and rail, through the air and across the oceans. The business remains family owned and was founded in 1870 with 18 branches across the U.K. Our turnover is in excess of £250 million and rapidly growing with nearly 1,000 colleagues.

Senior Network Engineer - The Role:

Working as a Senior Network Engineer, the ideal applicant will have experience in working with various networking technologies and IT environments that will require an understanding of their function. There are a number of substantial networking projects in the near future (SDWAN, new sites, migrations) that will require a level of expertise to facilitate and implement.

We are looking for someone with substantial networking knowledge, troubleshooting skills and a willingness to expand their current knowledge in the areas required. Training will be provided where necessary.

This role is based at Coleshill, North Warwickshire and will also include travel to our other sites when required.

Senior Network Engineer – Key Responsibilities:

- Management and development of the LAN / WAN environment across the Group

- Monitor performance and provide improvements across the network infrastructure

- Develop and maintain documentation sets relating to areas covered by the role

- Provide ‘weekly/monthly’ reporting of both SLA and performance of the networking infrastructure

- Vulnerability / Patch Management and Reporting of LAN / WAN infrastructure

- Work within the team to provide support to other areas of the infrastructure where appropriate

- Contribute to On-Call support requirements (average 3 nights per month)

- Provide escalation support where required

Senior Network Engineer - You:

For this Senior Network Engineer opportunity, we are looking for someone with at least 5 years’ experience and the following essential technical IT skills:

- Fundamental networking architecture LAN/WAN

- Understanding of networking technologies – Cisco / Dell / Checkpoint / Azure / AWS

- Network Security Design and Implementation

- General WinTel within an Active Directory Environment

- General Hypervisor networking understandings

- General cloud platform networking

- Network patching and vulnerability management

- Documentation and reporting

As well as having technical skills, the successful candidate will also need to:

- Have excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure

- Work well within a team and independently

- Have the flexibility to travel and work from other sites

- Be hands-on

- Have great attention to detail

- Be process driven with the ability to think outside the box

- Demonstrate their willingness to expand their knowledge

- Engage in the teams on-call rota

In addition, you will need the right to work in the UK - we are not able to sponsor work permits

Senior Network Engineer - Benefits*:

- Up to 25 days holidays plus Bank Holidays

- Life cover

- Profit related pay

- Defined contribution pension scheme

- Discounted store/shopping benefit scheme

- Private healthcare

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Training opportunities

* Some benefits are subject to a qualifying period

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