Senior Network EngineerLondon, City / HybridCirca £80k + excellent bonus + excellent benefitsCisco, FortigateSenior Network Engineer is sought to join the Global Network team within prestigious financial services organisation based in the City of London. This role will report into the Network Manager and be responsible for the management, oversight and delivery of IT services to the group. This will include helping manage the Network and Network Security teams at their key outsourcing partners.Involvement in Global projects, either as the project lead or member of the project team from initiation to completion which may require travel to other offices and locations periodically.Key responsibilities:

Be the local network lead for their London offices.
Form a strong working relationship with other key infrastructure teams including hosting, storage, compute, security and end user services.
Be able to work independently and have the gravitas and acumen to work with IT Leads and challenge where appropriate.
Be the local network contact for the London Applications team and work with them on all network related business application issues and requests.
Work closely with the Global Network Team to jointly manage the IT outsourcers.
An adaptable approach to change between fault diagnosis, projects and enhancements and striving to simplify the infrastructure, at all times.
Technically test and validate new services, improvements and upgrades so they are secure and ready for production use.
Prepare and submit changes to Change Advisory and Initiation Forums and implement approved changes through the development life cycle into production.

Key Requirements:

Strong background in Cisco routing, Cisco switching, Cisco Data Centre Switching and routing, Cisco wireless networks and Fortigate firewalling.
Hands on experience with Cisco Catalyst 9000 series, Cisco Nexus 9k and Fortigate physical and virtual firewalls with the capability of setting up a greenfield site.
Knowledge and skills in the following areas would be advantageous: Microsoft Azure networking, F5, NSX-T and DFW / Tiered gateways, Infoblox IPAM and DHCP, Solarwinds NPM, SDWAN and Proxy technologies experience both onsite and cloud proxy Zscaler or Netskope
5+ years of end-to-end hands-on Network Management experience.
Proven experience of successfully shaping and executing control and audit remediation programmes of work.
Exposure to, and understanding of IT Infrastructure and Applications
Experience of owning and delivering projects.
Experience of working with IT outsourcers.

Please note, you will be joining an organisation who offer excellent career prospects as well as an excellent total comp package and have their employee’s wellbeing at the heart of what they do.For a full consultation please contact Arc IT.

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