Network & Infrastructure Engineer, Cisco, Cloud, LAN/WAN, Teams

Network & Infrastructure Engineer, Cisco, Cloud, LAN/WAN, Teams

This assignment has been deemed outside of IR35.
Hybrid work – 3 days per week.

Network Engineer, with infrastructure knowledge and experience, required for a leading private sector business based in Melksham.

The role sits in the wider (Global) IT Architecture and Strategy team, which is accountable for the design, implementation and 3^rd line support of the company Infrastructure.

The following spec covers working with suppliers who provide our global infrastructure and all related technologies used various data centres and communications.

General responsibilities: –

• Support on-premise IT infrastructure
• Support Global and Cloud infrastructure
• Support Unified communications systems.
• Engage with 3rd party infrastructure suppliers ensuring on-going system performance
• Contribute to office refurbishments, including LAN, WAN, SDWAN, Unified Comms, Server, Storage and computer room layout
• Create and maintain technical project documentation

Skills and experience required: –

• Cisco networking hardware and software: LAN, WAN, WLAN technologies.
• Server infrastructure, virtualization and hyperconvergence
• Wireless network technologies
• M365
• Microsoft Teams
• Cisco Unified Communications
• Use of tools e.g. Wireshark to troubleshoot network and service performance issues.
• Use of tools e.g. Solarwinds or Splunk to monitor and manage network performance.
• Encryption & security protocols, methods and techniques.
• Copper & fibre cabling protocols, management and patching techniques.
• Knowledge of VoIP standards, protocols video conferencing over IP.