A fantastic opportunity has come up at a high-tech commercial bank for a Principal Network Engineer. This is a permanent position based in the City of London. As part of the IT Operations team, the Principal Network Engineer is responsible for supporting a multi-vendor network infrastructure analyzing, designing, configuring and optimizing our global network.
You will provide direction, leadership, and recommendations to secure and optimize network traffic.You will provide Tier 3 support and maintenance to their Cisco infrastructure, routers and switches such as the Cisco Nexus and Catalyst platforms, Cisco ASR 7200/3800 routers, Cisco UCS, Cisco Multilayer Director, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, and Cisco 6500 switches amongst others.
Qualifications:
• Minimum of CCNP certification CCIE preferred, Security certifications a plus
• Proven extensive senior level networking operational experience, providing day-to-day operational monitoring and technical support for the network infrastructure
• Experience managing high availability architecture
• Demonstrated ability to ensure the infrastructure is maintained at the appropriate patch and software levels using change management as defined in the ITIL framework
• Has managed, led and executed projects that integrate new technology that scales allowing the environment to meet the growing performance, security, and functionality demands
• Provides cross training to team members to strengthen the broader team
• Experience in work load balancing - A10, WAN Optimization leveraging Riverbed – Steelhead, Network Monitoring using Protocols such as HSRP / VSRP / VRRP / BGP / OSPF / EIGRP MPLS/SDWAN wide area network QoS policy and design IPv6 addressing and routing.
Desired Characteristics:
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment with multiple high priorities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills detailing opportunities for improvement, problem management in non-technical terms
• Thrives when working in a highly diverse environment, able to work with senior management and project managers completing assigned tasks
• A team player with a positive attitude, detail oriented with a strong focus for quality
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in CS, IS preferred, equivalent experience will be considered
Benefits:
Holidays
30 days of annual leave (pro-rated for new joiners depending on date of hire), plus eight statutory public holidays.
Healthcare:
•Private Medical Insurance
•Health Assessments
•Dental Insurance
•Eye Care
Wellness:
•Employee Assistance Programme
•Gym Subsidy
•Ride to Work Scheme
Financial Wellbeing:
•Group Personal Pension Scheme
•Disability and Life Assurance
•Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
•Travel Insurance (Personal and Business)
•Employee Referral Programme
Family Bonding Time:
•Enhanced Maternity Leave
•Paternity Leave
•Shared Parental Leave
Developing and Giving Back:
•Learning Opportunities
•Employee Recognition
•Matching Gift and Community Involvement Program