Network Engineer

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Role: Network Engineer

Location: Brick Lane, London

Duration: 3-6 months

Start Date: ASAP

Fancy working with the Europe's leading Entertainment Company? We are looking for a Network Engineer to join our team in London.

The client is a large entertainment organisation; they excite and inspire customers with leading innovations and technologies in the entertainment industry. They strive to be the best for customers and the people working for them. They are always looking for ways to improve. That spirit has made us what we are today, and it will drive us to become what we want to be tomorrow.

Job Purpose/Key Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will be a multi-skilled network engineer, capable of understanding and fixing complex network solutions in a timely manner. To achieve this, you'll:

* Become a service and associated technology Operational Specialist in one or more related areas.

* Provide technical consultancy to the business and project teams always considering Operational requirements - reviewing solutions and documentation as required

* Handles service requests, prepares, validates and implements major changes

* Assist with the handling of major incidents and identifying root causes

* Contribute ideas to achieve a low-touch network management objective.

* Training/Knowledge transfer to shift teams for new services/technology.

Candidate Specification

* 5+ years of experience of working in large scale ISP/Telco networks preferably in Operations as Network/IP Engineer or Network Architect or other similar roles.

* In-depth expert level knowledge of IP Routing Protocols (OSPF/ISIS/BGP), Switching and MPLS based services protocols is essential (CCIE-SP/R&S is a plus but not mandatory)

* Excellent knowledge and 5+ years of experience on carrier grade Cisco/Juniper/Nokia/Huawei routing/switching platforms with understanding of their architecture. [Cisco & Nokia desirable]

* 5+ years of hands-on experience of working with IOS, IOS-XR, IOS-XE, and NX-OS is desirable.

* Hands-on experience on Nokia or Huawei is a plus.

* Good working experience of Load balancers (F5,) is a plus.

* Aware of automation technologies (Scripting skills in Python or Perl is a plus).

* Excellent network troubleshooting skills and have experience handling/fixing critical network incidents.

* ISP/Telco Application awareness is preferable.

* Superb communications ability, both written and verbal.

* Project driven

* Network Assurance tools, techniques etc.

If you are successful in your application for this role, your appointment will be subject to receiving a positive outcome from your Criminal Record Check.