Storage/Network Specialist, Routing, Switching, VPN, Firewall

Storage/Network specialist, routing, switching, VPN, Firewalls, DNS, load balancers

My client is a large and well-known financial organisation based in NL. They are currently looking for an experienced storage specialist to help deliver new services and improve existing services.

AS THE SUCCESSFUL STORAGE/NETWORK SPECIALIST YOUR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE: -

- Provide 2nd and 3rd line support to fix incidents or problems, during business hours and during standby:
- Of Gateway solutions providing access to Internet and Financial Markets, based on Cisco and Juniper product ranges
- Of Local Area Network solutions based on the Cisco Ethernet Switching product range including Nexus, and HPE Comware Switches.
- Of Wide Area Network solutions based on the Cisco and Juniper product ranges
- Of Application Delivery Services, based on F5 product ranges.
- Provisioning and engineering of network services
- Security & Compliance
- Input for capacity planning
- Operational capacity management
- Owns relationship with stakeholders and vendors
- Gathers requests for changes in services
- Manage software and hardware licenses and device upgrades where required
- Run usage reports
- Maintain operational support procedures
- Create and solve change and problem tickets

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

- Experience with routing/switching/VPN/Firewalls/DNS and load balancers as Network Engineer
- Knowledge and experience with Datacenter environments is a must
- Knowledge and certification at Cisco CCNP level
- Knowledge and certification at Juniper JNCIA-Junos level
- Deployment and support of Local and Wide Area Networks
- Good experience in support and deployment of OSPF and BGP routing protocol
- Good experience in support and deployment of QoS and traffic contracts in LAN/WAN.
- Good experience in support and deployment of VPLS/MPLS networks delivering layers 2 & 3 VPN and Traffic Engineering solutions.
- Good experience in support and deployment of Local Area Networks at layer 2 & 3, Spanning Tree, Trunking, VLANs, Multi-Layer Switching
- Good knowledge and understanding of Router ACLS, creating rule set changes and troubleshooting.
- Good experience of working with vendors such as carriers.
- Experience in support of IP Multicast based on Cisco product range.
- Familiarity and usage of Network Management tools such as HP NNMi, InfoVista, Netflow, Voyence, Splunk, Infoblox IPAM
- Experience with F5 Load balancers
- Familiarity with protocol analysis tools such as Network General Sniffer/Wildpackets
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft networking infrastructure and Linux systems, DNS, DHCP, WINS, AD