Senior Network Engineer - Media Technology Production
Role: Senior Network Engineer - Media Technology Production
Location: London (Remote working due to COVID-19)
Type: Contract, Inside IR35
Start: ASAP - Feb 20201
Duration: 12 Months
Pay Rate: £65 - £80 per hour
CPS Group UK are delighted to be seeking a seasoned, Senior Network Engineer with a broad view and knowledge of both Information and Media technologies to successfully implement, scale and support next generation network infrastructure, workflow and pipelines.
The Network Engineer will work as part of the core Network Infrastructure team, which interacts and works closely with teams in the US and EMEA. Therefore, flexibility to work late or start early is must for this role.
Role Responsibilities
*Collaborate with other engineering teams to automate various processes, aid in capacity planning and implementations
*Work with team members to deploy, and operate infrastructure globally to support the production and distribution process
*Engineer and deploy scalable and flexible high-performance and high-availability network infrastructure
*Generate quality documentation on network issues, updates, root cause analysis, troubleshooting techniques and network analysis including diagrams/templates. Exercise consistent rigor in maintaining documentation
*Ensure reliable operation of systems and infrastructure software by designing and implementing network, instrumentation and management tools to predict, quickly diagnose and resolve abnormal network behaviour
*Liaison between critical production engineering groups
*Serve as a Tier 2 support for Systems, Media, Storage and Cloud Operations Engineers
*Interface with other business entities and their networks to support cross-segment workflows, file transport and other sharing of media assets, devices and infrastructure
Candidate Specification Required Technical Experience
*Minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering and operations for a Studio, ISP or a Major Enterprise network in a 7x24x365 environment. Normal hours and business days apply, but must be available to work after hours, weekends and some holidays as well as providing L3 on-call support on a rotation basis will be required.
*Experience working in a multi-vendor network environment (Juniper, Arista, Cisco, Brocade, Palo Alto, F5, Infinera, Ciena)
*Consistent track record of implementing large-scale and mission-critical networks
*Experience running and supporting high availability infrastructure
*Working experience with Public Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
*Experience implementing/maintaining monitoring and alerting for production systems
*Network theory and services (TCP/IP, UDP/IP, 7 layers of OSI, DNS, DHCP)
*Mid-level expertise with VXLAN, STP, ISIS, BGP, EVPN and MPLS
*Networked Storage technologies (NAS, SAN, Clustered, Tape)
*I/O technologies (Fiber Channel, InfiniBand, SCSI, SATA, SAS)
*Network hardware (firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, transport gear)
*Local and Networked File Systems (NFS, SMB, DFS, NTFS)
*Video streaming theory, standards and concepts
*Exceptional advanced troubleshooting skills
*Understanding of Network Security principals and best practices
For more information, or immediate consideration for this opportunity, please contact Charlie Grant at CPS Group UK on (phone number removed) or email (url removed)
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Role: Senior Network Engineer - Media Technology & Production
Job Type: Contract
Location: London, London,
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