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Network Engineer
Network Engineer - £50 per hour
Yoh Solutions are working in Partnership with a Global Aerospace & Defence company who are looking to recruit a Network Engineer to work on an initial 6 month contract in Bristol.
A Network Engineer is required with strong Cisco CCNA or equivalent, Cisco Switching, and building resilient TCP/IP Networks, Firewall (ASA, Checkpoint, Juniper Netscreen) and VPN technologies, F5 load balancer and CISCOs ACI.
Responsibilities include:
- Integral part of the infrastructure team within a very large enterprise.
- High degree of flexibility and adaptability.
- Supporting network infrastructure changes to the UK IT and SCIS programme environments in order to meet the developing requirements of the business.
- Supporting new and additional networks and data centre facilities.
- Liaising with US support groups to evaluate new technologies and toolsets for use within the company.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Cisco routing and Cisco switching including
- OSPF and IP protocol experience i.e. SNMP, SMTP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, HTTP
- Other skills required include experience of Linux operating systems
- Juniper SSL
- Security appliance terminology
- Infoblox DNS/DHCP Management
- System log management
- network/server monitoring
If your are interested please click apply or if you would like more information contact Matthew Warren on
Network Engineer - Juniper - SC Cleared
Network Engineer - Juniper - SC Cleared
I have an excellent opportunity for a Network Engineer with strong Juniper skills to join a consultancy based in Westminster on an inital 3 month contract.
The responsibility of the Network Engineer is to act as a third line of escalation for faults and changes for our client.
The role is office based and will required to be part of on call rota and, occasionally, out of office hours work.
The Network engineers will troubleshoot and manage to resolution complex faults affecting customer services, including escalations from the Help desk team. They will review and implement complex changes to the network infrastructure.
In addition to this, Network engineers will implement new solutions for customers onto the network, which may involve firewalls, WiFi AP, managed switches and VPNs onto cloud services and SaaS. They will also assist in the planning and implementing of network infrastructure changes as required by the business, in conjunction with the Architecture and Project teams.
Key responsibilities for this position include:
- Management and resolution of complex faults on the network, involving internet access circuits, IP routing (with overlay), LAN switching, WiFi networks, Web filtering, firewalls policies and AWS hosted services
- Implementation of complex change requests for customer solutions on the network
- Fault reporting to relevant suppliers and hardware vendors where necessary
- Act as a point of escalation for the Help desk team for faults and change requests
- Diagnosis of faults and implementation of change requests on the network infrastructure
- Assist with the creation of processes and documentation regarding diagnostics and implementation of common faults and change requests and also of complex solutions.
- Integration tasks (as defined by the business)
- Other tasks as defined by senior management
Knowledge, Skills, Experience
Essential
- Extensive data communications understanding and experience in Network Operations Centrer (NOC)
- Minimum JNCIP/CCNP or equivalent knowledge
- Experience in Juniper hardware and software troubleshooting with switching, routing, firewall platforms
- Good understanding of service overlay and experience with SaaS inter-connectivity
- AWS network understanding
- Experience in operating NMS and ticketing systems
- Previous experience working in a network operational environment.
- Good understanding of ITIL processes for Incident, Problem, and Change management.
- Attention to details and documentation skill.
- Must be able to take ownership of complicated network related issues and resolve them following set business escalation procedures
- Be able to work under pressure and understand problems whilst developing a structured path towards resolution
- Adaptable, used to working to tight time scales, motivated to manage own time, works well on own and with a team
Desirable
- Valid SC vetting status - highly desirable, or will need to undergo clearance
- JNCIE/JNCIP/CCIE/CCNP
- Aerohive experienced and/or certified
- Zscaler experienced and/or certified
- UNIX skills, including perl/python and shell scripting
- Experience of working with Service Now
- Strong experience in implementing and troubleshoot IP, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, Ethernet WAN technologies, dsl, IPSec, PPP/L2TP, STP and WAN technologies including Ethernet, xDSL, Leased Lines and LES
If this role is of interest and you'd like further information please contact me directly.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age
Network Security Engineer - Contract
Network Security Engineer - CCSA, CheckPoint, Firewall - Rate £325 p/d - Hertfordshire/Remote
The company: An award-winning Managed Security Service Provider specialising in SOC services, penetration testing, cyber risk advisory and cloud security. Due to their success and growth they are looking for a Network Security Engineer to join their Security team on a contract basis.
The role: The successful Network Security Engineer will be responsible for managing daily operation tasks such as raising, representing and implementing firewall changes. You will have excellent communication skills and be confident in a client facing role.
Skills:
- Checkpoint CCSA
- Knowledge of Networks and Network Security
- Firewalls
- IPSEC/SSL VPN
- Excellent communication skills
- Problem solving skills
If you feel this is the role for you, please apply now!
Network Engineer
A multinational Financial services company are in urgent need for a experienced Network Engineer to take on the responsibility for network deployment for all business units for London/Europe/Asia. The value of the position is to operate at a mid-level within the team, and act as a deployment engineer taking direction from SME's and Project teams.
Resposibilities;
- Network Deployment of; LAN Infrastructure, Market Data and firewall/extranet infrastructure, Internet technologies, multicast connectivity
- 2nd line support of network infrastructure
- Maintain technical standards and supporting documentation
- Maintain project standards and documentation
- The team in London is small, and the incumbent will be required to work to a high standard with limited supervision
- Providing high quality support within the London network campus
Required skills;
- Very experienced with Cisco & Arista hardware and IOS
- Excellent understanding of multicast technology
- Excellent understanding of various MDS and exchange applications such as RMDS, Eurex, Thomson Reuters etc.
- Good understanding of IP protocols (TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, OSPF etc.)
- Experience of Arista Network technology
- Investment Banking experience
- Industry recognised qualification such as Cisco CCA/CCNP/CCIE
Senior Infrastructure Migration Engineer
In this role, we are looking to build an experienced data centre migration team to help us relocate one of our datacentres to a new Colo facility within a fast paced project environment. This senior technical leadership role will need to oversee the other technical resources in the team and ultimately be accountable for the technical quality of delivery.
You will be responsible for helping shape the migration strategy to include planning, service migration model (big bang, phased), method of data load during migration execution whilst also providing technical delivery and support to the delivery team. Stakeholder management and being process driven are key skills as well as the ability to document decisions, designs and outputs with a keen eye for detail. Interested candidates will need to provide examples of previous documentation.
This is a hands on technical role as well taking leadership over the other infrastructure team members on the project. Travel to both London and France Data Centres may also be required. Having worked for a service Provider, integrator or similar is desirable
Technical Expertise
- Datacentre compute technologies – Nimble SAN, Dell Server, Cisco Networking
- Server virtualisation - VMware ESX
- Operating System - Windows 2008/2012/2016
- Cloud Technologies – AWS Storage Gateway
- Database - Oracle, Microsoft SQL
- Network and Security - L3 and L2 networking, WAN/LAN/WLAN, Load-balancer, Firewall / IDS/IDP, Forward and Reverse Proxy, 2FA, S2S VPN
- Core Infrastructure services - Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, File and Print services
- High availability cluster features in Wintel, storage and databases within datacentre and datacentres distributed geographically
- Experience in design and implementation RPO/RTO DR/BCP solutions
Last 90 Days
Infrastructure Engineer - Contract
Infrastructure Engineer - Contract
Guildford
Are you a well skilled Infrastructure Engineer looking for you next contract? My client is a world renowned name in the Cyber Security industry, providing bespoke digital security solutions to high profile public and private sector clients. They are now searching for a contracting Infrastructure Engineer to become an integral member of their industry leading team based in Guildford.
As a company, my client is rapidly growing due to the diverse and complex nature of the projects that they undertake, and so it would be an exciting time to join as the newest Contract - Infrastructure Engineer, contributing to keeping the UK's most renowned organisations safe from cyber threats and attacks.
This is a contract position so we are looking for specialists who do not need their hand-held - an 'eagerness to learn" unfortunately will not cut it for this role. Prior experience working within the Defence and Intelligence or Cyber Security industry would be beneficial but not essential.
Essential Experience:
- Strong Linux experience - Redhat/Centos preferred, networking configuration and troubleshooting, software installation, builds and system configuration
- Strong practical networking - connectivity troubleshooting, L2L VPN setup and troubleshooting, packet tracing, NATting, CIDR, ACLs, experience of any major firewall appliances is beneficial
- Cloud experience (good on-prem virtualisation experience also useful against this?) - AWS and/or Azure preferable, launching instances, security groups, AMI
- Windows - server builds, group policy editing, AD concepts
Desirable Experience:
- Security concepts - hardening, crypto, host firewalls, SOC experience
- Monitoring - agentless via snmp/wmi, scripting
- SIEM concepts - event monitoring, configuring devices to send events (syslog etc.), vulnerability scanning, probes
- Databases - mysql/postgresql/ms sql
- Extra points for experience of the preferred products: Arcsight, Outpost24, AWS, Azure, Cisco ASA, Fortigate, Osirium, Solarwinds
Location: Guildford
Role: Infrastructure Engineer - Contract
Start Date - ASAP
Rate: £450 per day
Duration: 3 Months
Contact: Peter Vannet
Telephone:
Email:
Reference: *AMC*PVA/BAGUIE
Network Engineer
I am currently supporting a global company who are looking for a Cisco savvy CCNP qualified Network Engineer.
You will be proving 2nd/3rd line support, with occasional project design and delivery work.
The successful candidate will have experience in the following: Cisco Catalyst Enterprise Networking, Cisco Nexus Datacentre Networking, Cisco ASA firewall, Cisco WLC based flexconnect Wifi and Palo Alto Networks NG firewall.
Any of the following skills are desirable but not essential: Palo Alto Networks Panorama, F5 BIG-IP LTM, Cisco ACS, Cisco ISE, 802.1X., Solarwinds NCM / NPM, Dynamic routing with EIGRP or OSPF, Cisco Prime Infrastructure (WIFI), Fortinet FortiGate/FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer Firewall, Amazon AWS, Office365 or Basic awareness of Cisco ACI, Cisco TrustSec or SD-WAN solutions.
If you're a dynamic team player looking for a new challenge then please apply today! If you would like to discuss this role in more detail please give me a call on 0113 887 8074.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age
Network Engineer
Are you a solid CCNP qualified Network Engineer who is all about delivering outstanding, cost effective technology?
My client is looking for a Network Engineer to support their internal users whilst always looking for better, simpler and more effective ways of delivery in a fast paced environment.
What you'll be doing
- Management and support of office, datacentre and cloud networks
- Connectivity into Cloud Services
- Exploiting and exposing the performance of the global networks for all, using tools such as Solarwinds, Graphite/Grafana, Splunk etc.
- Continual service improvement of all network services
- Troubleshoot problem areas as required, providing in depth network support to both support and project teams
- Manage and administer systems that relate to network management. This includes network monitoring and analysis tools as well as peripheral network services like DNS and DHCP.
- Producing network documentation for internal network team and wider technology colleagues
- Ensuring operational requirements are considered and met for our products
- Active involvement in all stages of planning of initiatives
- Ensure all network components adhere to security standards
You will have
- Experience in managing and troubleshooting in a Cisco and Checkpoint world to a senior level
- Solid switching and routing skills and experience supporting both Layer 2 networks, and a Layer 3 LAN that closely integrates with the MAN and WAN network using BGP, OSPF and EIGRP routing protocols to provide resilience
- Maximising performance and availability of wireless networking (Cisco)
- Exploitation of network monitoring and management tools
- Experience of having a heavy workload and dealing with it accordingly
- Familiarity with a range of AWS technologies, (such as Cloudformation, Lambda and EC2)
You may have
- An accredited qualification in cisco or firewall e.g. CCNP
- Have worked in a large organisation
- Have experience of Cisco DNA
- Have used a programming language such as python or anything similar
- Experienced with shell scripting (bash or otherwise)
Why work for my client
They have a technical stack that is cutting edge, their product development methodologies are very current, their engineers are free to choose the tools they need and are able to influence the development process.
You'll be working with some extraordinary people both from the technology team and wider business as well as working in a supportive, collaborative, and fulfilling environment. You will be working in teams that make their own decisions and have their own independence but have the resources of the one of the world's leading news organisations.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age
Cloud Implementation Engineer - Azure
Cloud Implementation Engineer - Azure
A global professional services organisation is currently looking to hire a cloud implementation Engineer for an initial 6 month contract based in London.
The main remit of the role will be to assist in the implantation of Azure Cloud services and ensure that the appropriate service response is delivered to all relevant stakeholders,
The Cloud Implementation Engineer will have a history of leading in a performance based environment and have experience and knowledge including Implementation of Azure environments, Networking best practises and IaaS firewall configuration
Responsibilities
- Implementing and operating Azure IaaS platform
- Ensuring the environment adheres to best practise
- Documenting operational procedures and design
- Enforcing compliance with established policies, practices, and processes for managing infrastructure
- Analysing the operation for continuous improvement
- Proactively investigate issues and ensure these are dealt with appropriately
Skills & Qualifications
- Azure, Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud, Office 365
- Azure Operations Management Suite
- AAD, and supporting services ADFS integration, Azure MFA, B2C,
- Azure Networking and Express Route and VPN's
- UDR and use of Firewalls in Azure
- Understand network load balancing and gateway technologies
- Good understanding of Azure license/cost models, e.g. CSP, EA, BYOL, etc.
- Azure IAAS, Storage, (incl. understanding of StorSimple).
- Azure Site Recovery (VMware and Hyper-V), Azure backup services
- Understanding of Azure PAAS services, SQL and Web, and Apps
- High level understanding of Citrix deployment and management in Azure
- Tools sets to monitor and manage Office 365 and Azure
- PowerShell
This is an excellent opportunity to work across the entire project lifecycle within a greenfield site so please send your CV to Michael Moretti for immediate consideration.
Cloud Implementation Engineer - Azure
Cloud Implementation Engineer - Azure
A global professional services organisation is currently looking to hire a cloud implementation Engineer for an initial 6 month contract based in London.
The main remit of the role will be to assist in the implantation of Azure Cloud services and ensure that the appropriate service response is delivered to all relevant stakeholders,
The Cloud Implementation Engineer will have a history of leading in a performance based environment and have experience and knowledge including Implementation of Azure environments, Networking best practises and IaaS firewall configuration
Responsibilities
- Implementing and operating Azure IaaS platform
- Ensuring the environment adheres to best practise
- Documenting operational procedures and design
- Enforcing compliance with established policies, practices, and processes for managing infrastructure
- Analysing the operation for continuous improvement
- Proactively investigate issues and ensure these are dealt with appropriately
Skills & Qualifications
- Azure, Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud, Office 365
- Azure Operations Management Suite
- AAD, and supporting services ADFS integration, Azure MFA, B2C,
- Azure Networking and Express Route and VPN's
- UDR and use of Firewalls in Azure
- Understand network load balancing and gateway technologies
- Good understanding of Azure license/cost models, e.g. CSP, EA, BYOL, etc.
- Azure IAAS, Storage, (incl. understanding of StorSimple).
- Azure Site Recovery (VMware and Hyper-V), Azure backup services
- Understanding of Azure PAAS services, SQL and Web, and Apps
- High level understanding of Citrix deployment and management in Azure
- Tools sets to monitor and manage Office 365 and Azure
- PowerShell
This is an excellent opportunity to work across the entire project lifecycle within a greenfield site so please send your CV to Michael Moretti for immediate consideration.
Azure Network Architect
Azure Network Architect needed for an urgent 2 Week Contract based in Uxbridge. Urgent start following a successful telephone interview. A single piece of work that will take approximately 2 weeks, with a possible 2 week extension period.
Key skills, experience and responsibilities would include…
- Creating low-level designs (LLD) to connect an on-premise network to Azure / Cloud.
- Strong Azure network architecture experience, including requirements gathering, technical design and implementation.
- Working with the customer’s on site network and infrastructure team, Plain Concepts (Azure Platform Build & Run team) and external partners.
- Validating changes through the agreed change process, including Firewall change requests.
- Technical Experience: Azure network resources, Virtual Networks, Subnets, NSGs, Express Route, Secure VPN etc.
- Prior experience of working with multinational businesses and Agile environments is preferred.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and customer-facing skills.
NEXT STEPS…
- Please email through a copy of your CV for consideration stating your work availability, £ day rate expectations and a short paragraph explaining why you believe you are a strong match for this position.
- If your experience matches the job description a member of the Syntax team will contact you to talk you through the full details and to answer any questions you may have.
- We do our very best to respond to all applications. However, due to high volumes of enquiries we regret it is not always possible to do this.
ABOUT US…
- Syntax Consultancy Ltd is a leading independent IT, Digital and Tech recruitment specialist.
- We offer 30+ years’ experience in providing outstanding talent into clients throughout the UK & Europe, including the IT Consultancy, Government, Education, NHS, Software and Retail markets.
- We specialise in supplying high-end Contract / Interim and Permanent IT, Digital and Technical professionals who make an immediate, positive impact.
- At Syntax we pride ourselves on providing an outstanding service to candidates and clients alike.
- We aim to make the recruitment process as positive and hassle-free as possible, whatever the final outcome.
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Cloud Implementation Engineer
Cloud Implementation Engineer. Azure
This position is responsible for the implementation and operational performance of the Cloud infrastructure through implementation of the Azure Cloud services.Variety of skills, including hands-on technical, design, communications and process.
The Cloud Implementation Engineer will have a history of leading in a performance based environment and have experience and knowledge including
- Implementation of Azure environments
- Networking best practises
- IaaS Firewall configuration.
- Experience with Citrix Cloud is also desirable.
Documenting operational procedures and design
Enforcing compliance with established policies, practices, and processes for managing infrastructure
Analysing the operation for continuous improvement
Technical Knowledge, Professional Qualifications and Experience
- Azure, Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud, Office 365
- Azure Operations Management Suite
- AAD, and supporting services ADFS integration, Azure MFA, B2C,
- Azure Networking and Express Route and VPN's
- UDR and use of Firewalls in Azure
- Understand network load balancing and gateway technologies
- Good understanding of Azure license/cost models, eg CSP, EA, BYOL, etc.
- Azure IAAS, Storage, (incl. understanding of StorSimple).
- Azure Site Recovery (VMware and Hyper-V), Azure backup services
- Understanding of Azure PAAS services, SQL and Web, and Apps
- High level understanding of Citrix deployment and management in Azure
- Tools sets to monitor and manage Office 365 and Azure
- PowerShell
Network Engineer - Poland
Cisco / CCNA / CCNP / Routing / Switching / LAN / WAN / Firewall / ASA / Security
Role: Polish-speaking Network Engineer
Rate: £200/day
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Wroclaw
My client are currently hiring for a Polish-speaking Network Engineer to join their team on a 6 month contract basis with immediate effect.
The role requires someone with strong routing and switching knowledge (ideally to CCNA/CCNP level) to assist with an ongoing implementation project.
In order to be considered for the position, experience in the following is required:
- CCNA / CCNP
- Cisco Routing & Switching
- LAN / WAN
- ASA Firewalls
If this role is of interest, please send an updated CV through to and call Gary on to discuss in more detail.
I have interview slots available from Monday 11th February 2018 and candidates must be available to start at no more than 3 weeks' notice.
Network Engineer
Network LAN Engineer - 6 Months Contract
Based in Peterborough,Our client, a global engineering company have now made available a Network LAN Engineer role based from their Peterborough site. This will primarily be providing remote network support services to our client's facilities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East (EAME) but also globally when required.
What will the role involve?
Reporting to the EAME Network Services Supervisor, based in the UK you will be:
Developing Local Area Network designs, building the configurations following company standards and then deploying those designs.
Providing adhoc remote support for network related incidents as and when required.
Working independently and as part of a regional or global team, on assigned projects
Collaborating with remote team members based around the globe.
What experience are we looking for?
A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
3 years' experience of Cisco network technologies.
Cisco CCNA qualification is required, and any CISCO qualification above will be a significant plus.
Some knowledge of project management methodologies, as you will be managing small network related projects as well as actively participate as a member of larger project teams.
Some out-of-hours work will be required, with on-call rotation for 1 week every 2 months.
Key skills required:
Cisco familiarity including: -
IOS upgrade, WLC controller configuration
Cisco Router and Switch configuration.
Familiarity with firewall designs
Understanding of related technologies (DNS, DHCP etc.)
Fault finding skills
Basic Knowledge of a Ticketing software (Remedy/Peregrine).
Good Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, Putty, and other Network tools
2 x Technical / Infrastructure Architects
Currently going through huge amounts of Change & a huge Integration Programme, the Client are looking for an experienced & cultured Infrastructure Architects with previous experience working on other large & complex programmes of work (ideally within other large Financial Services organisations) and broad technical expertise across a number of different Infrastructure Technologies.
To be successful in these roles, key skills & experience should include;
*** First class, high-calibre HANDS-ON Infrastructure Architecture knowledge & experience with strong understanding of high-level & low-level designs etc
*** Extensive knowledge & experience gained from within other large Financial Services Clients & Projects (ideally including some previous exposure Investments, Asset Management, Wealth Management etc)
*** A broad & in-depth Technical knowledge covering;
1)In-depth Server, Compute & Virtualisation technologies
2)A strong understanding of Storage technologies, including SAN architecture/design
3)Network, Firewall and Load Balancing Design considerations
4)End-User Computing/Workplace technologies with specific exposure to VDI would be ideal
5)Design-level understanding of SQL Server RDBMS resilience models
6)Exposure to hype-scale Public Cloud capabilities, e.g. Microsoft Azure
*** 1st class people, communication & organisational skills with the ability to work with multiple teams, stakeholders & 3rd parties
*** Excellent Stakeholder engagement & management skills - must be able to work across a range of levels & manage expectations accordingly
If the above details appeal to you, please apply NOW with an up-to-date CV. This is a high-profile Programme of work and we're seeking high-calibre candidates with a positive can-do attitude & strong work-ethic.
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