Lead Network Engineer

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

1. Networking Engineer, responsible for designing, implementing, and managing network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
2. Third-line Technical escalation point for incidents, problems, changes, and break/fix issues.
3. Support relationships with 3rd parties, including monthly service reviews, performance management, and contract negotiation.
4. Ensuring the team has and maintains suitable technical skills to support the organisation's Network technology stack and its customer base.
5. Define and produce any required policies, standards, and guidelines for effective management of the network.
6. Responsible for deployment of the Network technology stack and component items, including deployment planning, scheduling & control, installations, hardware & software life cycle management, upgrades (including capacity, modifications & enhancements, and end-of-life replacements), as applicable.
7. Responsible for the scoping, costing & provision of third-party resources when additional resources are required for the deployment of the Network technology stack and component items.
8. Develop & utilize support interfaces with other departments in the organisation as well as the broader IT group and IS&O.
9. Network technology stacks risk management with respect to identifying risk, reporting risk, and mitigation/resolving risk in support of the organisation's risk department and GTI's risk management governance. No acceptance of risk to be undertaken.
10. Network technology stacks performance reporting against key performance indicators & metrics in support of GTI business management governance & the organisation's business management governance.
11. Participate in & support architecture designs, roadmaps, planning & deployments.
12. Providing support & technical escalation to regional support staff as required.
13. Execute additional responsibilities &/or tasks as designated by IS&O management.

Experience required to successfully perform the role:

• Senior Networking and Firewall experience
• Vendor management experience
• Project Management

Knowledge, technical skills and expertise:

Primary:

• Arista/Cisco network infrastructure
• WAN technologies (e.g., SD-WAN, MPLS, IPSec VPN, etc.)
• Network security technologies (e.g., Firewalls, IDS/IPS, NAC, etc.)
• Fortinet/FortiGate/Palo Alto Firewall
• Network management platforms (e.g., Solarwinds, Algosec, Thousand Eyes, etc.)
• DNS/DHCP/IPAM
• Cisco Services Engine (ISE)
• Optimization, Acceleration (Cisco, Riverbed)
• QoS
• VXLAN & EVPN
• BGP, OSPF
• Arista/Meraki Wi-Fi
• Citrix NetScaler (Load balancing)
• Experience of production network operations in a banking or similar environment
• CIS Configuration Benchmarks

We are committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require accommodations because of a health condition, please email. This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line.