Senior Network Engineer

Date: 4 Jul 2024

Location: Braddell, SG

Company: Network For Electronic Transfers (S)

BCS is NETS’ wholly owned subsidiary, and is an entity within the NETS Group. It manages and operates clearing and payment infrastructure for the Singapore Automated Clearing House, including Fast And Secure Transfers (FAST), Inter-bank GIRO (IBG), Cheque Truncation System (CTS), and provides services for PayNow and SGQR Central Repository.

Position Summary

The incumbent will be responsible for delivering IT infrastructure services strategies and managing infrastructure-related issues, which include evaluation, conceptualisation, development, implementation, maintenance, and support of IT infrastructure systems. The incumbent will also be required to review existing work processes and recommend areas of improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Network Administration

• Perform network administration in a heterogeneous environment (production, DR, test) comprising of network and security equipment, telecommunication links.
• Perform hardening, upgrade, and enhancement on IT infrastructure components.
• Monitor, assess, schedule, and implement network and product-specific security vulnerability patches.
• Monitor obsolescence of IT infrastructure components (network systems).
• Monitor expiry and perform renewal of network system passwords and certificates.
• Implement network backup operations to ensure data recoverability and business continuity.
• Execute disaster recovery plans for IT infrastructure (network systems) and conduct regular disaster recovery testing and component switchover exercises to ensure usability of standby and DR equipment.

Project Management and Support

• Provide infrastructure (system and network) support to projects in accordance to the project timeline.
• Manage infrastructure enhancement/upgrade projects in accordance with established project management guidelines.

Incident and Problem Management

• Provide second level network support and resolve incidents and problems in accordance with established Service Level Agreements.
• Perform problem diagnosis on incidents and implement measures to prevent recurrence.

Change and Release Management

• Schedule and release network system changes to the production environment in accordance with the change management process/procedures.

Configuration Management

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive operating system hardware and software configuration database/library of all IT infrastructure components used in the production environment.

Capacity and Performance Management

• Perform infrastructure system and network capacity monitoring and planning.
• Monitor and perform performance tuning to optimize network performance.

Process Management

• Implement underlying processes to support IT service management, in conformance to corporate security policies and guidelines.

Documentation

• Develop and maintain technical and process documents to upkeep IT infrastructure.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology or related discipline.
• Preferably, attained CCNA, CCNP, CCSA, CCSE, PCNSA, PCNSE, NSE (up to level 4).

Experience and Technical Skill Set

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in managing network and security equipment such as routers, switches, firewalls, VPN, load balancer, DNS, NAC.
• Experience/industry certification for public cloud administration.

Other Criteria

• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and able to work independently as well as in a team.
• Demonstrate good analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Possess a customer-oriented mindset and a sense of initiative.
• Ability to multi-task and operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiar with data center operations.

Banking Computer Services Pte Ltd - A subsidiary of NETS