Network Engineer - Active SC

Role Title: Network Engineer
Location: Office - Barrow in Furness
Duration: 6 Months
Clearance: ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE
Rate: £400 per day - PAYE via Umbrella Only

Role Description:
The role requires the candidate to be a part of our Network Performance Monitoring team, delivering and maintaining monitoring toolsets to the client. Embedded within the client's Network Analysis team, the candidate will monitor the client networks for performance issues utilising our toolsets to assist in investigations and conduct deep-dive analysis. Therefore, there will be periods where these monitoring devices will require repair, replacement and new builds and deployment out in the field.

You will:

Perform Level 2/3 Network incident diagnostics/resolution.
Network change & request implementation.
Continue to strengthen and bolster your existing capabilities through a mix of professional training, certifications, and experiences.
Your skills and experience:

Network performance monitoring - using application-level traffic monitoring and also low level packet capture to diagnose network issues.
Gather requirements, documentation of designs, installations and build documents.
Software installation and server builds.
Physical server installation (Data Centres).
Generate scripts for automating functions and interfacing systems such as Rest API etc.
Review and test new software versions in a lab/dev environment.
Gain knowledge of networking concepts (Firewalls, VPN, load-balancing etc).
Gain knowledge in network packet sniffing and SNMP monitoring tools.
Build dashboards for SOC/NOC end users using the current toolsets.
Prepare and deliver demonstrations of toolsets to clients.
Utilise end user experience monitoring tools.
An awareness of virtualisation and containerisation technologies, such as VMWare, Docker and their function Working knowledge of Windows and Linux based operating systems.
Server and PC hardware fundamentals.
Basic networking / TCP/IP.
Appreciation of enterprise class networking e.g. Juniper, Cisco.
Virtualization (VMWare) and containerisation.
Knowledge of scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PowerShell and BASH scripting