As a Build Network Engineer, you will contribute to this by working collaboratively in the project team, designing, configuring, and delivering medium to large network solutions to enable services for our customer that meet the project timelines.

Your role will involve providing understanding the project technical requirements, documenting network design and configuration details, hands on implementation/configuration work, supporting the test phases, troubleshooting technical issues, supporting live implementations, and ensuring a successful handover to service for all changes.

Job Activities and Accountability (Day to Day):

Project Deployment stage in production covering on-boarding stage & hand over to service delivery. Depending on when candidate starts, they may additionally cover pre-production deployment.

Build / deployment of components stacks with associated management platforms (Retained edge = Packet Broker, Endace Probe, ESXi host, Juniper switch, Intercept point = Packet Broker, Endace Probe, ESXi host, Juniper switch, F5 appliance, Cisco IPS). Follow process, work instructions, and build guides. Communicate effectively within team and meet challenging timescales. Demonstrate disciplined autonomous working.

Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

Configuring Juniper switches and configuring ESXi hosts (distributed vSwitch).

General networking competence plus ability to follow defined process, work instructions and build guides.

Diagnose issues and either resolve or communicate clearly to PMs and SMEs (including steps to reproduce).

Experience in build / configuring stacks of components and performing tests to validate correct interworking of these.

Extension of above activities to Endace, F5 and Cisco Firepower by self-training and knowledge transfer from existing SMEs.

Strong "hands on" and CLI configuration and support activities, experience of scripting /automation desirable.

Ability follow WI, build guides and communicate issues.

Basic experience of project delivery is desirable - ability to interface with team members and communicate is very important.

Previous knowledge of network migration activities

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