Senior Network and Security Engineer

Location:
Remote/Hybrid Working - With regular visits to customer sites as required
Employment Type:
Permanent Employee

37.5 Hours per week with On-Call

Role Summary

As a NOC 2nd Line Network Engineer you will form part of a team of 3 engineers, who provide the first and second level of technical escalation within the Northern and Southern Technology Centres.

As the first and second level of technical escalation, you will interface directly with our customers technical teams to provide remote troubleshooting of more complex incidents, as well as involvement in problem tickets and request fulfilment and change requests.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain network availability for customers by performing routine maintenance, failover testing, and participating in the implementation of best practices etc

  • Regularly updating customers on progress of incidents, problems and changes by telephone and email in a professional manner

  • Maintaining Roc and customer ITSM systems with high quality work notes detailing progress, actions, and plans

  • Manage phone calls from customers, ensuring they are made aware of what action has been or will be taken to resolve their issues

  • Guide and instruct technical staff, professionally challenging behaviour where necessary

  • Contact third parties/vendors/suppliers to log and progress support calls, request, and progress technical advice from our customers

  • Escalating calls to senior engineers or management as appropriate

  • Liaison with internal departments, vendors and suppliers where required

  • Identifying and recommending improvements for the 1st Line Support operation

  • To take ownership of Customers requests and be proactive when dealing with Customers issues

  • Be involved in customer updates and upgrades when they are required, while adhering to Roc’s Change Management process 

  • To ensure all requests meet or exceed the contractual Service Level Agreements

  • Always maintain high customer-care levels

  • Carry out housekeeping tasks

  • Actively seek to improve and grow own skill and knowledge in appropriate areas

  • Ad-hoc duties as required

Knowledge & skills

Essential
  • General Switching Skills – Aruba, Juniper or Cisco is ideal 

  • Routing and Wireless Skills

  • ESX Hosting

  • ClearPass Virtual Appliances

  • Aruba Central Cloud service

  • Aruba Wireless

  • Juniper MIST

  • Certificate Services

  • DNS and DHCP

  • Firewall Skills - Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto – Checkpoint

  • VLAN configuration and Routing

Desirable
  • ITIL Foundation Certificate

  • 5+ years of practical experience managing and supporting network infrastructure

  • Experience with Network Authentication Products e.g. ISE

  • CCNP – Level knowledge

  • Fortinet and Palo Alto Knowledge

  • Juniper/JUNOS knowledge

Key Attributes

Essential
  • Excellent technical and customer service skills

  • Self-starter, with the ability to work alone/unsupervised

  • Commercially aware, good literacy and numeracy

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Ability to work independently, flexibly and with initiative

  • Adhere to ITIL-based processes for the ongoing management of the customer environment

  • Experience of Service desk environment

  • Highly motivated, flexible, and committed attitude toward service delivery

  • Drive, energy and initiative

  • Professional approach

Desirable
  • Flexible, resilient and tenacious

  • Previously used ITSM Tooling-ServiceNow

Experience & Attainments

Essential
  • 2-5 years of practical experience (Intermediate) managing/supporting Network Infrastructure

  • Experience in working within an Enterprise or managed service support function (Service Desk /NOC etc)

  • Demonstrable ability to deal with high impact, high profile, incidents, and deal with senior level technical engineers

  • Proven experience in working with monitoring and event management tools

  • Proven network and/or server troubleshooting experience

  • Ability to quickly assess outages and identify the likely route cause

  • Working in a secure environment

Desirable
  • Experience working with a Managed Service Provider (MPS)

  • Experience working in a secure environment

  • ITIL Foundation Certificate

  • Aruba Experience: ASCA qualified

  • Cisco Experience: CCNA qualified

  • Working towards professional level qualifications with Cisco (CCNP) or Aruba (ACSP)

  • Experience with Network Authentication products –ISE or ClearPass

  • AOS10

  • User Experience Insight (UXI)