Network Engineer at Venesky Brown, Edinburgh, £450 per day

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Network Engineer for an initial 12 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £450/day (Outside IR35). This role will be based in Edinburgh, however, attendance at the project site will only be required on an as-needed basis.

Responsibilities:

- Consult in the delivery of a design and strategy around managing a large multi-site network including SDWAN, WiFi and LAN active projects leading to you implementing said designs.

- Provide effective, timely and accurate advice and sound professional judgement to colleagues on networking/infrastructure design ensuring design principles are adhered to

- Represent Change and Digital Innovation (Networks team) at meetings both internal and external in relation to the change programme.

- Consult on the overall network roadmap based on the 3 year and 5-year business plan.

- Provide technical design consultation to DDIA and network security.

- Ensure design compliance within PSN networks and the appropriate policies and procedures

- Advise best practice to Coordinate, maintain and develop existing systems to meet the needs of the business and supported Partners as part of the change programme

- Consult with operational colleagues to identify improvements to service provision to meet the ongoing and future needs of the organisation

- Attend meetings and network events as required and identify and share best practice methods

- Attend CAB (Change Authority Board) meetings when required to further explain submitted/ proposed Network changes in line with the change programme.

- Ensure all collateral required by Project Managers is provided within agreed timescales.

- Consult with others within the organisation and outside agencies to continuously improve service provision and make suggestions for improvements to systems and processes based on the network roadmap.

- Keep current with market trends and new products in area of your specialism.

- May be required to undertake other duties.

Essential Skills:

- Proven up to date experience of Cisco equipment (2960X/XR, 4500, 9000 series as well as Nexus switches), ideally supported by a recognised network certification.

- Knowledge of troubleshooting physical network site infrastructure

- Experience of building, managing and maintaining high availability networks with Cisco devices

- Working knowledge or experience in some or all of the following subjects: Cisco Networking, Unified Communications, WLC, F5 VPN, F5 Silverline/XC, IPsec tunnel and Palo Alto Firewalls.

- Experience of running, using and implementation of network monitoring solutions

- Experience of designing load balancing services

- Ability to work in partnership with IT colleagues and operational colleagues

- Good working knowledge of how analogue telephone services are presented to customer premises.

- The ability to identify the equipment installed on customer premises that relates to analogue line delivery and presentation, often in busy and congested comms rooms and cabinets.

- Understanding of underlying services that may utilise analogue lines, such as alarm or lift lines.

- The ability to trace cabling from supplier core presentation to equipment socket, with the assistance of local resources where appropriate.

- Good working knowledge of best practice approaches to testing analogue line delivery for live service.

- Maintaining accurate records in relation to the identification work and testing of analogue services across the organisation, reporting back to key project personnel when required.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.