Junior Networking Engineer

2 weeks ago

Doncaster, Doncaster, United Kingdom Network Communication Systems Ltd Full time £25,000 - £35,000 per year
Junior Network Engineer

Key Aims:
  • You'll offer support to users, who can be staff, clients, customers, and suppliers, and troubleshoot any problems. In some cases, this may involve designing new networks.
  • Your aim is to ensure the integrity of high-availability network infrastructure to provide maximum performance for your users.
  • Although this position is primarily an engineering role, you must have a flair for sales and be able to successfully demonstrate the company's products at exhibitions and to customers as and when required.

Key Tasks:
  • Evaluate new networking technologies/environments, including software and hardware
  • Monitors the performance of networks and makes recommendations concerning network quality.
  • Create customer and site-specific profiles and provide troubleshooting services to customers and users
  • Ensure network security, report on, investigate, and fix network faults
  • Design network Topologies and write user and operational documentation.  Provides subsequent support and training for users.

Network Technologies: You will work with a variety of network technologies, including but not limited to the below:
  • WANS/LANS/MANS/WLAN/SDN
  • VoIP/CCTV/Access Control/IOT/Telecare/Telehealth Systems
  • VLANS/VLAN Tagging and QOS
  • Devices attached to the above, such as Firewalls, L2 and L3 Switches, SIP-GSM Gateways, Android Devices, Linux Devices
  • SIP Server/Proxies
  • PSTN Networks
  • RS-485 Networks

Detailed Responsibilities: As a network engineer, you'll need to:
  • Establish the networking environment by designing the system, installing of software, configuring, and testing
  • Undertake Wi-Fi Surveys and make recommendations on where to locate access points
  • Design, implement, and project plan new solutions and improve the resilience of the current environment
  • Maximise network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades, and collaborating with network architects on network optimisation
  • Undertake data network fault investigations in local and wide area environments using information from multiple sources
  • Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, defining and monitoring access
  • Support and administer firewall environments in line with IT security policy
  • Report network operational status by gathering and prioritising information, and managing projects.
  • Upgrade data network equipment to the latest stable firmware/software releases
  • Installing/removing software on Linux/Android/Windows-based devices.
  • Configure routing and switching equipment, hosted IP voice service, and firewalls.
  • Provide remote support to on-site engineers and end users/customers. Visit the remote site where necessary.
  • Using Wireshark and other tools to monitor TCP/IP streams where necessary.
  • Get access to debug logs where necessary
  • Undertake capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centres.
  • Trace and Debug application software, especially in relation to SIP Endpoints
  • Liaise with project management teams, third-line engineers, and service desk engineers on a regular basis
  • Speak to customers via email and phone for initial requirement capture.

Salary and Holidays:
  • The starting salary will be £25 per annum based on a 37.5-hour week and will rise in accordance with experience
  • 20 Days plus Statutory Bank Holidays
  • Company Pension
  • Car Mileage Allowance when visiting remote sites

Working Hours: You'll typically work a standard week (Monday to Friday – 9.00 AM to 5.00 PM. However, you may be on call outside office hours, at weekends or in the evenings, and you will need to be flexible in case of major technical problems occurring.

What to Expect:
  • The work is primarily office-based, although you may need to work across different remote sites 
  • The job can be challenging, particularly when things go wrong, as customers are dependent on their systems
Qualifications: A degree qualification in at least one of the below related subjects is required:
  • Computer science
  • Computer software/computer systems engineering
  • Computer systems and networks
  • Electrical/electronic engineering
  • Network security management
You will be expected to do further study (Self Learning and further professional qualifications)

Skills Required: You will need:
  • An up-to-date knowledge and understanding of your employer's business and industry needs, as well as the technical demands
  • To recognise the importance of customer focus and/or of serving the needs of the end user
  • Excellent communication skills for communicating with staff who aren't technically trained
  • The skill to take on a variety of tasks and pay attention to detail
  • Analytical and problem-solving ability
  • Teamwork skills and the ability to feel comfortable working with different teams, clients, and groups of staff across an organisation
  • Organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your workload.
  • Be fully computer literate and be able to use project planning tools, such as Microsoft Project
Work Experience:
  • Relevant work experience is desirable but not essential
Professional Development:
  • Due to the rapidly changing nature of the industry and the skills needed, you'll need to make training a constant part of your career development.
  • You will have to seek out appropriate training for yourself, where you feel this will be beneficial to the company and your personal development
  • Courses can be expensive, and you may have to pay the fees yourself, so make sure they're relevant to your career development aims.
Career prospects:
  • The company has a clear vision for growth, and as a result of that, new job opportunities will arise

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