Network Engineer

5 days ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Context Recruitment Full time £55,000 per year

Network Engineer – Contract

Birmingham (hybrid working, 2 days per week WFH)

Up to £550 p/d
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Network Engineer required to join the IT Department of a well-known and public-facing critical national infrastructure business (circa 2000 staff, 20 in IT with approx. 40 sites in the UK), providing services to hundreds-of-thousands. You'll operate as part of a small, highly capable IT team supporting fairly complex Infrastructure and contributing to large-scale projects.

You'll initially be supporting a variety of projects detailed below, including assisting in resolving a number of security audit findings and closing off security vulnerabilities flagged up by a recent pen-test. You will also support the general administration and maintenance of network system and act as a 3rd line escalation point for tickets escalated up from the Service Desk.

Currently the role is split circa 50% Project vs 50% BAU support.

Minimum required skills and experience:

  • CCNA (or equivalent experience)
  • Expert in setting up and maintaining VPNs
  • General Firewall / Switch configuration; experience with both Cisco and HP Switches would be beneficial, as would any exposure to CheckPoint firewalls.
  • Troubleshooting faulty sites - BT routers / Switch / Firewalls.
  • Experience of Security Audit remediations would be beneficial; addressing vulnerabilities flagged by scanners (in this case, Tenable), and Pen tests.
  • Production / maintenance of Network Diagrams (Visio)
  • Solarwinds administration (or similar monitoring tool).
  • Windows Server / VMWare Administration an advantage (not a requirement).#

Initial 3 month contract (very likely to extend)

Location; Birmingham with flexibility to work from home two days per week.

Occasional travel (paid) to other UK sites required.

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