Network Consultant

**Network Consultant**
**Lancashire**
**Hybrid Working**

My client is a leading managed service provider who are looking to recruit a Network Consultant with experience in designing and deploying Juniper network solutions for their client in the Lancanshire area.

As a Network Consultant you will be primarily responsible for delivering low level designs and leading implementation and testing phases of network transformation projects.

**Network Consultant Benefits**:

- Life Assurance of 3 x basic salary (company provision - no cost implications to colleague).
- Pension scheme - employee contribution of 5% of salary, matched of 5%.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum plus 8 public holidays (calculated pro-rata if a colleague starts part way through the year).
- Holiday purchase scheme of up to 10 day per annum - two purchase windows in December and June.
- Reward Gateway
- employee discounts, reward and recognition.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Occupational Health.
- Eye Care Vouchers - for eyesight tests and contribution to purchase of glasses.
- Free onsite parking
- Travel support and Railcard subsidy.
- 1 x Membership Fee to a Professional Body/Institute re-imbursed (receipt required).
- Study assistance.

**Network Consultant Responsibilities**:

- Input into implementation and deployment planning.
- Creation of solution and component based test strategies and test scripts.
- Review and contribution to Low level designs in accordance with customer requirements,.
- Ensuring a consistent billable utilisation of 75%, escalating to the Networking Practice Lead when this is not the case, and identifying billable activity to increase utilisation.
- Responsible for maintaining own industry knowledge and utilising this to implement best of breed networking solutions and suggest growth areas.
- Work within multi-disciplinary teams, including Programme and Project Managers, Service Man-agers, Operational and Project engineers, as well as external stakeholders to achieve delivery outcomes and maintain high customer satisfaction.
- Input in to technical discussions with customers, presenting designs, test plans, and other arte-facts to ensure stakeholder understanding and approval.
- Input into project reporting, including status reports to ensure an aligned message to the cus-tomer.
- Proactively raise risks, issues, and dependencies which may impact project delivery and comple-tion to the project manager and appropriate internal stakeholders.
- Complete pre-staging and testing of network components in line with the project scope.
- Support implementation engineers during the deployment phase, aligning to best practices and ensuring design adherence.
- Complete 'as is' documentation to aid knowledge transfer and handover into Operational sup-port

**Network Consultant Skills**:

- Experience in design and implementation of Juniper networking transformations, including wireless and LAN
- Experience in delivery of ClearPass.
- Up to date accreditations in Juniper technologies.
- Experience in transitioning a network-ing transformation from project into operational support.
- Knowledge of technical change control processes, writing and presenting tech-nical changes for approval
- 5+ years' experience in Wireless and LAN technology implementation and design.
- Experience engaging with customers and internal stakeholders to manage-ment level.
- JNCIA

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