We need a degree qualified Senior Network Engineer with strong CISCO experience for an international media network dedicated to giving a voice to the voiceless in some of the world’s most unreported locations.

As Senior Network Engineer your key responsibilities will be:

• Engineering, designing, configuring, installing, integrating, maintaining, and troubleshooting of enterprise LAN/WLAN/WAN networks and systems (enterprise converged networks, wired and wireless).
• Network Security - Firewalls, Intrusion detection, incident response and escalation, security policy articulation and compliance checking.
• Identify network trends and abnormalities and proactively take steps to prevent performance impacts to network traffic and business function.
• Perform pro-active support functions and reporting to maintain the integrity of the enterprise network equipment and infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting internal and external routing problems.
• Assessment and optimization of the LAN/WLAN/WAN networks, through network monitoring, statistics, and daily health checks.
• Maintains accurate and comprehensive documentation diagrams of Network Infrastructure.
• Network performance evaluation, monitoring and optimization.
• Systems and user support.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• Strong Cisco experience - CCNP
• Experience in LAN/WAN and network Security
• Experience with Cisco IP Telephony.
• Experience with Wireless systems
• Experience with network traffic analysis, QOS, VoIP and converged networks.
• Intermediate experience in Layer 2 technologies. E.g. STP/RSTP/VSS
• Intermediate experience in Layer 3 technologies, gateway load balancing protocols (VRRP/HSRP) and dynamic routing protocols (OSFP/BGP).
• Knowledge of Quality of Service, IPSec, Multicast and load balancing.
• Experienced in firewall design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Strong problem-solving and logical analysis skills.
• Strong documentation and/or technical writing skills.
• Excellent communication skills.

While not essential, experience of the following will be highly advantageous:

• Palo Alto Networks Certification - ACE or CNSE.
• Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining IPS.
• Remote access VPN (IPsec, GRE, 3DES or AES VPN Tunnels).
• Experience working in a 24x7 environment.
• ITIL knowledge

What are the benefits?

- Take on a varied role where no two days are the same

- Build on your existing expertise with an international broadcaster

- Work on the cutting-edge of technological change

- Diverse, team-oriented and engaging work environment

- Join an award-winning team who share the passion of having a significant impact in the world

This is a full time permanent role on days Monday - Friday but will include being on call out of hours.