Senior Network Engineer
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Senior Network Engineer - Birmingham

Great opportunity for a talented Network Engineer in an exciting and fast growing group of businesses. The successful candidate will carry out a varied role which will require a mix of skills, experience and customer facing charm. Working with a great team of people in the renowned Custard Factory in Digbeth, Central Birmingham, this will be a fantastic job for the right person.

This is an excellent opportunity to provide customer focused support, whilst allowing you to work across a varied technical environment and develop your skills.

What Does a Network Engineer Do?

•You will have excellent knowledge of IT networking products and services and be experienced in a number of the following; Fortinet, Cisco PIX, Cisco CSA, RSA, Surfcontrol, Nokia, Alcatel, and Asterix phone systems. Cisco/HP/Netgear routing & switching
•You will ideally have experience in complex networks with exposure to VOIP and VLANs.

-Excellent knowledge of networking products and services, with experience in:
•Cisco routing & switching
•HP switching
•Netgear Switching
•Fortinet routing & switching
•Cat5e cabling

-Experience & Knowledge in managing complex networks with exposure to:
•VLANs
•STP/PVST/RSTP
•QoS
•VOIP

-Experience & knowledge in telephony:
•Alcatel OmniVista Phone system
•Asterisk configuration and management
•Digital/Analogue phone adapters (Linksys & Grandstream)
•You will also have excellent communication and problem solving skills, be confident in liaising with clients, staff & management with regular client visits
•Responsible for maintaining up to date documentation (including physical verification of the data and communications infrastructure) of the estate.
•Maintenance and improvement projects to ease support requirement and complexity of the network (including standardization of cabling and clean and clear access to equipment on site).
•Managed Service of our Firewalls through an established change control process, including and not limited to low level configuration changes, monthly reporting and license renewals.
•Responsible for proposing future network and security solutions as well as full project costings, planning and implementation. Ensure the network/s are up to date, fit for purpose and providing both value for the clients and profit for the business.
•Occasional ad hoc desktop and server support for tenants and/or central office.
•You will have the minimum of 2 years’ experience in support environment
•You will ideally be CCNA OR CCNP certified

“I’m a Network Engineer and I Just LOVE…”
• …delivering a great service and solving IT problems.
• …business technology and communications.
• …documentation and finding innovative solutions
• …working hard to achieve great things.

So, Am I Right for the Job?
If you can tick the boxes below, we really ought to talk
• Ideally CCNA-CCNP qualified
• Experience with VOIP phone systems
• At least 3 years experience in networking and/or security.
• Customer facing experience

If you think this role is for you then please log on to http://jobs.itlab.com/ and click on the IT Lab –Birmingham –Senior Network Engineer link to continue Or just email us at HR@itlab.com

Good luck and please bear in mind we receive a very high number of applications; we will endeavour to get back to all applicants, however, we thank you for understanding this is not always possible for unsuccessful applicants.
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