-Senior Network Engineer -Permanent -Glasgow/Hybrid -Salary to £55,000 per annum + excellent benefits package inc company equity
Fantastic new opportunity to the market to join our Glasgow-based Fintech client, specialising in managed Cloud provision. The business is now recruiting for a seasoned Senior Network Engineer, as they continue to grow their tech team from their newly opened, state-of-the-art tech hub in Glasgow.
Our client is a true Scottish success story, who support some impressive clients globally and have just raised significant funding to embark on the next phase of their journey. They have enjoyed continued growth, year on year, since they were founded and now feature on the London Stock Exchange, with over 100 staff members globally.
This is an exciting time for an experienced Network Engineer to join the business, with the opportunity to complete a diverse range of projects within the organisation.
You will be part of a highly technical team, managing the global networks and will assist with the technical delivery of all services across the network. You will hold responsibility for queries across technical design, best practice and deployment methodologies, as well as acting as an escalation point for all Network Operations.
Working with the network and infrastructure teams to ensure client up time and liaising with internal/external customers to understand technical requirements through to resolution will be central to the role. There will be further responsibility to investigate and diagnose network-related incidents and analyse / upgrade network resources where required, including router/switching upgrades.
Skills/Experience Required
- Extensive technical background with Cisco routing and switching technologies.
- Strong understanding of the technologies and challenges in data centre environments.
- Broad understanding of Juniper network environments (EX/QFX Switching, SRX Firewalls) - JNCIP preferred.
- Strong understanding of Juniper SRX security appliances.
- Analyse and upgrade network resources - router/switch/uplink upgrades.
- Deployment and maintenance for the trading, WAN and public network infrastructure.
- Maintenance of network uptime.
- Responding to customer queries and adhering to contracted SLAs.
- Financial Services experience is beneficial.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management.
Nice to Haves
- Experience of network design in large data centres.
- Experience with Arista low latency switching environments.
- understanding of VXLAN/EVPN deployment and management.
- Network Automation/Programming using Python and/or other scripting languages.
- Thorough understanding of Linux and Windows Server OS.
If you are keen to find out further detail around this opportunity, please forward an updated CV to