The role involves network engineering, project management, and troubleshooting across various technologies, focusing on design, implementation, and escalation support for clients.
Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.
We are seeking a contractor with exceptional technical deployment and troubleshooting skills covering a wide range of technologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of network security and associated technologies and be able to demonstrate a logical and methodical approach to design, implementation and troubleshooting.
Here’s what the role looks like:
- Candidates must have excellent communication skills and be able to lead projects from design through to implementation and take ownership of problems to ensure the necessary steps are taken to diagnose and troubleshoot issues.
- Project Engineering, including but not limited to Low Level Design activity, implementation services and consultancy services.
- Provide expert level support to all clients and act as an internal point of escalation for all support related incidents where required.
- Troubleshooting and diagnosis of all network and security related incidents
- Mentoring other members of the team
- Participating in the on-call rota
Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:
- Extensive experience in a similar role or field based / consulting role
- CCNP, Routing, Switching & Security with Data Centre experience in Nexus
- Strong understanding of network security principles and associated technologies
- Experience of troubleshooting complex enterprise networks and associated technologies
- Knowledge of Wide Area Networking technologies and associated routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF and BGP is essential to this role
- Experience of administering and troubleshooting the following technologies and platforms is essential
- Cisco ISR and ASR Routers (2900/4000/1000ASR)
- Cisco Hyperflex and UCSx
- Cisco ASA Firewalls
- Cisco Switching (3850/3650/2960X/4500X) and associated technologies such as VTP, STP, VSS
- Cisco Data Centre Switching (Nexus 5K/7K/9K) and associated technology such as VPC and VDC
- IPSec VPN Configuration and Administration
- Cisco FirePOWER IPS
- Cisco FirePOWER Threat Defence
- Cisco SD-WAN o Cisco DNAC and Prime
- Cisco Wireless – WLC’s (C9800 series)
- Palo Alto Networks Firewalls
- Azure and AWS cloud environments
- You will be required to pass Security Clearance
- Offshore certification is desirable
- Experience of administering and troubleshooting the following is desirable
- Cisco Meraki Wireless, Security and Switching technologies
- Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
- Cisco ACI - Application Centric Infrastructure HP and Aruba Platforms
- Cisco DevNet API, SDK
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Bgp
Ccnp
Cisco Aci
Cisco Asa
Cisco Asr
Cisco Devnet Api
Cisco Dnac
Cisco Firepower
Cisco Hyperflex
Cisco Ise
Cisco Isr
Cisco Meraki
Cisco Prime
Cisco Sd-Wan
Cisco Switching
Cisco Ucsx
Cisco Wireless
Data Centre
Eigrp
Ipsec Vpn
Nexus
Ospf
Palo Alto Networks
Routing
Security
Switching
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