Network Engineer | Cisco | Checkpoint | Palo Alto

Network Engineer | Cisco | Checkpoint | Palo Alto

The role is 100% home based.

My UK based client are looking to recruit an experienced Network Engineer for their internal team. You will be supporting a user base with more than 1500 users, within a team of 20.

The role

The Network Engineer provides day-to-day IT networking support to the business. As a key point of contact for the IT team, you will build, deploy, co-ordinate, and maintain the networking IT environment the company needs to run and external operations

This role is within our Infrastructure team and will assist in both business-as-usual activities as well as key local and strategic projects.

Duties, skills and experience:

• Configure and install various network devices and services (eg, Routers, Switches, Firewalls, load balancers, phone system, VPN, QoS, SIP, BGP SDWAN, SASE, etc) in Data centre scenarios
• Experience in Checkpoint/Palo alto Firewalls and Cisco Switches
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
• Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability
• Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning
• Provide troubleshooting support to resolve issues
• Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure
• Evaluate and implement security tools, policies, and procedures in conjunction with the company's security team
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution