Focal Network Engineer, £48k - 50k

Focal Network Engineer, £48k - 50k

3 months initially, London

Bench IT requires an experienced Network Engineer to join a large organization, delivering enterprise-grade networking across routing, switching, wireless, and security platforms. The engineer will work across both physical and virtual infrastructure, translating high-level network designs into detailed low-level designs, configuring and maintaining Cisco technologies (including Nexus, Catalyst, Meraki, DNA, and Prime), and supporting core services such as DHCP, DNS, and AD. You will participate in both the support of managed service customers as well as bespoke project work.

*This role will include On-call standby rota with other team members to support 24x7 customers

Required Knowledge/Experience:

• Demonstrable aptitude in technical design, configuration and fault-finding
• Experience of Enterprise networking deployment across Routing, Switching, Wireless and Security hardware platforms.
• Good working understanding of Network Server builds to deliver DHCP/DNS/AD services across both physical and virtual machines.
• Appreciation of the Azure global cloud computing platform
• VRF/VLAN/IP Configuration
• PRTG configuration and monitoring experience
• Firewall policies, access lists and rule sets creation and modification.
• Capable of converting high level network designs to low level network designs.
• Vendor licensing registration/generation.
• Maintains personal knowledge of vendor technology developments.
• Familiarisation with Cisco suite of networking products including Nexus, Catalyst, Meraki, DNA and Prime
• Hold or are actively pursuing a minimum level accreditation of CCNP Routing & Switching.
• Clear and concise report writing.

Desirable

• Understand third party IP applications/concepts ie, BMS, Lighting Controls, CCTV etc.
• Cisco Software Defined Networking (DNA) configuration and deployment experience

Focal Network Engineer, £48k - 50k

3 months initially, London