Network Deployment Engineer

From our headquarters in London, we’re busy empowering organisations to make bold, strategic moves with the power of data and technology. Founded in 1975, our operations take place from multiple offices across the UK, Europe and India with over 1600 full-time employees and an annual turnover of £179m. Our expertise spans industries, from retail and education to public sector and transport – delivering intelligent solutions that drive progress and create measurable impact.

About Network Services

CACI Network Services is a rapidly expanding specialist IT and Networks consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within challenging and exciting environments with our major clients in Global Media, Banking, Government, Telecoms & Utilities.

The role

A Senior Network Engineer is required to join the Deployment Team, responsible for the deployment and planning of our customers' network infrastructure. The team is responsible for the delivery and deployment of network/security projects and requests to enhance the client’s infrastructure to meet current and future business demands.

Key responsibilities

• Plan, manage and deploy technology changes to support DC services.
• Deploy LAN infrastructure to support end user services requirements.
• Includes patching schedules for facilities to cable network equipment.
• Diagrams for Network Operations.
• Inventory management.
• Create implementation plans for RFC’s to a high level of detail.
• Correctly document pre and post checks for change verification purposes.
• Understand and document back out plans, clearly identifying back out points.
• Identify points of no return.
• Support the stability and uptime of essential services by planning changes with a documented best approach mindset.
• Identify where changes can be completed with zero downtime to hosted services.
• Plan and implement changes with a cost-effective resource strategy.
• Identify, understand and document change risks and mitigation tactics.
• Identify, understand and document impact of planned technology changes, including documentation expected output from verification.
• Document network estate for Operation Support and to support change planning.
• Complete network diagrams to a high standard.
• Peer review and validation of technical deployment plans.
• Provide constructive feedback to peers to support change control requirement and maintain high standards of detail and quality offered by CACI.

Core skills, knowledge and experience required

• Good level of Cisco Routing & Switching.
• Proficient with multiple routing methods, route summarization.
• Designs medium enterprise routing domains.
• Experience in EVPN Implementation Deployment.
• Automation/scripting experience in Python.
• Experience in configuring VLAN trunking, EtherChannel, Layer 2 redundancy.
• Designs Layer 2 topology to avoid loops, tuning STP for large networks.
• Designs medium to large enterprise switching networks.
• Ability to handle numerous separate projects concurrently.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail.
• Able to implement BGP policies, communities, route maps.
• Analyse, review and understand network topologies.
• Experience in designing rack layouts, structured cabling for medium DCs.
• Able to implement BGP/OSPF within data centres.
• Designs hybrid DC connectivity (MPLS, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute).
• Coordinate multiple projects, change management and governance efficiently working both independently and as a member of a team.
• Good understanding of networking principles.
• Good customer facing skills with the ability to keep the customer informed at all times and understand their requirements.

Expected behaviours

• Proactive.
• Adaptable.
• Flexible.
• A team player.