Network Consultant

About Persistent: We are a trusted Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world including 14 of the 30 most innovative US companies, 80% of the largest banks in the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

About Position and details:

• Location: Harbour Exchange Square, London
• Mode: Hybrid (2 to 3 days to office)
• Experience: 6 to 15 years
• Job Type: Permanent role

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• In-depth knowledge of design, implementation, configuration and testing of the following:

• Routing – OSPF, BGP, knowledge of route redistribution and manipulation.
• WAN - MPLS, Internet, VPN, SDWAN, understanding of circuit commissioning.
• Datacenter – ACI spine and leaf, APIC, VxLAN and distribution switching.
• Encryption - IPsec VPN, MACSec, configuring site-to-site VPN on routers and firewalls.
• Switching and L3 - HSRP, VRRP, GBLP, NTP, STP, RSTP, QoS, CoS, SVI, VLAN’s, ACL’s.
• WiFi – Cisco Meraki and Cisco Wireless LAN controllers with Lightweight APs.
• Firewalls – Cisco ASA/FirePOWER, Conversion from ASA code to Firepower, Checkpoint, Fortigate, ACL’s, CSM/FMC.

Qualifications / certifications:

• Engineering/Computer Science Degree or industry related qualifications, such as AWS and Cisco Certifications.

Operational:

• Provide last line support for solutions delivered by the engineering function in line with existing IT service management processes.
• Act as an escalation point, for the managed service, for problems pertaining to network technology and with a view to re-engineering.
• Successfully transition the support of new network technologies to the support team. This will include preparing written documentation, such as a ‘Handover to Support’ document, and include product training, where required.
• Perform all changes to standards across the whole network stack, including cloud, on-premises datacenters, including internet edge and ACI Fabric, branch, WAN, and operate CSM/FMC to deploy firewall rules where required.
• Assist in the network audits and any security compliance reporting or adherence to security or compliance related processes.
• Participate in the transformation of documentation. This is to assist in building a set of ‘best practice’ documents in relation to Network Security.
• Engage with third parties, assisting on high impact network issues. This would entail joining a bridge and working with vendors.
• Engage with third party vendors, such as Cisco TAC or other.
• Have familiarity with Network Admission Control products such as Cisco Identity Services Engine.
• Solid troubleshooting skills with the ability to provide a packet capture on the FW and debugging thereafter.
• Solid understanding of routing and switching.
• Understanding of QoS.
• Understanding of Unified Communications.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards.
• Annual health check-ups.
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents.

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