Sr Network Engineer – Kings Cross, London

Music is Universal. It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.

Job Summary: We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.

UMG is currently seeking an eager and exceptional individual to join our Network Build Team. The position will be responsible for technical ownership and delivery on infrastructure projects, focusing on larger and more complex deployments, and for infrastructure aspects of Application projects. Requires a strong technical experience in enterprise network deployment and migrations. The position is also responsible to guide and mentor junior members of the team to strengthen the overall implementation team.

Job Functions:

• Utilize technical skills to coordinate network enhancements and deployment efforts.
• Develop and implement migration plans.
• Develop designs and configurations for network and security equipment.
• Physically install network and security equipment to support designs.
• Turnover implemented work to the operational support teams including development of operational processes, documentation, and training. Ensure network project documentation is complete and accurate.
• Utilizing knowledge of technology, UMG’s business needs, and UMG’s capabilities, serve as a liaison between stakeholders and UMG IT.
• Review proposed solutions to ensure the delivery of a quality product or service.
• Confirm the alignment of customer expectations and implementation plans.
• Provide documentation and communication to peers and management for status, coordination, objectives, and performance.
• Work with service providers for the coordination, delivery, and testing of network circuits.
• Assess and troubleshoot, consult with vendors, and coordinate with other teams for problem resolution of build activities.
• Ensure compliance with incident, problem, and change management procedures and standards to ITIL standards by all Sourcing Provider(s).
• Attend technical project review meetings. Ensure project technical designs meet UMG’s operational requirements are in compliance with UMG infrastructure and security standards.
• Develop and present training to both the implementation and operations teams.
• Mentor junior members of the implementation team.
• Work with the engineering and operations teams to facilitate knowledge transfer between teams, enhance designs based on field experience, improve operational procedures, and to develop automation to improve delivery.
• Other tasks as deemed necessary or appropriate.

Job Requirements:

Skills/Abilities:

• Cisco CCNP or greater in Route/Switch preferred.
• Engineering/Architect level experience in Routing & Switching and Security.
• In-depth knowledge of BGP and OSPF network protocols including:

• eBGP/iBGP peering
• Use of route reflectors
• Use of communities and route maps for route manipulation
• ASN management

• SSID creation
• First level wireless troubleshooting

Experience:

• Experienced IT professional with 5+ years overall experience and minimum of 3 years as a Network Engineer in large scale network.
• Experience in the design and delivery of customer-facing and executive level presentations (2 years minimum).
• Experience configuring and/or administering firewalls (Palo Alto preferred) (2 years minimum).
• Experience with Cisco Data Center Technologies including: N7K, N9K, and N2k (2 years minimum).
• Experience interpreting and implementing Network designs in both Greenfield and Brownfield deployments.

Just So You Know… The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.