Network Design Consultant - Bridgend -Employment, career opportunity in UK

Job Title:  Network Design Consultant - Bridgend
Job Type:    Permanent
Location:    Bridgend
Start Date:    ASAP
Salary:    £55k - £65k pa
Ref No:    166576-SFSF641_398350


Network Consultant x3 - Cisco Technologies - Cisco Nexus - CCNP or CCDP - Security Clearance required - £50-65k - Bridgend
Our Client, a leading Consultancy, seeks an experience 3rd Line Network Support Specialist with sold experience in Cisco Technologies.

Day to day responsibilities:
- To provide technical support within Telecommunications service operations.
- To understand Client's internal and customer networks, including assignment as lead engineer for specific customer accounts
- To pro-actively investigate and advise on service and design improvements across the range of telecommunication services
- To engage in audits, reviews, and document Client's and customer infrastructure where required as part of service improvement initiatives, including visiting customer premises
- Defining capacity, performance, and error thresholds in line with industry best practice
- Defining house-keeping policies in line with industry best practice
- To provide input to/or lead service improvements related to network toolsets and automation
- To investigate and resolve complex and high-priority incidents on telecommunication/network services passed from 1st and 2nd line teams
- To work on problems related to telecommunications services
- To liaise with third party providers of services (public telecoms operators, software and hardware maintainers)
- To liaise with application, server, database, SAN, and security teams during complex incident or problem investigations
- Providing input to disaster recovery plans and providing support during disaster recovery tests
- To contribute information and data that may be required for periodic reviews with Third Party vendors to ensure compliance with agreed processes, procedures, and Service Level Agreements - Authoring and maintaining documentation related to networks services, such as topology diagrams, IP lists, asset lists etc. - To be part of an on-call rota providing cover outside of standard business hours for high-priority.

Skills / experience required:-
- In-depth knowledge of Cisco technologies
- CCNP & CCDP required. Preferably working towards CCIE qualification
- Experience of Cisco Nexus required
- Knowledge of one or all of the following technologies/equipment is extremely beneficial:- F5 Load Balancers / Cisco ACE / Fortinet / Bluecoat Packeteers / Packetshapers / Juniper networks / HP networks (Pro-Curve) / Cisco Wireless / Aruba wireless / Extricom wireless / VoIP, IPT, UCC / Microsoft Lync / Ipanema / Riverbed
- Strong service improvement mind-set
- Knowledge of ITIL
- Able to travel within the UK
- Strong knowledge of network automation toolsets

*This role has SC clearance as mandatory due to the nature of the work. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the UK's vetting process. Non-UK nationals applying for vacancies where a security clearance is a mandatory requirement, must meet the UK's 5 year residency criteria in order for their application to be considered
Hy-phen Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.




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