Cisco Network Engineer - Hybrid working

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cisco Network Engineer to join a leading organisation. This role offers a competitive salary of £45-55k. Based in Salford, this role offers the chance to work within a dynamic team environment where you will be responsible for supporting and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins production services. dynamic and growing business. This role encompasses various areas, including support for systems and projects.

CISCO NETWORK ENGINEER

Salary: 45-55k
Location: Salford (hybrid, some field work required)

Keywords: Cisco, Network, Engineer, IT, Infrastructure, SD-WAN, Network Security

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cisco Network Engineer to join a leading organisation in the field of Information Systems and Technology. This role offers a competitive salary of £45-55k, along with an excellent benefits package that includes performance-related bonuses, contributory pension scheme, life assurance, and generous holiday entitlement. Based in Salford, this role offers the chance to work within a dynamic team environment where you will be responsible for supporting and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins production services.

* Competitive salary of £45-55k
* Excellent benefits package including performance-related bonuses, contributory pension scheme, life assurance
* Opportunity to work in a dynamic team environment in Salford

What you'll do:
As a Cisco Network Engineer, you will play a crucial role in supporting the infrastructure that underpins our client's production services. You will be responsible for ensuring solutions within your domain are aligned with controls, standards, policies, procedures, and quality levels. Your role will involve collaborating with domain functional specialists and project managers to deliver infrastructure services. Additionally, you will proactively monitor alerts and logs while troubleshooting and deploying fixes for incidents within set targets.

* Proactively support and maintain infrastructure that underpins production services following IS&T governance, policy, and processes for their domain.
* Support solutions within their domain in line with controls, standards, policies, procedures, and quality levels.
* Maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, service partners and suppliers.
* Collaborate with domain functional specialists, project managers, and key business SMEs for the delivery of infrastructure services within domain.
* Proactively monitor alerts, queues, logs and take appropriate action including ITSM recording of incidents.
* Troubleshoot and deploy fixes for SR's, incidents, and problems, within SLA/OLA targets and quality standards.

What you bring:
The ideal candidate for the Cisco Network Engineer role will bring a wealth of experience in working with Local Area Network technologies. You will have an understanding of advanced network concepts such as SD-WAN and network segmentation. A strong knowledge of Network Security is essential for this role. Previous experience in a complex IT networks role is key to success. Additionally, candidates must have resided within the UK for a minimum of 5 years to successfully complete security clearance.

* Experience working with Local Area Network technologies including switching, routing, firewalls, wireless etc.
* Understanding of advanced network concepts such as SD-WAN, network segmentation, VLANS.
* Strong knowledge of Network Security.
* Previous experience in a complex IT networks role.
* Residency within the UK for a minimum of 5 years to successfully complete security clearance.

What sets this company apart:
Our client is a leading organisation in the field of Information Systems and Technology. They are committed to being an inclusive employer, welcoming applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. They are a Disability Confident Leader employer, committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. They also support the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within their recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists.

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