Contract: Network Implementation Engineer
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 12 months
Location: Hybrid - 2 days on site in London each week - Must be flexible. Some out of hours and weekend work required during the contract
Rate: £375- £400 a day (Deemed Inside IR35 via Umbrella)
Reference: 20481
Immediate contract (after background check completion) to work on a large Financial Services client to deliver a large Network Implementation project.
- Demonstrable large enterprise / Financial Services experience - this is not a support-led role.
- Strong project delivery skills - planning, preparing and driving network workstreams.
- Ability to guide project managers through logical sequencing of network activity.
- Proactive in pushing other teams (cabling, AV, security, end user) for the information needed to deliver to plan.
- Comfortable producing and following templated, repeatable designs at scale.
Essential:
Strong, hands-on expertise in core routing, switching and wireless within a large enterprise campus environment.
Specifically:
- Cisco Catalyst switching - 6500, 4500 and 9410 platforms.
- Cisco wireless access points across multiple generations - 3800 series through to 9130 series.
- Cisco wireless controllers - 5520, 5508 and 9800 series.
- Cisco Catalyst Centre and Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
- Heavy use of BGP and Layer 3 routing domains in a campus context.
Desirable:
- General awareness of firewalls in a campus context (deep firewall engineering is not required).
- Basic multicast configuration - sufficient for use cases such as office screens / digital signage.
- Voice VLAN configuration to switchport level (no end-to-end voice engineering required)
- Load balancing (e.g. F5) although not a priority for this role.
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
