ION - Network Engineer - Routing & Switching (4-10 yrs)

Your duties and responsibilities :

- You will perform troubleshooting and diagnosis for network issues involving routers, switches, and firewalls, including taking and analyzing packet captures

- Work with Fidessa infrastructure groups in other regions.

- Interfacing with vendors and service providers

- Deploy network infrastructure following established design standards

- Perform general maintenance on routers, switches and firewalls

- Troubleshoot issues in a complex Internet/Extranet environment

- Provide Level 1 and Level 2 network support

Your skills, experience, and qualifications :

- Trustworthy and able to abide by strict change controls

- 4+ years of network engineering experience in an enterprise environment

- Committed to getting the job done and done well

- Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail

- Good time management and planning skills

- Organized and able to use initiative to prioritize work and able to adapt to changing workload priorities

- Takes ownership of delegated tasks and sees things through to completion

- Enthusiastic and highly motivated

- Calmness under pressure and ability to remain focused on service

- Ability to create and maintain strong working relationships

- Comfortable with configuring, installing, troubleshooting, Cisco/Juniper/Arista/Checkpoint routers, switches and firewalls

- Significant experience working in data centre environments

- History of large-scale DC network support preferred

- Experience with financial networks preferred

- Cisco CCNP certification is a must

- Juniper/Checkpoint certification preferred

- Business Level language skills in English

- Clear, accurate and concise written and verbal communication skills

- Familiar with Linux (preferably RHEL)

- Enterprise experience with firewalls such as Checkpoint, Juniper SRX, Palo Alto

- In-Depth knowledge of routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, PIM, RIP

- In-Depth knowledge of Layer2 protocols: STP, 802.1q, VPC, LACP

- Must have knowledge of traffic engineering and QoS

- Proficient with configuring and troubleshooting VPNs

- Proficient with network packet capture and analysis

- Proficient with creating network diagrams with MS Visio

- A thorough understanding of TCP/IP

- Experience working with Network Monitoring Systems e.g. PRTG, Nagios