Network Engineer (3 month contract)

We're supporting a leading organisation in Oxford that is seeking a Network Engineer on a 3 month contract and be responsible for designing, deploying, managing and maintaining all aspects of the global network and physical infrastructure, ensuring the best possible uptime and availability to support the business’ customers, goals and growth.

What we're looking for…

In this role, you'll need to interact and engage with other teams and explain technical issues to non-technical staff. As such, we're looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who can develop and maintain productive working relationships. You'll also have good organisational skills, the ability to handle multiple projects and work items and a keen attention to detail. If you are currently certified, this would be a bonus.

We'll also expect you to have the following experience, knowledge and skills:

-Experience running, managing and implementing all aspects of a global enterprise network architecture (WAN, campus and data centre)

-Strong technical experience managing, supporting and optimising:

-Enterprise and data centre routing and switching architectures, including OSPF, BGP, ECMP, and VXLAN.

-Network security architectures and SASE, including firewalls, VPN and IDS/IPS.

-Data centre power, cooling and cabling standards, including experience of single and multi-mode fibre optic networks.

-Experience working with WAN providers and fibre network infrastructure, including DIA, SDWAN, wavelength and dark fibre circuits.