Network Engineer

Opticore IT are currently searching for a Network Engineer who is operating at a CCNP level with strong general routing and switching knowledge to come and join the team. You'll join our excelling team, based in the London area.

Opticore IT is a rapidly expanding specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within challenging and exciting environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.

You will be joining our existing team within our Brodacast Media client working on multiple project streams at any one time. This is a Hybrid opportunity with a minimum of 2 days a week in the office.

What you'll be doing:

• To support all the different corporate internal clients and develop solutions and resolve issues

• Provide engineering services to our clients technology teams

• Assist with strategy and architectural decision making

• Provide technical domain expertise to network design authority as required

• Identify potential issues or risks within the network estate, escalate for discussion, plan and implement remediation

• Ensure best practice design standards are being adopted across the network estate highlighting any areas for potential improvement

• Pre and post change tests, using automation

What you'll bring:

• Good knowledge of switching and routing, across a number of routing protocols, but specific knowledge and history of BGP is a requirement.

• Good industry experience across a number of areas in the Network space.

• Certification to CCNP equivalent levels

• Demonstrable Security knowledge - Palo Alto Firewalls including Panorama, virtual and physical devices

• Previous Wi-Fi experience - ideally experience with Juniper Mist

• Keen interest in automation

What you’ll gain:

Here at OpticoreIT we believe in investing in our team as we understand that we are only as great as our engineers, so learning and development is a big deal for us. Whether you’re going for a CCNP, CCIE, Hashicorp, Python, Cloud Technology or anything in between OpticoreIT has your back with all our training, labs, courses, and shared knowledge and the most important part it’s all free! On top of that, we also give you:

• Competitive Salary & discretionary bonus

• 23 days holiday + bank holidays

• Private healthcare & dental

• Pension

• EV car, workplace nursery, tech, and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes

• Team & Company Social events

• EMI share scheme

Diversity:

At Opticore IT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.