Job Description

Scope of Responsibility:

The Senior Systems Engineer (Network) will be responsible for the planning, project management and deployment, administration and operations support for network to ensure that systems, services and applications are performing optimally to meet customer, user, and company expectations.

This technical role covers the following work areas:

? Technical design, administration, implementation, troubleshoot and management of Network and Data Centre infrastructure

? 24x7 Operations Support including scheduled on-call duties

? Vendor management, project management for network related projects and provide support to other Technology projects

? Documentation including RFQ/RFP technical specifications/diagrams, operations manuals/guidelines

? Backup role for Data Centre Facilities Management services including audit support and/or additional tasks assigned by supervisor.

? The primary work area is network and secondary work area is data centre facility management.

Experience

Mandatory:

Minimum of 5 years' experience in supporting, maintaining and implementing Network and/or Data Centre Facilities Management (Cisco/Alcatel/Juniper Inter-Networking Solutions) technical administration and support.

Excellent understanding of common network technologies, including TCP/IP, IPsec, VRRP, HSRP, SNMP, NAT, Multicast, Sub-netting, Ethernet, Access-lists.

In-Depth Working Knowledge and understanding of the following routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, MPLS.

Familiar with the setup and configuration of network security devices such as firewalls, wan optimisers, virtual private networks and authentication servers etc.

Proven working knowledge, implementation and administration experience of high availability Network Security devices (E.g. Checkpoint, Cisco Firepower, SRX, Palo)

Proven knowledge of DNS, time synchronisation, Proxy, F5 Load Balancers, Infoblox

Proven knowledge in switch and router configuration, including storage switch configurations

Monitor & measure the performance & availability of network devices proactively; implement corrective actions identified to improve performance & service level availability and capacity planning.

Experience on the various Network Management platforms (E.g. MRTG, Cisco ISE, Algosec etc.)

Minimum of 5 years' experience in managing vendors in terms of procurement, writing and managing RFQ/RFP, project management, problem resolutions.

Managed network projects successfully with proven track records.

Working knowledge of DRP (disaster recovery plan) and BCP (business continuity plan)

Education

Mandatory

Degree in IT or engineering or equivalent.

Minimally possess technical network certification (CCNP-Routing and Switching and Data Centre) or higher

Preferred

Possess Technical network certification (CCIE)

Possess technical certification (CDCP, CISSP, related certifications preferred)

Job Type: Contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: $7,500.00 - $9,000.00 per month

Benefits:

Health insurance
Work Location: In person