Senior Network Engineer Dundee   £35,000- 40,000 plus company bonus and on-call allowance

We have an innovative culture that particularly suits inquiring, open and busy minds. A career with us will be both challenging and rewarding. We are focused on professional development and are dedicated to offering opportunities for you to learn new technologies. We believe the better trained our staff are the better service we are able to provide to our customers. In addiiton to the above salary we also operate a company bonus scheme and an engineering on call rotsa which would offer increased remuneration.

brightsolid online innovation consists of the two sister companies of online publishing and online technology. Working for the online technology division you will provide managed hosting, high speed connectivity, robust disaster recovery and business continuity services from our state of the art data centre. We utilise the latest virtualisation technologies and are a trusted technology partner for a broad range of businesses and government organisations throughout the UK.

This is a technical leadership role in which the role holder has responsibility for the day to day management of a small team of IT professionals responsible for the ongoing development, support, installation and maintenance of brightsolid’s internal Infrastructure, Managed Hosted Clients’ Infrastructures, and Data Centres.  As the Senior Network Engineer you are responsible for maintaining the ISP core network, and directing and maintaining Networking Engineering Standards within the Infrastructure Team.  You  will work closely with the Network Consultant to design and implement new networks, by liaising directly with customers to understand and meet their requirements. 

Your key responsbilities include;

• Ensure the optimal operation of ISP Core Network through
  • Good understanding on monitoring systems and SNMP protocol
  • Gather symptoms
  • Isolate fault
  • Rectify fault

• Responsible for mentoring, coaching, appraising and development of the team members, including assigning individual KPIs.
• Ensuring that all work planned in the Data Centre is authorised, planned, quality checked and documented for ownership, accountability and traceability.
• Overseeing and planning regular maintenance and testing in the Data centre, in conjunction with 3rd party maintainers.
• Ensuring that the Infrastructure Team has a set of procedures in place to deal with Incidents, Problem Management and Configuration Management.
• Ensuring that the Infrastructure Team has systems in place to monitor the health of all our networks.
• Ensuring that an appropriate set of metrics are defined, agreed and regularly published in order to demonstrate the quality of our networks and systems in terms of availability, traffic, security, and incident management.

You must have thorough knowledge of new RFCs and RIPE policies and will propose improvements to the existing brightsolid infrastructure. In order to be succesful you should be Degree qualified in a relevant discipline or appropriate Industry qualifications with strong leadership experience, good negotiating skills, commercial awarness and be customer focused with experience in a client facing environment.

 The technical skills required for the role are;

• Expert level understanding of all TCP/IP layers and performance issues
• Certified to at least CCNP level
• Expert level understanding of OSPF including areas, inter-area filtering and redistribution
• Expert level understanding of BGP including peer groups, inbound and outbound filtering ,redistribution
• Expert level knowledge of Layer 3 switching , Spanning-tree (PVST+) and Spanning tree optimization, MST,CST
• Knowledge of network topologies and system design for high availability networks.
• Experience with MPLS networks, including configuring and troubleshooting
• Awareness of Emerging Technologies
• Installation, configuration, maintenance and ongoing support in a data centre environment of :

1. MS Windows Servers
2. Linux (Redhat) Servers
3. Web servers (IIS and Apache)
4. Oracle/SQL database

If you wish to apply or to find out more infomration please send your CV to recruitment@brightsolid.com.

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