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  • Manchester, Greater Manchester
  • £50,000 to £55,000
  • (Permanent)
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An exciting opportunity for a Senior Network Engineer (3rd line) to join a leading UK education company.

This role is the highest point of internal escalation for all networking requests, projects and strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will need to show a strong sense of ownership and accountability and be comfortable managing operational and strategic aspects of networking infrastructure.

The Senior Network Engineer is a key part of IT Infrastructure Team and as such will not only manage the day-to-day operations but direct current and future infrastructure initiatives both in the UK and abroad.

The role is based in Manchester with a salary of £50-£55K plus a 10% on call allowance and an attractive benefits package.

The Senior Network Engineer will: -

- Define, implement and maintain networking and security standards across campus locations and primary data centres
- Proactively manage, monitor and support the enterprise network and systems infrastructure
- Lead/facilitate meetings and presentations to technology and business staff and communicate technical concepts into understandable business initiatives
- Maintain and monitor the technical overview of the client's networking environments
- Manage and mentor staff
- Manage change control and device configuration management activities on all network systems
- Act as SME for escalated issues and questions from technical governance and the wider organisation, as well as providing procedural support
- Be the primary driver in the project management of network related initiative

You should have: -

CCNA qualification
- A proven track record for achieving results and project management of network projects
- Experience as a senior network engineer with management or mentoring responsibilities
- Extensive experience and understanding of Cisco Technologies; specifically IOS, NXOS, VLANs and Dynamic Routing Protocols (OSPF, BGP), Cisco WiFi and DMVPN
- Some knowledge of Cisco Meraki technology
- In depth knowledge of the OSI networking model and TCP/IP protocols
- Experience of LAN switching and WAN technologies, or experience involving transmission/traffic engineering and operations
- Familiarity of Internet technologies and tools (eg Apache, IIS, Tomcat, Weblogic, SMTP, SSL, DNS, Firewalls, Proxy devices and load balancers)
- ITIL experience for incident, problem, and change management

Benefits -
The employer is one of the UK's leading private universities dedicated to business and the professions and offers professional, apprenticeship and degree qualifications. The company offers excellent career development opportunities and free access to its portfolio of courses, in addition to a flexible and comprehensive benefits package which includes private medical insurance, contributory pension, childcare vouchers etc.

The role is a full time and permanent position offering between £50k-£55k depending on experience plus 10% on call allowance.

This company is acting as an employment agency regarding this position