3rd Line Cloud Network Engineer - Perm - Defence

3rd Line Cloud Network Engineer / Permanent / Defence

• Location: Basingstoke
• Type: Permanent
• Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 + Company Bonus + Clearance Bonus + Benefits
• Clearance: Must be eligible for MOD DV (Sole British National)

A primary technical partner of the MOD are looking to add to their infrastructure innovation team. This role will be working with an existing team, collaborating with teams on supporting the mission of keeping UK Defence agile and safe.

Your role will involve:

As a 3rd Line Cloud Network Engineer you will join a small dynamic team of 2nd and 3rd Line engineers. Your role will involve carrying out planned activities via a Change Management Process, monitoring the system using Event Management tooling and responding to incidents via the Incident Process including triage of incidents and escalation via the Service Management Team. Examples of tasks:

• Responding to escalations from 2nd Line Daily checks utilising ITSM tooling.
• PKI certificate management for Networking devices (physical and virtual).
• To distribute software, firmware & security updates for network devices.
• To collaborate and support the design and engineering teams.
• Maintaining and supporting the virtual and physical network solution providing timely updates to the Operations Lead.
• Carrying out a readiness assessment for new releases entering service from the Engineering Team
• Producing and maintaining documentation such as (Work Instructions and Patching Schedules).

Key skills and experience:

• Experience working with Cisco Catalyst switches, Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco ISR and ASR routers, and Cisco ISE
• Experience with Juniper Apstra, Cisco ACI, or other Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies would be highly advantageous
• Cloud Administration (e.g. Broadcom: NSX-T)

Your transferable skills and experience:

• Firewall Management (e.g. Cisco Firepower Management Centre)
• Network Devices (e.g. Cisco IOS, NXOS & FXOS \ Juniper Devices & JUNOS)
• Network Authentication (e.g. Cisco ISE)
• Event Management Tooling (e.g. SolarWinds)
• ITSM Tooling & Processes
• Cloud Administration (e.g. Broadcom: vCenter - Use of, not Administration)

Your benefits:

• 25 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)
• Pension - Double matching contributions of up to 10%
• Life assurance
• Companywide incentive plans
• Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)
• Perks at work - employee discounts
• Employee assistance programme / virtual GP

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