Your new company
Schroders are looking for an experienced Network Operations Engineer to join their growing Technology team.

The Global Communications team are responsible for telephony, IT Estates, networking and security infrastructure. This role has a primary focus on campus and data centre networks, wide area networks as well as Internet hosting, market data and B2B environments as well as next generation firewalls, load-balancers and cloud platforms. Ideally they are looking for candidate who can bring a genuine interest in operations for their networking and security infrastructure and work in a fast paced environment.

Your new role

• Work as part of a Global multi-locational cross-matrix team in a dynamic environment
• Be a key part of the team to drive forward and maintain their technical estate
• A predominantly operational role, but with change and project work as required
• Working closely with other teams such including Service Desk, Platforms, Information Security and User Services
• Proactively own incidents, problems or issues adhering to SLA's and OLA's where relevant
• Act as a technical resource for change requests and project works
• Act as a technical resource for maintenance, firmware upgrades, and recurring patch cycles
• Utilise documented Standard Operating Procedures and other documentation provided
• Work using ServiceNow to update incidents and requests
• Have awareness of the technology roadmap for existing and new technologies
• Shift work, weekend work and being on-call will be required

What you'll need to succeed
CCNA qualification, but ideally holding or working actively towards CCNP and working knowledge of the following;-

• Branch & Data Centre Switching & Routing
• Wireless technologies, setup, troubleshooting and security
• Enterprise Firewalls especially CheckPoint and Palo Alto
• Internet routing and security
• Understanding of cloud technologies is a big plus
• Common interior and exterior routing protocols
• Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPN technologies
• Proxy technologies, Bluecoat or McAfee
• Load Balancers
• IP Address management and network services such as DNS, DHCP and NTP
• Network management, monitoring & Diagnostic Tools
• Network probes and packet capture analysis

What you'll get in return
Training and Development opportunities, work with the latest Technology and be part of a high performing team.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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