Our client is a Global Healthcare business, this company currently has applications in over 6000 hospitals globally along with a work force of over 3000 people. Given the international scope of this company we are looking for a high level Network Engineer to join and work within the businesses IT Infrastructure Team.

This role will involve working in a demanding and fast-paced environment. As a senior member of the IT Infrastructure team this role is expected to independently install, deploy and upgrade network equipment; design and implement network optimisation projects; support business teams on joint-initiatives as a technical advisor. This role will also be expected to participate in Network and Security planning, implementation and support. This role will also assist Helpdesk support activities, and share 24/7 on-call responsibilities as required.

This role will involve the following:

• Participate in major network initiatives, detailed network designs and deployments as well as coordinating technical issues with clients, vendors, and internal teams.
• Design, installation, maintenance and monitoring of network systems including switches, routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and switch and firewall-based policies.
• Responsible for expert-level troubleshooting of any problems relating to global networking issues.
• Adhere to IT access-management incident response and change control procedures.
• Develop IT infrastructure project plan, technical specifications, design documents, roll-out and test plans.
• Contribute to IT policies and process development using industry best practices.

Contribute to mentoring junior staff and knowledge transfer to global team.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years IT experience with on-going skills development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to travel.
• Vendor management; communicating with vendors globally.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills. Ability to rapidly identify and resolve issues under pressure
• Self-motivated, results-driven, and well organized
• Ability to handle multiple tasks with a clear sense of ownership and priority
• Strategic minded, and strive for constant operational improvements in a changing global environment
• CCNP certification preferred
• Strong experience with networking protocols: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VRRP, HSRP, VPN, IPSEC, VoIP, and QoS
• Experience in WAN/LAN networking including routing, switching, security, load balancing
• Working knowledge of Enterprise Datacenter environment
• Recent knowledge of Cisco network equipment required, NAC, Wireless controllers, ACS, Prime, UCS, Nexus 5K switches, Catalyst series, div Router series.
• Experience in or worked with Unified architecture. Conceptual and hands-on.
• Proven experience on remote access technologies (VPN like technologies), including use with mobile devices
• Proven knowledge of Checkpoint firewalls and Cisco ASA.
• Knowledge of Citrix load balancers.
• Knowledge of VoIP, QoS and multicasting.
• Knowledge of network monitoring tools. I.e. Solarwinds and IPSwitch
• Experience in Network Appliance NAS/SAN environment (FCoE, FCP, CIFS, ISCSI) preferred

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