Principal Network Engineer - Contract - Hybrid - 3 days onsite
- Centurion, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Establish the networking environment by designing network Solutions as per defined Network Strategy to improve the resilience of the current Environment.
- Maximise the network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting high end network problems and outages, scheduling and implementing upgrades.
- Collaborate and consult with other BU Architects / Owners to effectively optimize the network environment.
- Investigate LAN, WAN and Firewall environments using information from multiple sources.
- Securing of network systems and company IT Infrastructure by establishing and enforcing policies and defining and monitoring access.
- Support and administer firewall environments in line with IT security policy.
- Report network operational status by gathering and prioritizing information and managing projects.
- Upgrade data network equipment to the latest stable firmware releases to ensure compliancy.
- Configure routing and switching equipment, hosted IP voice services and firewalls.
- Provide remote support to on-site engineers and end users/customers during installation.
- Capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centers.
- Liaise with project management teams, third-line engineers and service desk engineers on a regular basis.
- Lead an Automation and Innovation strategy.
- Matric and tertiary qualification.
- 5 years experience as a Senior/Principal Network Engineer or Solutions Architect. (CCNP , NSE4, CCIP, CCIE)
- Solid networking foundation to deploy and troubleshoot Layer 1,2, and 3 protocols as well as DNS, Proxy, load balancers, and firewalls.
- Senior Level experience with Network Optimisation services.
- Senior Level technical understanding of LAN and WAN technologies, including multiple network operating systems and hardware platforms such as Cisco, HP, Aruba, SDWAN and Fortigate.
- Technical experience with installing, configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting and supporting network components (LAN and WAN environment) and protocols (BGP , EIGRP , OSPF).
- Broad infrastructure knowledge/experience on Enterprise systems such as Active Directory, Voice, Infrastructure systems.
- Experience in Azure, AWS and Cloud based systems.
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