Reporting to the technical team lead, the network engineer will be focused on designing, building/implementing and supporting, enterprise network infrastructure (Network, wireless, data center, Cloud) solutions to address business and technical requirements, leveraging industry and standard principles and patterns. The job holder will also be an escalation point for complex technical support incidents from a team of support engineers and customers.
Requirements

Design, build, deliver, and operate Network and Data Center solutions to meet client requirements
Provide documentation for solutions delivered to clients
Work with project managers and other delivery teams to ensure that solutions provided to customers are delivered within specified timelines
Liaise with go-to-market technical architects to ensure that solutions provided to clients are well scoped and fit for purpose
Highlight risks, provide alternative options, and recommend quality solutions to specified problems
Where feasible, use automation to reduce delivery time and human intervention on repetitive tasks
Act as subject matter expert on a variety of technologies within the enterprise networks (LAN, WAN, VPN, Data Centre, Wireless and Cloud)
Guide on change management on change management when integrating solutions provided to customers.
Guide and/mentor junior engineers

Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field of study
At least 3 years in the enterprise networking field
Relevant industry standard certifications, e.g., ITIL
Cisco Professional level networking Certification i.e CCNP, CCIE
Expert level network security certification i.e, NSE4, NSE7 (SD-WAN)
DevOps certification and experience scripting and network automation will be an added advantage.

Key Skills

Design, implementing, administering, and strong troubleshooting experience on the following:
Experience in designing, implementing and supporting SD-WAN solutions (Cisco Viptella, Meraki, Fortinet)
Experience in designing, implementing and supporting SD-DC solutions (Cisco ACI, VMware NSX-T)
Experience in designing, implementing and supporting SD-Access solutions
Knowledge and experience in deploying Data Center interconnect technologies; Cisco OTV, VXLAN
Knowledge and experience in deploying and supporting IP routing protocols, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP
Experience in designing, implementing and supporting enterprise wireless solutions
Knowledge and experience in deploying F5 Application Delivery Controllers (Load balancers, Global Traffic Managers, DNS)
Working knowledge on enterprise security solutions; firewalls, NAC, MDM
Good reporting and presentation skills