Skills: Infrastructure Architect, Architect, Solution Architect, Design, Infrastructure, LAN, WAN, Implementation 

Our London based client has an unique opportunity for a Senior Infrastructure Architect to join their team on a permenant basis, this is an exiciting chance to join the business at a critical point in their development as you will be responsible for designing the whole setup for a critical project.

The Infrastructure Architect will work as part of a small technical design team, within larger projects, to achieve technical and business change. All work will be carried out in collaboration with service business and technical stakeholders.

The core activities of the role are:

• Lead the design of the network infrastructure for shared forensic services across forces, including mobile access.
• Manage the implementation of secure networking for a hybrid cloud 
• Work closely with network engineers and systems architects to understand and overcome their constraints and challenges.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of networking technologies and techniques to ensure best practice / use of proven patterns in the configuration of appliances and virtual networks.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience of networking platforms and systems in the public sector / law enforcement.
• Able to deliver transformational change – mobile and cloud enabling enterprises.
• Creates real and measurable business value, as evidenced by operational solutions.
• Depth of experience in configuring secure network technology - routers, firewalls, etc.
• Experience in the design of LANs, WANs, VPNs, virtual networks, and hybrid clouds.
• Able to design, build, monitor, and load balance highly available secure networks.
• Knowledge of how to setup and monitor gateways, e.g. for remote / device access.
• Understanding of constraints with current networks (PSNP, Airwave).
• Proven delivery of solutions to enable access to mobile / remote / local networks and apps.
• Working knowledge of virtualisation technology and container-based deployment.
• Understanding of information security constraints and best practice.
• Able to lead architecture sessions on network design in complex environments.
• At least three years’ experience as an architect / lead designer of major network solutions.
• Proven ability to collaborate with team members and a wide range of people.
• Demonstrates good organisational skills giving the ability to deliver to timeframes and estimates.
• Demonstrates good written, oral, comprehension and presentational skills.
• Proven capability in the documenting network designs.

Please submit you CV for immediate consideration. 

3rd Line NOC Engineer - Juniper, Cisco

Location: Basingstoke

Salary: £45’000 per annum

Days: Monday – Friday / standard day working hours

Contract Duration: Permanent

A market leading network and communications service provider requires a customer focused NOC Engineer to provide operational support to specific customer networks. This would suit an ambitious Engineer looking to work in a more customer focused role, and who would benefit from excellent career opportunities on offer.

This position will provide dedicated or semi-dedicated operational support to a specific Managed Service customer’s network. You would be responsible for assuring proactive alarm management, network analysis, routine maintenance, health checks, and crisis management, as well as being an escalation point for the Service Desk, Customer, and Service Managers.

The position includes some queue, workload and team supervision responsibilities, and the role is expected to be a technical focal point and SME within the team for the customer’s network; validating escalations into 3rd level Technical Support, 3rd Party Vendor, and Local Exchange Carriers. Duties also include training other members of the NOC group and associated assurance teams.

Essential Duties:

• Resolution and diagnosis of network and system faults at a 3rd line support level through proactive alarm management and technically escalated Service Desk faults. Monitor and action the trouble ticket queues on a daily basis in a timely and professional manner. Take ownership of complex investigations.
• Provide operational assistance to all areas of Service Operations, mentor and train members of the NOC and Service Desk.
• Monitoring the network performance, highlighting any deficiencies through the appropriate channels via network health checks and statistical analysis.
• Monitoring the network performance, Identification of activities that present risk to the live network. Action and resolve using the correct processes and procedures.
• Management of technically escalated issues that may require hands-on management of 3rd party vendor activities and customer liaison.
• Drive resolution of customer issues from end to end

Requirements:

• The position NOC Technician III requires an advanced understanding of IP networking specifically Cisco and Juniper, demonstrated via certification and operational experience.
• A minimum of 6 years’ experience working on Data/IP networks within an operational environment; completing 1st/2nd level diagnostics across multiple technologies and Vendors.

• Demonstrative experience in Incident Management and Service Operations environments
• Willing to go through a Security Clearance
• Good supervisory and people skills.
• Ability to train and mentor lesser experienced members of the team.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to converse technical information in a manner appropriate to multiple audiences.
• Organisational skills with ability to work within defined service level agreements and effectively multi-task.
• Advanced 3rd line technical competency level that spans all IP related technologies.
•  Proactive attitude with an ability to take ownership of issues.
• Train Service Desk staff on technical, functional and procedural items.
• Excellent customer focus

Education

• A-level or above, CCNP and/or JNCIS
• Telecommunications or other related industry field of study.

Should have an advanced knowledge of one of more of the following:

• Cisco CLI & CPE hardware

• Juniper CLI

• IPVPN & MPLS networks

• Switching and Routing Protocols

• Failover Protocols, HSRP,GLBP,VRRP

• LAN managment

• DSL/secure DSL

• Ethernet Services

• ISDN services

• Statacom and Lucent ATM

• APM (Application and performance monitoring)

• Any other task as defined by line management.

If interested in this position, please apply today to be considered for the shortlist.

Skills: Cloud Solutions, Architecture, Cloud Architect, AWS, Azure, ASP.Net, Cloud, Pre Sales, IaaS, PaaS

Our industry leading client requires a Cloud Solutions Architect to join their growing team on a permenant basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join a company at a key point in their growth and development. 

Please note that candidates can be based out of a number of locations: Birmingham, Cheshire, Belfast, London, Newcastle, Leeds or Glasgow. 

Responsibilies: 

• Educate, guide and advise on architectural best practices on the public cloud (AWS or Azure)  
• In collaboration with Sales and Pre-Sales Architects, drive revenue growth for both new and existing customers 
• Act as technical lead for public cloud engagements 
• Assit in redining and maturing public cloud strategy 
• Ensure alignment of business and technical objectives for internal and customer projects 
• Provide thought leadership to internal colleagues across Sales and Service Delivery 
• Enable internal teams through training and the creation of new tools and processes  

Skills & Experience:

• Deep understanding of public cloud computing, including IaaS, PaaS, and servless.
• 2 years experience with the AWS and/or Azure platforms
• 3 years experience working in technical pre-sales or customer facing architecture
• Significant experience of architecting and implementing cloud solutions
• Experience in leading technical workshops
• Good knoweldge of relational and non-relational databases
• Understanding of DevOps practices and associated tool sets
• Undertanding and identity and access managmenet
• Commercially aware with strong client facing and vendor relationship management skills
• Ideally the right candidate will also hold one or multiple accreditations associated with AWS and Azure 

Please submit your CV for immediate consideration. 

Principal Security Engineer- £85,000

My client is a major player in the professional services sector, they deliver and support solutions and services which enable organisations to create, improve and operate the IT and communication networks. Due to expansion they are recruiting for a Principal Security Engineer top join their team.

About the role

The role of the Principal Engineer is to be the most senior technical resource to resolve highly complex technical design or service issues that cannot be resolved through the normal operations and maintenance procedures and provide leadership for root cause analysis. 

The succesful candidate will also support the Sales and Presales teams to provide the technical expertise required to close sales opportunities. This will typically involve technical presentations, solution demonstrations, solution design/configuration, proposal and bid response documentation.

Skills

• Experience working with customers on all aspects of security including policies
• Hands-on experience with firewalls, NAT, SIEM and understanding of IDS and IPS principles
• Ideally can demonstrate a networking background to CCNP level

Key Deliverables

• To act as an internal technical escalation point and to be able to mentor/coach internal resources to achieve a higher level of service.
• To train internal staff on product and network. To devise and deliver training programs and support documentation for Operations.
• Provide Technical assistance to the sales teams in whatever format is
• Assist customer and vendor teams with the validation of new products, software and services to ensure trouble free network introduction.
• To provide expert consultative support during major software upgrades
• Provide input to the customer to ensure operational needs are taken into account and to assist defining monitoring and troubleshooting requirements.
• To take a lead in efforts to respond to performance related issues.
• To assist in the design of Proof of Concept scenarios,
• To attend, as required, customer facing meetings

Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Car Allowance
• Healthcare