Technical Specialist - Birmingham, United Kingdom - SCC

SCC

Verified Company

Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About The Role:

Role
:
Technical Specialist - Networks

Location
:
Birmingham (Hybrid working options)

Contract Type
:
Permanent

Salary Package
:
£45,000 - £52,000 (DOE), plus Car/Allowance & benefits

Interview Process:

2 stage

Why SCC?

An inclusive workplace
Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
Hybrid working in line with role requirements
Career development and lifelong learning opportunities
Opportunity to join Europe's largest privatelyowned IT Company

Further growth and expansion means we have a new opportunity for someone to join our highly collaborative technical team, who has a high level of experience but who has an aspiration to move into a technical architect role in the future.

This role will provide you with a great opportunity to gain good exposure to networking technologies, progress your career into architecture, while you help shape the future networking capabilities of networks.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage and own the functional operation of Switches, Firewalls and Routers within the environment
Performing Firewall Configuration, troubleshooting and Administration
Monitoring and maintaining switching infrastructure to agreed service levels
Managing incidents and problems appropriately within agreed service levels
Creating and performing authorized changes to customer environments, attending CABs where necessary
Completing software and hardware upgrades periodically
Ensure technical documentation is completed and updated to professional standards
Contribute to the continuous improvement programs of all technology platforms across the Data centre
Assist with the acceptance into service into operational support for all new implementations and enhancements/upgrades
Contributing to delivering team performance
Cover on call as part of a team rota

Key skills & experience:

Essential:

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Strong background with troubleshooting core network technologies in large scale / datacentre deployment
Experience providing support to enterprise level clients in a multivendor environment
Good working knowledge and experience with Cisco technologies:
Cisco ASA's
Cisco Routers/Switches
Nexus Series Switches
Juniper
VSS
Good working knowledge and experience with VPN technologies:
SSL Remote Access VPN
IPSEC SitetoSite VPN
Experience in providing out of hours support to a 24/7 environment

Desirable:

Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (CCNA Security)
Knowledge and experience with Fortinet technologies:
Fortigate Firewalls
FortiManager / FortiAnalyser
Fortinet SDWAN
F5 Loadbalancing
Meraki managed devices
Cisco FirePower Management Centre\ FirePower
DMVPN / DVTI / GRE
ITIL qualification or awareness of the ITIL processes
Experience of working in a multiclient solutions provider

About Us:

SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences.

We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment.

No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.