Senior Network Consultant - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Advanced
Description
Role Introduction:
Advanced is a business that embraces innovation, enabling its customers to seize every opportunity and transform their business. Life at Advanced begins in an exciting environment in a role that matters.
Due to continued growth, we are looking for a confident
CCNP/ level networking consultant** to join the Managed Services business unit within Advanced.
As a senior network consultant, you'll have the opportunity to work across a broad range of networks and networking technology that we manage on behalf of our customers.
- and low-level designs for customers.
What You Will Do:
Working within our Managed Services division, you will primarily be fulfilling customer design and implementation requirements as part the professional services teams:
- Planning, design and implementation of complex networks for major corporate and government clients. You will be producing high quality, customer facing HLD and LLD documentation.
- Implementing new networking technologies and delivering change on existing customer systems and across our core network
- Work with Pre-Sales to develop and refine technical solutions across the product lifecycle.
- Working with architects in the business to design costed roadmaps and process improvement.
What You Will Have:
- Excellent problemsolving skills and ability to devise and implement strategies beneficial to Advanced and our clients.
- Extensive handson experience with Cisco firewalls, routers and switches.
- Experience and appetite to work with a broad range of network technology is desirable, including Palo Alto firewalls, NetScaler, Juniper & HPE/Aruba switching, Meraki fullstack and NAC e.g. Cisco ISE technology
- Understanding of dedicated hosting, colocation, private cloud and IT outsourcing.
- Experience and/or recent study of Azure networking and Express Routes is desirable.
- Indepth knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, fabric infrastructure, storage networking and planning network services.
- Ability to diagnose deep problems by using tooling such as SPAN and NetFlow.
- Indepth knowledge of network security best practices.
- Effective time management skills, ability to multitask and prioritise under pressure.
- Comfortable working across multiple customers and projects within any given week
- Strong communication skills, written and oral, conversing at all levels with customers, prospects and internally.
- Be selfmotivated, tenacious, disciplined, enthusiastic and resilient.
- CCIE or CCNP
- Microsoft Azure
- AZ900
- Microsoft M36
- MS900
What We Do For You:
Wellbeing focused - Our people are our greatest assets, and ensuring everyone feels their best self to come to work is integral
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Annual Leave - 25 days of annual leave, plus public holidays and the ability to buy additional days
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Employee Assistance Programme
- Free advice, support, and confidential counselling available 24/7 through Care First
Endometriosis Friendly Employer
- We are proud to confirm our commitment to developing an environment and culture that allows those with endometriosis to thrive in the workplace
Personal Growth:
- Regardless of where you are at in your career, we're committed to enabling your growth personally and professionally
Development Programmes
- From Future Managers to Leadership Training, our development programmes help you get where you need to go
Performance Bonus
- Our Groupwide bonus scheme enables you to reap the rewards of your success
Financial wellbeing - We understand as well as your mental wellbeing, your financial wellbeing is really important
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Pension Scheme
- Our plan with Scottish Widows offers 5% matched contribution by the company
Income protection insurance
- Providing you with support and assistance when you need it most
Recognition - Highlighting and rewarding the great work our people do
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Values Awards
- Our quarterly employeedriven initiative to highlight and reward the people in the organisation who embody our values the most
Clear Review
- Our own technology platform that allows you to get realtime feedback, conversations and goals to help you become your best self
Making a Difference - we provide opportunities to help our people make a difference to the causes they care about
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MatchIt
- Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and Advanced will match part of the funding
Volunteering Time
- Our volunteering leave scheme allows you to use your time to help those who need it
Pennies from Heaven - donate the pennies from your pay check to help make a differen
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