Senior Network Engineer

Management Level

Senior Network Engineer

Overview of Equiniti Group

Introduction

Equiniti is a leading UK FinTech company, specialising in providing complex administration and payments solutions underpinned by world-class proprietary technology platforms. Equiniti has over 2,000 clients spanning the private and public sector including 50% of the FTSE 100. They process £72 billion in payments every year, handle 88 million documents, 2.6 million enquiries, and pay 20% of pensioners in the UK. Their services benefit 30 million people in the UK and 180 countries around the world. Over a third of the UK population has dealt with the Equiniti at some point during their lives. Equiniti is a company that has been built with strong values at the very core of their offering. Dealing with some of the most successful companies and government agencies in the UK, excellence, integrity, professionalism, partnership, commercial and innovation are therefore at the heart of everything they do.

We employ over 4,300 people across 31 locations and our average length of service of our employees is 10 years. Equiniti is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

Equiniti is a rapidly changing, ambitious and dynamic business and we look to employ people who, like us, put the customer at the heart of everything they do. Over the last 7 years we have made 16 acquisitions to create an exciting organisation which focuses on innovation and technology.

Role overview

Role involves a mixture of implementation/installation and operational support for the network estate and Data Centres, working with multi-vendor technologies, including switches (IOS and NX-OS, Junos), routers (ASRs and ISRs) and firewalls (ASA-X, Juniper and Checkpoint UTM SPLAT).

This role requires oncall duty between 5 to 7 weeks a year.

Key Skills

• Candidate must demonstrate experience with Public Cloud networking – AWS and Azure
  • Cloud Connectivity
  • Cloud firewall
  • Market place
  • 3rd party SDx modules
• Candidate must demonstrate experience with network automation
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
• Experience with Cisco Technologies(Routing, switching, VPN)
  • Cisco Routers
  • Cisco Firewall Security
  • Cisco Switches
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN)  - site to site and remote-access VPN’s
  • Wireless Network
• Good understanding of different WAN technologies – traditional MPLS-like and  SD-WAN
• Experience with Juniper Technologies:
  • Firewalls
  • Routers
  • Switches
  • Wireless Network
• Experience with Fortinet Technologies:
  • Firewalls
  • Routers
  • Switches
  • Wireless Network
• Candidate must demonstrate Infrastructure as code – Automation in the network stack
• Experience with load-balancing technologies:    
  • F5
  • KEMP
• Experience with DNS platforms
• Can-do attitude and willingness to learn new technologies

Desirable

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Network field
• working, demonstrated hands-on product and technology skills in several above-mentioned areas
• strong practical knowledge of Security platforms and technologies, and strong practical knowledge of troubleshooting Routing and Switching protocols BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and STP
• HSRP, TCP/IP, IPSEC protocols
• strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills
• strong written and verbal communication skills

Certifications

• CCNP certification
• ITIL v3 certified – Foundation or Advanced
• Graduate Degree B.Sc. or equivalent
• F5 Certified – nice to have

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.