Cisco Network Campus Implementation Engineer

Contract:
Network Campus Implementation Engineer

Start Date: ASAP

Duration : 12 months months extendable

Location:
Hybrid - 2 to 3 days on site in London each week

Rate: £400 a day (Deemed Inside IR35 via Umbrella)

Reference: 20481

Immediate contract to work on a large Financial Services client to deliver a large Network Campus Implementation project.

A major refresh and refurbishment programme underway in large office campus in London including a live trading floor and other critical business functions.

We are seeking two experienced Network Engineers to support design, implementation and delivery of campus network changes. YOU MUST HAVE BOTH WIRED AND WIRELESS CAMPUS EXPERTISE shown on your CV.

• Demonstrable large enterprise experience (ideally Financial Services) - this is not a support-led role.
• Strong project delivery skills - planning, preparing and driving network work streams.
• Ability to guide project managers through logical sequencing of network activity.
• Proactive in pushing other teams (cabling, AV, security, end user) for the information needed to deliver to plan.
• Comfortable producing and following templated, repeatable designs at scale.
• Project-based mindset - genuine out-of-the-box implementation experience rather than BAU fixing.
• Someone used to delivering kit, instructing others, and carrying out switch migrations and refreshes
  , not just troubleshooting.

• Strong routing and switching background
  , including experience deploying devices into a Data Centre and working with data centre-grade kit.
• Recent, hands-on experience deploying in a Network Campus environment specifically.
• User Wi-Fi experience
  , including the practical nuances of working alongside construction teams during deployment.
• 
  ** Cisco Catalyst switches with strong Wi-Fi - Wireless Campus experience - this is a key differentiator for this role.
• Able to build to the standard expected in live operations, with security considered from the outset rather than bolted on.
• Load balancing (e.g. F5) although not a priority for this role.

• Cisco Catalyst switching - 6500, 4500 and 9410 platforms.
• Cisco wireless access points across multiple generations - 3800 series through to 9130 series.
• Cisco wireless controllers - 5520, 5508 and 9800 series.
• Cisco Catalyst Centre and Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
• Heavy use of BGP and Layer 3 routing domains in a campus context.
• General awareness of firewalls in a campus context (deep firewall engineering is not required).
• Basic multicast configuration - sufficient for use cases such as office screens / digital signage.
• Voice VLAN configuration to switch port level (no end-to-end voice engineering required)
• Load balancing (e.g. F5) although not a priority for this role.

• Engineers must understand the operating norms of a highly regulated environment, in particular strict change control and the consequences of unauthorised actions on production. Banking experience is preferred but other regulatory/controlled environments are acceptable.

Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.