Network Engineer

The team  The Network engineer reports to the Head of Infrastructure Engineering. During sprints and projects, may indirectly report to a virtual team lead from another discipline and vice-verse. This role is required to work closely with internal other departments and is part of the Infrastructure Engineering group; externally the Network Engineer works closely with suppliers and customer support teams.
Your Opportunity  This is an influential role that demands a high level of creativity and a genuine passion for new technology and methods. Working in a team of highly-skilled technologists, this role is responsible for maintaining the systems that ensure our operation runs 24/7/365.
The applications we support have to be highly reliable, highly scalable and take full advantage of our platform and global reach. Team.

Blue prides itself on the creative use of technology. As the boundary between the application-layer and platform-layer becomes increasingly blurred, this role is pivotal and demands a broad technical understanding and passion for the Hosting industry.
What You Will Do   Part-of the Infrastructure & Engineering team deploying and maintaining highly reliable, highly scalable systems and applications
To expand, configure, support, maintain and administer the Team.

Blue internal and external networks.
Manage and monitor the network and enforce security.
To utilize and support the monitoring systems, used for monitoring the network and distribution, including, but not limited to Grafana, Libre

NMS, Icinga etc.
Provide support, exception handling and mentoring regarding networking systems and security to relevant Operational teams, and other support teams
Collaborating with users;
Translate user needs into solutions
Manage tools through their entire life-cycle; including documentation and version control.

Your Profile   Excellent knowledge of Network Security and firewalling
Excellent knowledge of Juniper & Arista switches and routers
Excellent knowledge of (MFA) authentication systems (e.g. LDAP, Radius, Tacacs etc.)
Good knowledge of configuration automation tools like Ansible
Good working knowledge of (routing) protocols like IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, VXLan, EVPN, etc.
Good working knowledge of penetration testing, OS and system hardening
Good knowledge of VPN and encryption technologies (IPSEC, SSL)
Good knowledge of
* nix operating systems.
Good knowledge of monitoring systems (Libre

NMS, TSDB systems, Grafana, etc.)

Working experience in a
* nix environment

Working experience of virtual environments and High availability
Setting up and maintaining centralized logging and monitoring.
Willingness to get stuck into hardware specification and provisioning
Excellent troubleshooting skills

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