Network & Server Engineer

Network & Server Engineer

Permanent - Full-Time

£40,000.00 Annual Salary + Benefits

Brixworth, Northamptonshire

2-3 days on-site per week in Brixworth

My award-winning, smart technology, software solution client has a great opportunity to join their customer centric organisation as a Network & Support Engineer.

This role requires a a Network & Server Engineer with around 2-3 years+ experience operating at 2nd - 3rd line level with hands-on Fortigate Firewall, Cisco and Linux Server experience.

Role Description:

• Participate in network installations and projects; including Firewalls, Switches and other network communications.
• Maximize network performance by troubleshooting network problems and outages and monitoring performance.
• Deliver proactive and early notification of potential and actual issues impacting service delivery.
• Provide frequent communication to leadership during and post incident to include root cause and corrective action plans.
• Maintain and manage Linux & Windows server infrastructure environment, cloud and on-premise.
• Assist with advanced level maintenance actions including system back-ups, error log reviews, and integrity checks.
• Use data collected from a variety of management tools (Bitdefender, network access control) to analyse events for the purposes of mitigating threats.
• Serve as an escalation point for any unresolved issues or requests. Develops processes and procedures around disaster recovery and disaster recovery testing.
• Take accountability for assigned ticket requests throughout the life span of the support request and drives all tickets to completion within the established SLA.
• You will be maintaining services on our Linux server fleet, patching the Linux fleet and replacing out of date or end of life operating systems and software, liaising with the software department.
• Document work instructions, develop knowledge base, and review and improve support procedures and workflows.
• Promote continuous improvement by taking the initiative to identify issues and provide appropriate solutions and process improvements.
• Deployment and support of Azure and Microsoft desktop environments.

Essential Criteria:

• Firewalls - FortiGate
• Deploy, update (ACLs and firmware), maintain/Monitor
• FortiAnalyser
• FortiGate VPN/Zero trust
• Cisco Switches
• Cisco WAF
• Understanding of DHCP, DNS {Public and private)
• Linux Servers
• CentOS, Rocky, Ubuntu
• Ansible Deploy, Configure, Admin

Network & Server Engineer