Job Description

Our client in the Financial Services industry is currently looking for a Senior Network Design Engineer, in Sandton, Johannesburg.Responsibilities:

• Provide 2nd level escalation (3rd being the Vendor) support for BAU teams ensuring that the networks and client connectivity platforms meet or exceed availability.
• Ensure quality, performance and resiliency requirements in SLAs agreed with business stakeholders.
• Interpret the technology infrastructure architecture roadmap and from it conceptualize, innovate, design and implement network and client connectivity solutions.
• Design and innovate Network and Client Connectivity infrastructure solutions that maximize performance, reliability and resiliency allowing the organisation to offer its clients competitive and reliable services.
• Write and document functional requirements/specifications documents and standard operating procedures for all new solution designs.
• Manage own delivery against department delivery plans and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action as required.
• Contribute to the infrastructural architectural strategy, including technology standardisation, modernisation and roadmaps.
• Lead infrastructure projects to design and implement solutions in accordance with defined organisation processes and industry best practices.
• Design and implement short/long term strategic plans to ensure Networks and Client Connectivity capacity meets existing and future requirements.
• Design and implementation of Networks and Client Connectivity platforms.
• Conducting root cause analysis for production issues.
• Providing input into change management and implementation plans, incident reports and issue resolution progress reports.
• Identifying areas of continuous improvement in the Networks and Client Connectivity platforms technology stack.
• Providing budgetary input for Networks and Client Connectivity platforms solution designs.
• Troubleshooting connectivity issues across all infrastructure elements.
• Perform Networks and Client Connectivity platform environments audits.

• BSc Computer Science or related.
• CCNA, CCNP, CCDP Qualification or similar.
• Knowledge of infrastructure software services and applications (e.g., Networking, Security, DNS, TCP IP, Active Directory, Linux)
• 10+ years IT work experience.
• 6+ years Network Administration.
• 5+ years Cisco Technologies experience.
• Strong experience with Microsoft, Linux and Open Source Operating systems' network technology stacks.
• Experience with Financial industry connectivity requirements.
• Solid experience with network protocols (OSPF, BGP) and in-depth firewall, wireless, routing and switching and network management skills.

• Up to R1.5 mil per annum.

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