Network Engineer
| Location | CPT - CBD, South Africa |
| Date Posted | March 10, 2021 |
| Category |
Engineering
|
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Currency | ZAR |
Description
Our retail client based in Cape Town is seeking to employ a technically proficient IT Network Engineer.
Duties & Responsibilities
Your daily tasks include, but not limited to:
- Hands on WAN and LAN support.
- Provide management of all network and wireless technologies.
- Provide technical input around network / wireless faults and be able to liaise with external vendors.
- Make use of monitoring tools to pre-empt possible outages.
- Take initiative troubleshooting any IT Infrastructure issues.
- Project manage small network and datacentre related initiatives.
- Perform daily network and system checks.
- Creating accurate management reporting information.
- Forecasting the growth of network infrastructure requirements.
- Service availability using monitoring and alerting tools.
- Input on high availability strategy.
- Scalability and capacity planning.
- Suggest improvements in areas to optimise current infrastructure implementations.
- Document designs, specifications and implementations.
To be considered, you MUST have:
Technical proficiency to understand a complex data network environment.
A MINIMUM of 4 years’ experience at Network Engineer level.
Able to provide team managers backup and support.
Have a working knowledge of:
- Cisco Datacentre core (Nexus) switching and routing.
- Good Cisco Catalyst, Aruba wireless and switching.
- Good network security skills.
- Voice over IP (VoIP).
- Routing protocol knowledge and diagnostic of – OSPF, BGP, EIGRP
- Excellent OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP)
- Excellent IP addressing and subnetting.
- Sound VLAN knowledge and configuration.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills