Network Engineer (Cisco)

at Acuity Consultants
Location Cape Town, South Africa
Date Posted September 5, 2020
Category Engineering
IT / Information Technology
Job Type Full-time
Currency ZAR

Description

Excellent opportunity for a Cisco Network Engineer to gain experience supporting a highly complex data network environment for one of SA’s Leading Retailers. You will join a highly data-driven business and will provide Cisco Datacenter support across the business. You will be responsible for managing & optimizing the IT infrastructure, troubleshooting any issues, and providing insights on future network strategies and technologies.

This Network Engineer position is Cape Town based and is paying a highly competitive salary.

THE COMPANY:
This long-established, highly successful OMNI-CHANNEL RETAILER has around 800 stores across South Africa and offers an excellent working culture. They are a highly DATA-DRIVEN BUSINESS who focuses on using technology to drive business operations.

THE ROLE:
In this position, you will be responsible for supporting the entire network environment (WAN & LAN Support), fault management, pre-empting outages using monitoring tools, troubleshooting infrastructure issues, forecasting growth of infrastructure requirements, producing a high availability strategy and ultimately improving and optimising the current IT infrastructure.

Technical skills you will need, to excel:
• 8+ years experience working as a Network Engineer in a complex data network environment
• Cisco Datacentre core (Nexus) switching and routing
• Cisco Catalyst, Aruba wireless and switching
• Network Security
• Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• VoIP
• Routing protocol knowledge and setup – OSPF, BGP, EIGRP
• OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP)
• IP addressing and subnetting
• VLAN knowledge and configuration
• Cloud network integration

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