Candidates should ideally have min 2 years experience in an ISP, carrier, managed services provider or system integrator environment with direct experience of network router and switch deployment and support.
Experience in dealing with customers on a technical level for delivery of premium business services would be a significant advantage.
- Practical and hands-on understanding of Cisco Equipment with particular emphasis on management and provisioning of Ethernet and DSL services.
- Good understanding of TCP/IP and associated protocols is a must.
- Knowledge of routing protocols ? including BGP and ISIS
- At least 2+ years of hands on experience with Cisco routers, switches and firewalls.
- CCNA or CCNP qualified (desirable but not essential depending on experience)
- Understanding of QoS, Ethernet, VLAN?s and Voice (SIP).
- Understanding of Radius, Syslog, DNS and PPPoE.
- Ability to work on own initiative and hit the ground running.
- Ability to liaise with customers and to capture relevant information for more complex technical installations.
- Experience in using Network management tools such as HP Openview, Nagios and MRTG an advantage
- Experience with Fibre optic networks (including CWDM and DWDM) and its associated transmission an advantage
- Experience with Linux, Solaris and other UNIX variants a significant advantage.
- Knowledge of security standards and procedures
Competency Profile / Essential Personal Skills Required:
- Must have strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work around issues and be creative as regards problem solving.
- Must have proven project management capabilities
- Experience in progress reporting to management.
- Ability to multitask across multiple projects is a must.
- Strong self-motivation, work ethic with ?can do? attitude
- Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical staff.
- Willingness to travel on occasion.
- Must be dependable & flexible and willing to work independently or as part of a team.
- Good documentation skills.
- Participate on an on-call team roster system for out of hours support
Experience: 2 yearsREQUIREMENTS AND EXPERIENCE:
Candidates should ideally have min 2 years experience in an ISP, carrier, managed services provider or system integrator environment with direct experience of network router and switch deployment and support.
Experience in dealing with customers on a technical level for delivery of premium business services would be a significant advantage.
- Practical and hands-on understanding of Cisco Equipment with particular emphasis on management and provisioning of Ethernet and DSL services.
- Good understanding of TCP/IP and associated protocols is a must.
- Knowledge of routing protocols ? including BGP and ISIS
- At least 2+ years of hands on experience with Cisco routers, switches and firewalls.
- CCNA or CCNP qualified (desirable but not essential depending on experience)
- Understanding of QoS, Ethernet, VLAN?s and Voice (SIP).
- Understanding of Radius, Syslog, DNS and PPPoE.
- Ability to work on own initiative and hit the ground running.
- Ability to liaise with customers and to capture relevant information for more complex technical installations.
- Experience in using Network management tools such as HP Openview, Nagios and MRTG an advantage
- Experience with Fibre optic networks (including CWDM and DWDM) and its associated transmission an advantage
- Experience with Linux, Solaris and other UNIX variants a significant advantage.
- Knowledge of security standards and procedures
Competency Profile / Essential Personal Skills Required:
- Must have strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work around issues and be creative as regards problem solving.
- Must have proven project management capabilities
- Experience in progress reporting to management.
- Ability to multitask across multiple projects is a must.
- Strong self-motivation, work ethic with ?can do? attitude
- Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical staff.
- Willingness to travel on occasion.
- Must be dependable & flexible and willing to work independently or as part of a team.
- Good documentation skills.
- Participate on an on-call team roster system for out of hours support
Experience: 2 years
Type: Permanent
Payment: Attractive Salary
Category: IT - Network
