Senior Network Engineer (Cisco/Aruba)

Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; Oxford Road campus

Salary: £48,337–£59,390 per annum depending on experience

Company

The hirify.global is a global university providing education, research, innovation, and campus services across a large and complex estate.

What you will do

• Design, operate, troubleshoot, and support enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, data centre, and DDI infrastructure.
• Contribute to the major refresh of campus LAN, data centre, and DDI infrastructure.
• Develop network policy and an agile, automated, identity-driven network service.
• Provide subject matter expertise across HPE, Cisco, and Arista technologies, ensuring designs and deployments are agreed with the network architect and follow strategic principles.
• Provide ongoing level 3 support for a large single-campus software-defined network rollout.
• Work with IT Services teams, customers, and third-party suppliers to define, deliver, and operate network solutions.

Requirements

• Experience designing, delivering, and operating enterprise-class networking and backend services.
• LAN and wireless design, operation, and troubleshooting experience with Cisco or Aruba technology; professional-level Cisco or Aruba certifications are preferred.
• Experience working in a service support function, resolving customer issues, and answering customer questions.
• Experience working with third-party suppliers to define, design, deliver, and operate successful solutions.
• Strong LAN and wireless networking experience, including network protocols, BGP, OSPF, and switching.
• Strong experience with data centre network technologies and their application.
• Good experience with network security tooling, firewalls, IPS, and remote access solutions to support Cyber Security operations.
• Ability to assess network issues, identify likely root causes, resolve technical issues, communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, and work to tight timescales without sacrificing quality.

Nice to have

• Experience with HPE and Arista networking and F5 load balancers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within an expanding and evolving IT Services network team serving staff, students, and researchers.
• Inclusive environment that values diversity, enquiry, challenge, learning, community, and open debate.
• Employer-contribution pension.
• 29 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and Christmas closure.
• Ride-to-work and electric vehicle car schemes.
• Flexible and hybrid working information is provided by the university.

Hiring process

• Applications close at midnight on the stated closing date.
• Applications should address the person specification and reference the specific role requirements.
• Shortlisting and interviews are handled as part of the recruitment process.