Cisco Network Campus Implementation Engineer

Detailed Description From Employer:

Contract: Network Campus Implementation Engineer

Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months

Location: Hybrid - 2 days on site in London each week

Rate: £380 - £400 a day (Deemed Inside IR35 via Umbrella)

Reference: 20481

Immediate contract to work on a large Financial Services client to deliver a large Network Implementation project.

A major refresh and refurbishment programme underway in large office campus in London including a live trading floor and other critical business functions.

We are seeking three experienced Network Engineers to support design, implementation and delivery of campus network changes.

• Demonstrable large enterprise experience (ideally Financial Services) - this is not a support-led role.
• Strong project delivery skills - planning, preparing and driving network workstreams.
• Ability to guide project managers through logical sequencing of network activity.
• Proactive in pushing other teams (cabling, AV, security, end user) for the information needed to deliver to plan.
• Comfortable producing and following templated, repeatable designs at scale.
• Project-based mindset - genuine out-of-the-box implementation experience rather than BAU fixing.
• Someone used to delivering kit, instructing others, and carrying out switch migrations and refreshes, not just troubleshooting.

Technical requirements

• Strong routing and switching background, including experience deploying devices into a Data Centre and working with data centre-grade kit.
• Recent, hands-on experience deploying in a Network Campus environment specifically.
• User Wi-Fi experience, including the practical nuances of working alongside construction teams during deployment.
• Cisco Catalyst Switches with strong Wi-Fi - Wireless Campus experience - this is a key differentiator for this role.
• Able to build to the standard expected in live operations, with security considered from the outset rather than bolted on.

Specifically:

• Cisco Catalyst switching - 6500, 4500 and 9410 platforms.
• Cisco wireless access points across multiple generations - 3800 series through to 9130 series.
• Cisco wireless controllers - 5520, 5508 and 9800 series.
• Cisco Catalyst Centre and Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
• Heavy use of BGP and Layer 3 routing domains in a campus context.

Desirable:

• General awareness of Firewalls in a campus context (deep Firewall engineering is not required).
• Basic multicast configuration - sufficient for use cases such as office screens/digital signage.
• Voice VLAN configuration to switchport level (no end-to-end voice engineering required)
• Load balancing (eg F5) although not a priority for this role.

Environment & Ways of Working

Regulated Environment

• Engineers must understand the operating norms of a highly regulated environment, in particular strict change control and the consequences of unauthorised actions on production. Banking experience is preferred but other regulatory/controlled environments are acceptable.

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