Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Durban Verfied

Salary Negotiable Durban, Kwazulu-Natal Durban, Kwazulu-Natal more than 14 days ago 22-06-2021 10:18:52 AM
17-08-2021 10:18:52 AM
Senior Infrastructure Engineer with strong Networking skills required in Durban. 5 years+ of hands-on network engineering experience in a business focused environment. 3 years+ experience working directly with business customers. 1 years+ experience in providing documented infrastructure designs aligned to business requirements. Proven understanding of networking protocols and configurations (e.g. BGP, OSPF, MPLS, QoS); monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools; of security features such as proxy, WAF, IPSEC / SSL VPN, IDS, and UTM services.

Responsibilities:
• Maintain the reliability and security of the company’s global IT infrastructure, including voice, network, security, and hosting elements.
• Assure ongoing IT infrastructure performance by building appropriate technical designs and configurations and providing escalation support for the infrastructure.
• Provide technical advice, recommendations, and support to assist sales teams in building proposals and designs for customer projects.
• Support for the network and IT infrastructure
• Customer Engagement
• Network Engineering
• Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure success of network changes.
• Participate in the installation, configuration, maintenance and ongoing management of network, security, hosting and voice equipment as required.
• Recommend, document and plan core infrastructure maintenance and system upgrades, as required.
• Recommend, document and plan core infrastructure design changes, as required.
• Proactively provide constructive critical analysis and recommendations for network and infrastructure development
• Ensure security of the technical infrastructure.
• Use appropriate configurations, tools and follow relevant procedures to assure the security of the technical infrastructure
• On-going Reporting and Monitoring
Key Requirements:
• 5 years+ of hands-on network engineering experience in a business focussed environment.
• 3 years+ experience working directly with business customers.
• 1 years+ experience in providing documented infrastructure designs aligned to business requirements.
• Proven understanding of networking protocols and configurations (e.g. BGP, OSPF, MPLS, QoS)
• Proven understanding of monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools
• Proven understanding of security features such as proxy, WAF, IPSEC / SSL VPN, IDS, and UTM services
• Experience with Fortigate firewall configurations and deployments an advantage
• Experience with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN and LAN deployments an advantage
• Knowledge and experience of physical network infrastructure
• Experience with ISO 27002 and PCI an advantage
• Experience with Sonus Voice deployments an advantage
• Relevant network certifications an advantage
• Experience working with Linux / Unix an advantage
• Strong understanding and experience working with eBGP, transit and IX peering configurations an advantage.
• Knowledge / experience of SIP, G.711, and G.729 voice coding schemes, Call Admission Control an advantage