Johannesburg: Network Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join our team in Johannesburg. As a key member of our IT department, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of our network infrastructure, providing top-notch support to our clients, and driving business growth through innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist IT departments in resolving issues with their network equipment (routers, firewalls, comprehension boxes, etc.)
• Provide quality support, particularly by explaining to your contacts the origin of their problem and the appropriate resolution practices
• Enhance our knowledge base by updating the documentation of operating procedures and instructions
• Ensure firmware upgrades for network equipment
• Independently manage site infrastructure transformation projects in compliance with client standards and best practices in terms of network architecture
• Perform network compliance audits and ensure the security and high availability of the client’s infrastructure are maintained
• Adhere to client-defined SLAs and monitor them with your manager
• Network and Firewall administration and maintenance
• Design of the IT network infrastructure (WAN, MAN, LAN) of the entities, across the entire scope: Technically translates the functional needs of the group. Builds and maintains the standards and principles of architecture.
• Based on the strategies and needs of the business departments Ensure capacity planning for IT Infrastructure
• Manage IT Hardware resources (see inventory and capacity planning in deliverables here after)
• Guarantee the availability and quality of data by maintaining and improving performance (“tuning”) and functionalities (by improving their automation, optimizing processing and queries, settings, etc.)
• Management of scalabilities (volume monitoring, etc.) on the data access aspect
• Administer user access permissions and data security issues with the security engineer
• Manage version migrations
• Follow up on monitoring tools and study all incidents that have occurred to understand their severity and origins
• Participation in the architecture projects of new projects, implementation: Participates in the evaluation of projects.
• For all new projects or new technologies, participates and monitors the evaluation of the impact of the change
• Monitoring of network infrastructure deployments, carried out by internal and external teams

Requirements

• Relevant qualification in Information Technology or Computer Science
• Fortinet NSE 6 CCNP / ARUBA ACP Azure Networking
• Advantage Management of operations on environment with clustering, replication, load balancer
• ITIL Practitioner (V3) / ITIL Specialist (V4)
• ISO 27000, other IT security Training
• Prince2, PMP or equivalence

Qualifications

• Relevant qualification in Information Technology or Computer Science
• Fortinet NSE 6 CCNP / ARUBA ACP Azure Networking

Salary & Benefits

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