Senior Network Engineer Sandton

Our high growth client within IT is looking for a Senior Network Engineer (Network Operations Engineer) The Network Operation Centre (NOC) is responsible for ensuring the maximum possible service availability and performance for our customer facing ISP services and internal network. Sitting within the NOC, the network team are responsible for managing and maintaining the network providing these services. We are looking to recruit a Network Operations Engineer. While you will have some commercial experience working as a NOC Engineer, it's more important that you have the aptitude and demonstrable skills needed to fulfil this role whilst experienced members of the team will help you develop your skills and confidence. We interact frequently with Customer Technical Support and Sales teams so it's important that we can communicate ideas and information to people from a non-technical background. You need to have a good all-round understanding of networks design and engineering including systems integration. Importantly, Network Operations Engineers must develop a solid understanding of our products and processes, they must be keen to learn, able to use their experience and initiative to tackle a broad range of problems and contribute to the growing success of the company. Once you've settled into the role, you will be asked to join our call-out rota providing 24x7 support for our ISP services as well as covering both planned and unplanned out of hours work as required.     *Key Responsibilities* Ensure stable and reliable ISP network services (e.g., access products, service networks and core networks) via day-to-day network performance monitoring. Network troubleshooting and fault analysis; hardware troubleshooting and replacement/repair. Trouble ticket generation and response; carrier interface and escalations. Deployment and maintenance of network monitoring, analysis and reporting tools. Application of configuration changes via our processes. Installation of network hardware and software. Participate in a 24x7 call-out rota. *Candidate Profile* Experience of working on network equipment in an ISP environment, a large NOC or other such company associated with networking. Experience with Mikrotik CCR and Cisco are very relevant. CCNP certified or equivalent level of knowledge with relevant 3–5-year experience. Good understanding of the following technologies: IP Protocols (ICMP, UDP, TCP); IP filtering and firewalling; Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, ISIS); Quality of Service; Ethernet (STP, RSTP, .1q VLANs, QinQ). Good working knowledge of BRAS / LNS / L2TP / PPPoE. Basic understanding of AAA platforms such as Radius and/or TACACS. Familiar working in a data centre environment. Knowledge fibre optics and WDM systems and cabling structures. Basic Linux/UNIX skills ideal. Able to analyse problems and conduct effective fault diagnosis and system recovery. Clear communicator (written and verbal). Capable of pr