Job Title:             Senior Network Engineer

Location:             Cardiff (Hybrid) with regular travel

Salary:                 Up to £60,000 + car allowance

Contract type:    Permanent

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Network Engineer to join our successful team.

Our team of Network engineers form a key part of our Technical team carrying out cutting edge networking implementations for our large and growing customer base.

Please note this is a client facing role covering UK Clients, which will require you to travel and deploy our latest network projects. Although this role can be based anywhere in the UK, you must be able to visit the Cardiff office to spend time with the team.

A full UK Driving license is essential and an enhanced DBS check is required.

Requirements

• Dealing with technical escalations from the Network and assigned project resources within the team, providing advice and guidance. 
• Technically leading Network and other assigned projects from start to completion. 
• Mentoring team members and providing knowledge transfer and thorough documentation. 
• Working closely with the project managers until project completion. 
• Successful technical delivery of any projects that you are assigned to. 
• Work closely with our sales executives and pre-sales team on technical design validation. 
• Ensuring the accuracy of the designs and solutions that you have input into. 
• Nationwide travel to customer sites at times, working outside of the office for extended periods of time. You will also be required to carry out work out of normal working hours as agreed with your line manager and in line with the company’s overtime policy. 
• Provide ad hoc support to our Network Operating Centre (NOC), assisting customers with questions and queries about their supported networks on an escalation basis.

Essential: 

• Experience of working in an IT networking project/support role within a professional or corporate environment.  
• Experience of deploying large network projects, including enterprise campus networks and data centre projects
• Strong experience with stakeholder engagement
• Experience of delivering customer workshops and training sessions
• Full UK driving license and access to own car to be insured for business use. 
• Project implementations/project lifecycle experience is essential. 
• MSP / Reseller experience as project engineer/consultant is essential. 
• Experience of delivering excellent customer service. 
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment. 
• Experience with at least one of the following vendors:  

o   HPE Aruba – Wired/Wireless/SD-WAN 

o   Dell - Wired 

o   Cisco – Wired/Wireless 

o   Extreme – Wired/Wireless/SD-WAN 

• Experience utilising fibre cabling inc. OM1/OM2/OM3/OM4/OM5/OS1/OS2 and relevant optics. 
• Experience and understanding of Dual Stack (IPv4/IPv6) environments. 
• CCNP/ACSP/ACMP/ACP qualifications or equivalent demonstrable experience. 
• Switching & Routing 
• Experience of IP subnetting/supernetting and designing schematics for customer environments. 
• Core/Edge network replacement experience. 
• Experience of RF design utilising toolsets such as Ekahau/Airmagnet/Airwave VisualRF/Aruba Central. 
• Routing experience – iBGP/eBGP/BGP-EVPN/VXLAN/OSPFv2/OSPFv3/Underlay/Overlay for Datacentre and Campus Networking. 
• WLAN Infrastructure deployment experience of controller/controllerless based networks and cloud managed networking. 
• Understanding and experience of using DHCP/DNS infrastructure. 
• You will be a client-friendly, confident, eager, and enthusiastic individual, who is keen to develop their career long term. 
• Excellent troubleshooting skills. 
• Able to self-manage time.
• Excellent communication skills with all levels of stakeholders

Desirable: 

• An understanding and appreciation of Windows Server, Virtualisation and Storage technologies.  
• Aruba/Extreme Certifications 
• SonicWALL - Firewall 
• Fortinet – Firewall/SD-WAN 
• Wireless Surveying 
• Experience with AAA & Radius, Windows NPS/ClearPass/Cisco ISE

Benefits

Who are we?

ARO has 25 years’ experience in Collaboration, Connectivity, Cloud and Infrastructure and Cyber Security services both in the UK and Internationally and has a nationwide presence with offices across the UK.

As one of the UK’s leading independent IT and communication experts our mission is to deliver a seamless technology experience to all end users. To make that vision a reality, we need bright, tenacious and inspiring talent to help drive our performance, growth and achieve this mission.

To make us successful we focus on strong communication, a culture based on fun, trust and collaboration. We have created a modern workplace environment, which is full of engaged, energetic, positive and curious people whose productivity, resilience and wellbeing allow them to thrive.

In 2021 we were awarded the People Insight’s Outstanding Workplace Award, which celebrates organisations building positive workplace cultures and acting on employee feedback to spark positive change.

Why Work for ARO?

At ARO we are committed to creating an excellent employee experience. Our employees, culture and additional benefits all make ARO a great place to work. Come join us!

We offer a wide range of benefits and incentives to our employees including:

• ‘Design Your Life’ training and development programme
• Flexible working
• Company Pension Scheme and matching contributions
• Company Perks portal
• Private Medical insurance
• Life assurance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus holiday trading
• Your Birthday off, on us!
• Health Club and Wellbeing Scheme
• ARO Shares after 12 months employment
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Technical Training Academy and E-learning

If even 80% of this matches your experience and attributes, we would be delighted to hear from you.