Network Implementation Engineer at World Wide Technology, London, £Contract Rate

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome.

World Wide Technology (WWT) is looking for an experienced Network Implementation to support a large-scale campus/building network refresh and migration program

The ideal candidate role involves relocating and upgrading network equipment rooms, deploying and configuring core, distribution, switching, and Wi-Fi infrastructure, managing service migrations, and validating end-to-end network functionality

This is a contract Role & Inside IR35

Network Implementation Engineer

Contract Duration: 12 months!

Location: London, UK (Hybrid with 2-3 days onsite per week)

Essential Skills:

• 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
• Strong, Wi-Fi savvy campus wireless experience
• Recent, hands-on experience deploying and refreshing network infrastructure in a live campus environment
• Experience deploying data centre-grade network devices
• Campus edge design experience
• Heavy use of BGP and Layer 3 routing domains in a campus context

Delivery & Project Skills:

• Demonstrable large enterprise experience — this is not a support-led or operational role
• A project-based mindset with a track record of out-of-the-box implementation work, not BAU support or fault-fixing
• Strong project delivery skills — planning, preparing and driving network workstreams end-to-end
• Comfortable delivering and physically installing kit, instructing and directing other engineers or contractors, and carrying out switch migrations and refreshes
• Ability to guide project managers through logical sequencing of network activity
• Proactive in engaging cabling, AV, security, construction and end user teams to deliver to plan
• Comfortable producing and following templated, repeatable designs at scale

Desirable Skills:

• General awareness of firewalls in a campus context (deep firewall engineering 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)

Candidates will be required to go through background checks before commencing contract.

Must be eligible to live and work in the specified work location. Some occasional travel may be required. Only successful candidates will be contacted

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.