Network Engineer - Campus/Wireless at World Wide Technology, London, 12 Months, £400-£450 per day

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology solution provider, working with the world's largest organisations to design, build and deliver complex infrastructure at scale. Our EMEA business spans a London sales office, a European Integration Center in Amsterdam and an operations team at Schiphol, and continues to grow rapidly.

WWT EMEA has a need for a Senior Network Engineer to help with a campus refresh program for enterprise client. This a delivery and project based role where the successful candidate will be responsible for planning, preparing and implementation of end to end solution. Please see a list of requirements below.

Requirements

Reviewing and relocating main equipment rooms across the building

Refreshing floors as they are decommissioned, refurbished and brought back into service

Migrating services to temporary core/distribution and ultimately to the final core/distribution design

Deploying and configuring new network kit as floors and equipment rooms become available, including delivering kit to site, instructing junior engineers/contractors, and migrating and refreshing existing Switches

Refreshing wireless infrastructure across multiple generations of Wi-Fi deployed across the estate, including managing user Wi-Fi through construction and handover phases and coordinating closely with construction teams on the practical nuances this creates

Building network infrastructure to the standard expected in live operations, with security requirements designed in from the outset rather than retrofitted

Validating network functionality jointly with cabling, AV, physical security and end user testing teams

Skills required:

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 - this is a key differentiator for this programme

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

Supplementary - Desirable

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)

World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, colour, 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.