Wireless Network Engineer at WWT EMEA UK LIMITED, City of London, £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)