Network & Cloud Engineer
Job Profile
We are looking for a network and cloud engineer to implement, monitor, and maintain a hybrid cloud solution, including major services related to compute, storage, network, and security.
You’ll be part of the IT team that’s responsible for to set up and deploy a secure hybrid cloud solution to ensure acceptable performance, availability and secure access to on prem, custom-developed applications (PAAS), application running as IAAS, SAAS and integration with 3rd party solutions APIs.
The administrator oversees and manages the secure hybrid cloud infrastructure services and the multiple cloud servers, routings, and security configurations.
Qualifications and experience
- CCNA or similar – Routing and Switching is mandatory
- 4+ Experience in Network configuration and routing of on prem networks and virtual networks
- Strong technical knowledge of implementation and maintaining Hybrid cloud solutions, routing, firewalling and virtual machines for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions.
- Proven experience with installation and maintenance of the internal and external networking
- Proven experience with Azure Cloud environment implementations
- A good understanding of designing and configuring hybrid cloud solutions and integration into 3rd party solutions and API’s
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Cloud Platform and Infrastructure or similar
- Any Information security certification will be beneficial and assists.
Responsibilities / Skills
- Deploying and configuring virtual networks, orchestrating routing Paths and firewalls.
- Managing Public and Private IP addresses for on prem resources and selected other Azure resources
- Implementing and managing fail-over recovery for network and other components in the Hybrid cloud environment
- Deploying VMs into virtual networks.
- Monitors and analyses performance of the on prem and cloud resources
- Ability to configure, monitor and maintain Windows servers within a Microsoft Azure cloud environment and on prem
- Maintain cloud and VM servers, including patching, security configurations and troubleshooting.
- Assist in configuring and maintaining system availability and security strategies, process, and procedures
- Accountable for the support, performance, security and availability of the Enterprise Network
- Recommend alternatives, select and acquire additional network and security solutions or enhancements to existing network solutions to improve overall enterprise networks high availability and security
- Schedule and perform upgrades and maintenance.
- Oversee the deployment, integration, and initial configuration of all new security solutions and of any enhancements to existing security solutions in accordance with standard best operating procedures generically and the enterprise’s security documents specifically.
Work with IT management to compare and evaluate solutions and to implement and integrate systems, as appropriate
- Good troubleshooting skills
- Ability to think analytically and solve problems
Technology exposure
- Cisco switching and routing
- Hp Aruba Switching and routing
- Powershell
- Azure networking and communication services
- Azure administration and security centres
- Docker and Kubernetes
- VMWare
- Veeam
- Windows Server
- Linux
- SNMP, Syslog, netflow and other monitoring technologies
Please note: only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Desired Skills:
- Please refer to list above