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Role: Network Architect
Location: Birmingham (Office, Customer site & home based)
Contract Type: Permanent, full time
Salary Package: £55,000 to £65,000, Company Car/Car allowance, Bonus scheme, plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm, Monday – Friday. We also offer the opportunity to benefit from a Core Hours arrangement (role-specific), providing flexibility around your personal needs
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role purpose:
Demand for SCC’s Professional services continues to grow both from existing and new customers. This has created an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Network Architect to join our talented hybrid team, based in Birmingham, London or Manchester.
You will be required to complete Security Clearance for this role.
Key responsibilities:
- Creating High Level and Low Level Designs
- Performing Network (WAN, LAN, WLAN and Firewall) configuration, deployment, troubleshooting to deliver against your network designs
- Writing and maintaining technical documentation to professional standards
- Contribution to the continuous improvement programmes of all technology platforms and processes within the Professional Services area
- Liaison with third party vendors (such as Cisco, Aruba or Fortinet) and escalation when necessary
- Contributing to delivering team performance
Skills and experience:
- Good networking skills with current Juniper Specialist level certificates
- Great knowledge of Cisco portfolio including cisco switching & routing, Meraki SD-WAN & Meraki design & Deployment
- Demonstrates excellent troubleshooting skills,
- Good background with core network technologies in large-scale deployments
- Experience of working with enterprise level clients
- Demonstrating excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex, technical, multi-site and multi-disciplinary problems and incidents
- Meticulous approach, effective written and oral communicator
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines