We are currently seeking a Network Engineer, to join our Network Practice; within one of our Financial Services clients. This is a hybrid position but you will be required to attend the office up to 4 days a week, based in the Central London.

Opticore IT is a rapidly expanding specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within challenging and exciting environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.

As a Network Operations Engineer, you will be involved in day-to-day support, predictive analysis and troubleshooting the network infrastructure. The opportunity also requires close interaction with Infrastructure, Datacentre and other Operations teams, giving broad exposure to a variety of enterprise products and technologies.

What you'll be doing:

• Monitoring the health of the network infrastructure, using polling and monitoring and analysis tools
• Reacting to alerts and providing resolutions to major incidents
• Investigating hardware and software problems and working with manufacturer support teams to resolve issues
• Reporting and troubleshooting network connectivity to third parties, and WAN connectivity outages and issues with our partners
• Completing support tickets, and network audits, to ensure compliance with standards

What you'll bring:

• Holding a CCNP
• Proficient in creating and running network automation tools, with experience using Python preferable
• Familiar with Ansible/AWX for network automation
• Skilled in mentoring other team members, and committed to knowledge sharing across the team for skills development and collaboration
• Knowledgeable around complex switching and routing concepts
• Highly organised, self-motivated and excellent at problem solving
• Passionate and enthusiastic about ensuring the team continues to meet the high standards of performance expected of it
• Experience working in Agile environment

What you’ll gain:

Here at OpticoreIT we believe in investing in our team as we understand that we are only as great as our engineers, so learning and development is a big deal for us. Whether you’re going for a CCNP, CCIE, Hashicorp, Python, Cloud Technology or anything in between OpticoreIT has your back with all our training, labs, courses, and shared knowledge and the most important part it’s all free! On top of that, we also give you:

• Competitive Salary & discretionary bonus
• 23 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private healthcare & dental
• Pension
• EV car, workplace nursery, tech, and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes
• Team & Company Social events
• EMI share scheme