NETWORK ENGINEER (ADVANCED ENGLISH)

We are looking for candidates to work in collaboration with the UK Network Team.
The Network Team are at the core of the Bank’s technology and play a critical role in the successful delivery of products and services to our customers.
We are a highly motivated, skilled, and dedicated group of individuals who work together to deliver and support market-leading technology solutions
These candidates will be joining an IT Network team located in Lisbon, Malaga, Madrid or Cantabria that works together with Santander UK.
We are expecting team players who want to grow together not only technically but also knowing the business
You can be dedicated or you may be asked to float between these two workstreams:
Replace and upgrade Network Hardware across critical Layer 3 devices within our R4 Network
- 28 x L3 Devices to replace and upgrade
- All supporting Nexus 7k, 9k
Support Firewall Obsolescence Teams who are migrating and upgrading Physical Infrastructure and services to new target Infra
- Multiple Juniper/Checkpoint Migrations to new Hardware (Firewall migrations completed by a separate Team)
- Interface/VLAN provisioning
- Cutover support
- F5 experience as new services will be required to support migrations
- Excellent attention to detail in creating technical runbooks
For both of them, take in consideration that:
- Monday – Friday 9-5
- Additional hours required to support changes
Tasks
- Managing multiple integrated network topologies.
- Delivering both traditional and cloud native network architecture & solutions.
- Reporting on critical network compliance and availability.
- Ensuring processes and procedures are followed.
- Analysing data through troubleshooting and capacity planning
Requirements
Mandatory skills
- 3 years of experience
- CCNP or above in Routing & Switching. (OSPF, BGP, STP)
- Advanced experience support Nexus NXOS 7k, 9k Switches
- Proven experience troubleshooting F5 Big IP, Big IQ, LTM, GTM config, upgrades, v13 and above.
- Logical network diagnostic approach to faults and problems.
- Confident troubleshooting knowledge using TCP Dumps, PCAP files.
- Working knowledge of security network technologies including firewall, proxy, IPS, WAF, VPN- MS office documentation and organisational skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Nice to have skills
- Understanding of Checkpoint + NSX Distributed Firewalls.
- Experience with Nokia QIP or Infoblox IPAM.
- Experience with IBM Netcool Monitoring & Compliance tooling.
- Dynatrace diagnostics
- Some Spanish Knowledge
Benefits
What we offer:
Stability is very important to us. That's why we offer permanent contracts.
- We value employee training and development and will support your training needs. We will grow alongside you.
- We adapt to your needs for change as much as possible.
- We have a package of social benefits that make your daily life easier, which you can choose from according to your needs.
- We give you the possibility to receive free English classes with our native English teacher.
- The Civir team will provide full support to employees both during their onboarding process and in their daily activities.
- We provide customized support to each employee
At CIVIR we value diversity and facilitate the integration of people with disabilities by prioritizing their candidacy. Don't hesitate to apply to our job openings.
A large enterprise consisting of traditional and software defined WAN, Campus and Data Centre network infrastructure across Private and Public domains.
A hybrid of network technology operating systems supporting high throughput workloads across the organisation and to our customers 24/7 365.
As part of the role, you may be asked to participate in the 24/7 Technical On Call Rota as well as working out of hours to support changes.