Senior Network Engineer

Position: Senior Network Engineer
Location: South Oxfordshire
On site: 5 days
Salary: £50k - £60k

Company benefits:

• Flexible working
  
• family friendly policies
  
• Health and wellbeing
  
• Saving's schemes
  
• Learning & development
  
• And more
  
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Working with the Senior Network Administrator and IT Security Officer within our clients Scientific Computing group, the post will be responsible for co-development of the design, development, commissioning and operational support of their science facing network infrastructure both for current facility operations and to play a key role in the delivery of network upgrade and transformation projects. As such, the job remit will cover the support, design, development, and operation of networking capabilities to enable effective, dependable, and resilient operation of the clients accelerators, science beamlines, and data centre operations.

• Co-design and development of Diamond's Science Network infrastructure to support high performance detectors, storage systems, and cluster services.
  
• Provide network operations support and a source of technical expertise within the Scientific Computing team on an ad hoc and projects basis.
  
• Installation and configuration of network infrastructure utilising hardware from multiple vendors.
  
• Undertake root cause analysis, identification, and resolution of network infrastructure issues in a timely manner, working with other members of the Scientific Computing team, and other teams within the organisation.
  
• Software Patching of network equipment to standard versions of software.
  
• Interfacing with internal teams and Scientists, at all stages of the development life cycle to, for example, develop requirements for projects and tenders, track project progress, and verify operation of Diamond's science facing and accelerator network infrastructure.
  
• Report on progress in all areas on a periodic basis to the Operations Manager and Head of Scientific Computing.
  
• Project planning, coordination, and implementation of projects relating to networks.
  
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of network technologies and developments to ably support and develop the facility's science, beamline, and accelerator projects.
  
• Document and communicate Network developments within Diamond and to other projects.
  
• Network monitoring, and development of reporting metrics and dashboards to measure network performance.
  
• Line manages junior network administrators as required.
  
• Maintain and update DLS firewall appliances.
  
  Skills:
  
• Demonstrable experience of administering modern network infrastructure through previous roles;
  
• Experience in configuring and troubleshooting common network protocols such as PXE, DHCP, DNS, CIFS and NFS;
  
• Experience of computer hardware with high bandwidth network requirements
  
• Experience of network stack tuning on Windows and/or Linux
  
• Experience of Linux command line and simple scripting;
  
• Experience of operating and configuring firewalls and VPN
  
• Experience in the development of existing and new network infrastructure capabilities, such as: design and guiding delivery of fibre installs, and the selection, configuration and deployment of routers and switches.
  
• Experience of Low Latency Network Interconnects such as InfiniBand (IB) or OmniPath (OPA)
  Degree level qualification in computing or science subject, or equivalent experience;
  Specific network accreditation, e.g. CCNA CCNP WCNA
  
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