IT Senior Network Engineer
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- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Architecture: Develop and execute long-term network roadmaps aligned with business goals, including digital transformation and cloud migration
- Infrastructure Management: Oversee the lifecycle of LAN, WAN, wireless, and data centre infrastructures
- Security & Compliance: Implement zero-trust security frameworks, manage firewalls/VPNs, and ensure adherence to standards like NIST or ISO 27001
- Team & Vendor Management: Manage 3rd party relationships with partners and vendors
- Disaster Recovery: Design and test comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plans ensuring documentation is up to date
- Performance Monitoring: Utilize monitoring tools for proactive anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and capacity planning.
- Operations Management:
- Ensure all network systems are functioning & communicating properly. Systems include, servers, firewalls, routers, network switches, VPN devices and other related network systems
- Daily network administration duties
- Support, configure, maintain the corporate work
- Configure & support 3rd party applications and network connections
- Network Governance: Ensure network security standards (CIS), policies & regulation are properly implemented within the network environment
- Network Monitoring: Monitor network performance (availability, utilization, throughput and latency)
- Must have 10+ years' experience in relevant role
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- High value placed on advanced credentials such as CCIE, CCNP, or cloud-specific certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect).
- Strong analytical problem-solving, stakeholder communication, and the ability to influence executive-level decisions.
- Possess an advanced understanding of networking protocols & procedures
- The candidate must demonstrate:
- A good aptitude for relevant technologies
- Proven experience in a network administration & engineering role
- Exceptional critical thinking & problem-solving ability
- Knowledge of best practices regarding management, control & monitoring of network infrastructure
- Ability to work independently under minimal supervision
- Knowledge of computing infrastructures
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Good interpersonal & communication skills to provide support in a professional manner
- Ability to work on own initiative & demonstrate proactive ownership of tasks and issues with a defined SLA
- Self-motivated with good judgement, organisational and time management skills
- An ability to follow established processes & procedures and define new ones when appropriate
- Good attention to detail
- Good team working capability
- Dedicated and flexible work attitude