Senior Network Engineer
FNZ
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
Job Title
Senior Network Engineer
Location
Johannesburg
Reports to
Head of Cloud Infrastructure Management
Role Description
This role is technical in nature and is responsible for providing high quality and timely network management support to ensure the availability, stability and performance of the datacentres, cloud platforms and corporate systems.
This position is part of the CIO department and reports to the regional Head of Cloud Infrastructure Management
Specific Role Responsibilities
Design: Ensure that network environments are designed to best practice standards for resilience and availability to ensure the highest SLAs are maintained.
Availability: Ensure that uptime SLAs are met every month for networks that you are responsible for, by managing and resolving issue logs; performing scheduled maintenance to minimise disruption.
Performance: Ensure that performance SLAs are met every month for networks that you are responsible for by monitoring network performance, capacity and growth; suggesting and implementing performance improvements.
Information Security: Ensure that the network environments are internally and externally secure by following existing policies and procedures and documenting for audit purposes as required; implementing security controls and remediations; completing risk assessments and build guides for new and existing systems.
Business Continuity: Ensure that network environments are secure and backed up by ensuring that regular backups are made and are tested. Participate in yearly BCP & DR tests. Ensure that network management is in line with company requirements and departmental policy for resilience and availability. DocumentDocument and keep solution design, business continuity plan and standard operating processs documents up-to-date.
Training: Develop professional and technical knowledge and skills. Provide technical advice and mentoring within the team.
Project Work: Implement new projects to meet project timelines. Work in a matrix structure with multi-national teams.
Budget: Recommend changes that could reduce costs in your areas of responsibility.
Experience Required
FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.
We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.
We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).
Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.
Senior Network Engineer
Location
Johannesburg
Reports to
Head of Cloud Infrastructure Management
Role Description
This role is technical in nature and is responsible for providing high quality and timely network management support to ensure the availability, stability and performance of the datacentres, cloud platforms and corporate systems.
- Network Management
- Cloud, On-premises, Hybrid
This position is part of the CIO department and reports to the regional Head of Cloud Infrastructure Management
Specific Role Responsibilities
Design: Ensure that network environments are designed to best practice standards for resilience and availability to ensure the highest SLAs are maintained.
Availability: Ensure that uptime SLAs are met every month for networks that you are responsible for, by managing and resolving issue logs; performing scheduled maintenance to minimise disruption.
Performance: Ensure that performance SLAs are met every month for networks that you are responsible for by monitoring network performance, capacity and growth; suggesting and implementing performance improvements.
Information Security: Ensure that the network environments are internally and externally secure by following existing policies and procedures and documenting for audit purposes as required; implementing security controls and remediations; completing risk assessments and build guides for new and existing systems.
Business Continuity: Ensure that network environments are secure and backed up by ensuring that regular backups are made and are tested. Participate in yearly BCP & DR tests. Ensure that network management is in line with company requirements and departmental policy for resilience and availability. DocumentDocument and keep solution design, business continuity plan and standard operating processs documents up-to-date.
Training: Develop professional and technical knowledge and skills. Provide technical advice and mentoring within the team.
Project Work: Implement new projects to meet project timelines. Work in a matrix structure with multi-national teams.
Budget: Recommend changes that could reduce costs in your areas of responsibility.
Experience Required
- Degree qualified or equivalent industry certifications and relevant experience
- CCNP certifications and F5 XC will be advantageous
- 5 years operations experience supporting campus networks, data center LAN and firewalls
- Experience with building and supporting Cloud networking
- Familiarity with network types including Cloud, LAN, WAN, WLAN, SAN, and VoIP networks
- Subnetting and routing protocols
- Network redundancy, Load Balancing, BGP
- Network security best-practices and standards
- Network access control technologies
- IP telephony support and optimization
- Network management tools for logging, monitoring, configuration management, AAA
- Network discovery and documentation
- Network performance optimization
- Network device software patching and upgrades
- Virtual private networks
- Network hardening controls
- Networking on hypervisors such as VMware
- Transport layer encryption protocols
- Cisco
- F5
- Checkpoint
- Fortinet
- Solarwinds
- Vmware
- Microsoft
- Linux
- Azure
- AWS
- Keen interest in and knowledge of latest technologies.
- Successfully implemented projects.
- Good team player with the ability to work independently and able to take initiative and drive change.
- Ability to function effectively in a matrix structure.
- Excellent communication skills, confident in dealing with internal teams and external clients and 3rd parties.
- Demonstratable problem-solving capabilities.
- Able to work in a rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure, high-performance environment
FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.
We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.
We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).
Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.
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