Specialist Network Engineer

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together...one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Requirements

• Strong understanding and practical experience in routing, subnetting and OSI model.
• Strong understanding and practical experience in of network hardware and network infrastructure
• Strong understanding of desktop support and specifically supporting all devices that utilize network infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of VPN connectivity and toolsets such as but not limited to Zscaler and Cisco VPN.
• Network routing – demonstrable Cisco CCNP equivalent experience in multi-area OSPF and BGP, route filtering and mutual redistribution of routing protocols, both IGP and BGP, use of VRF’s for traffic separation, route tagging, prefix-maps, etc.
• Network switching and wireless - demonstrable Cisco CCNP equivalent experience in VLAN’s, VxLAN, Spanning-Tree (RSTP, MST, etc.), 802.1Q trunk links, LACP, MLAG, VPC, P2P Ethernet links, QinQ, Wireless LAN, etc.
• Network monitoring and alerting - demonstrable experience in the use of SolarWinds, Arista CVP, Cisco DNA, Wireshark, NetScout, OpsGenie or equivalent tools is compulsory.
• Experience in managing Metro-E circuits for national and international campus connectivity.
• Experience in the use of incident and problem management ticketing systems (e.g., ServiceNow).
• Ability to analyze, problem solve and think critically and pays attention to details.
• Strong team player, highly collaborative, effectively transfer knowledge.
• Calm and resilient in a high-pressure environment and manage stress effectively.
• Ability to multi-task, work on different streams and problems simultaneously.
• Keep communication channels open while troubleshooting
• Adaptable, curious with a high learning agility and high in self-motivation.
• Strong and effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, mindful and self-aware with self-management being key.

Benefits

• Hybrid working model
• Ability to travel regionally, nationally, and internationally
• Flexible hours due to 24-hour support model.
• Reliable and insured car required for daily travel