Bristol computing / IT
Director of Network Engineering and Operations
A World Leader in Media and Communications are looking to recruit a Director of Network Engineering and Operations to be Responsible for global network engineering and operations across the Services organisation, including Internet facing Wide Area Networks and Data Centre Local Area Networks. Ensure the operations and scalability of the network to respond to the consumer and service volumes.
You will be required to Manage global teams responsible for the design, implementation and support of all Network Engineering components across Services. Defining, maintaining and operating network standard architecture that scales to billions of users, ensuring high availability and scalability 24x7x365. Utilizing technologies from Cisco, F5 and other vendors as standards across global consumer facing data centres. Additionally responsible for managing the WAN, transit and peering arrangements and Content Delivery Network (CDN) Operations. Overall responsibility for the health of the network, security, new deployments and ensuring highly available connectivity throughout global network infrastructure.
10+ years in a Network Service Provider environment highly desired, 10+ years background operating in a Cisco/F5 infrastructure, Expertise and experience with Network Equipment and protocols incl BGP, IPSEC, EIGRP, Multicast, QOS, VLANS, Spanning Tree, SNMP, PCI compliance and Security background preferred. Very good overall understanding of the various needed Service Management (ITILv) processes especially in the Service Operations area, SLAs and management tools/practices. Related Service Delivery competencies required include e.g.: Networking Hardware (Routers, Switches, Load balancers), Network infrastructure Protocols/Services: e.g. TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, SMTP, SSH, Data Centre Design/Management (Layout, Power, Cooling, Cabling)
This is an excellent opportunity to work for a growing company at the cutting-edge of technology so please apply now for more information and a detailed job specification.
Start Date: 04-01-2010
Duration: n/a
Reference: MM/DIRECTORNETWORKS
Industry Sector: IT and Telecoms - OTHER IT & TELECOMMS
Salary: £80000 to £120000 per annum Benefits: Car Allowance + 25% Bonusad_resource=666251287370c3256382b9b8ea38a927
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