Network Technician (Valencia, Spain)

Category: Consultant

Client: United Nations

Location: Valencia, Spain

Estimated Start Date: ASAP

To apply for this position, please send your resume at office@idealstaffs.com referencing the job title.

Initially, 100% remote work is possible until the COVID-19 situation improves, after that relocation is expected and required.

IdealStaffs Consulting is looking for Network Technician with extensive experience with WAN and Datacenter operations to provide on-going support and maintenance operations for its client, an United Nations international organization.

• On-call required one week per month (rotation is subject to the number of team members)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Administrator – The candidate is responsible for the maintenance, administration of the ICT

• Infrastructure LAN, WAN and Data Center infrastructure. The candidate is responsible for managing and maintaining standard configurations routers, switches firewalls, load balancers, voice gateways monitoring and management tools.

• Deployment Team Member – The candidate is responsible for final testing and deployment of LAN/WAN and Data Center solutions as well as all related technical documentation.

• Operational Support - The candidate is responsible of the WAN and core network routing operations at Tier 2 and handles request fulfilment, incident resolution as well participate in the problem resolution, preventive maintenance related to WAN and core network environment.

• The candidate will also participate in the out-of-hours duty roster and changes, as required.

• Perform other duties, as required.

Qualifications:

• Minimum five years of experience working on IT preferably in large WAN or Datacenter environments.

• Good knowledge of Cisco IOs, NX-OS, Cisco ACI, including the managements of routers and switches. Cisco certifications are desirable.

• Good knowledge of Data Center operations including the management of Core and Distribution layer switches

• Experience with VMware and NSX is desirable.

• Good Knowledge of Wide Area Network, experience on using different routing protocols.

• Good knowledge of network security including firewalls, VPN, intrusion detection/prevention

• devices.

• Good knowledge of network management tools and practices.

• Good knowledge of automation and scripting techniques, preferably Ansible and other languages applied to Cisco environments

• Knowledge of Cloud like Azure and AWS environments is desirable

• Basic knowledge of voice and video over IP including voice transport, termination and related Quality of Services.

• Experience in drafting technical documents.

• Exposure in Information Security Management System (ISMS: ISO 27001), ITIL and ISO 20000 framework and other industry standard related best practices.

• Ability to grasp complex concepts, logical and analytical approach to solving problems.

• Ability to work under pressure and with minimum supervision.

• Excellent knowledge of English (both written and verbal) is required.

• Knowledge of Spanish or Italian is desirable.

The candidate should have the following characteristics:

• Produce and deliver quality results

• Is action oriented and committed to achieving outcomes

• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with remote teams

• Communicate in a credible and effective way