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About the role
Responsible for the design, configuration, and maintenance of data center network infrastructure including switches, routers, and firewalls. Ensures high availability, performance, and security of critical ICT services through monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree or diploma in IT, Computer Engineering, or Telecommunications. Candidates must have 4–7 years of experience in network engineering within data center or enterprise environments.
Full description
Job Responsibilities:
- Design, configure, and maintain data centre network infrastructure, including switches, routers, firewalls, and network management systems.
- Support LAN, WAN, data centre fabric, and network connectivity across critical infrastructure environments.
- Configure and troubleshoot routing protocols, VLANs, VPNs, IP addressing, and network segmentation.
- Monitor network performance, availability, capacity, and health using network monitoring and management tools.
- Ensure network redundancy, resilience, and failover mechanisms are properly implemented and tested.
- Perform network changes, upgrades, patching, and configuration management in accordance with approved change procedures.
- Troubleshoot network incidents and coordinate with vendors, carriers, and internal ICT teams to resolve complex issues.
- Maintain accurate network diagrams, configurations, asset records, and technical documentation.
- Support cybersecurity requirements, including network segmentation, access control, firewall policies, and secure network configurations.
- Participate in commissioning, testing, and integration of new data centre network infrastructure.
- Support BMS, DCIM, CAFM, security, and other critical systems where network connectivity is required.
- Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure network infrastructure complies with company standards, data centre operational procedures, and applicable industry requirements.
- Provide technical support during planned maintenance, system upgrades, and critical events, including out-of-hours support when required.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree or diploma in IT, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field.
- 4–7 years of experience in network engineering, preferably within data centres, critical infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise environments.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, VPN, firewalls, and network security.
- Experience with enterprise/data centre networking technologies such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, or equivalent.
- Relevant certifications such as CCNA/CCNP, JNCIA/JNCIP, or equivalent are preferred.
- Experience working in a 24/7 operational environment is an advantage.