Network Engineer (FTC) - Community Fibre : Job Details

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We’re London’s largest and fastest 100% full fibre broadband provider, bringing better internet to Londoners since 2013. Unlike most providers, we build, own and operate our dedicated fibre optic network and install it directly into the home, meaning we can deliver a super-fast connection at prices the national providers find hard to beat. We’re a relatively new company to the market, but since establishment:

We’re proud of our achievements so far, but we are not complacent and definitely not stopping here. To help us get to our future, we’re looking for forward thinkers, people with big ideas, people passionate about technology and most importantly hard working team players to join us and be a part of our growing business.

Job purpose:

The Network Engineer is responsible developing, maintaining, improving, and supporting complex environments encompassing services, servers, applications alongside both on prem and cloud platforms.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work in the Network Technology team to deliver projects and own tickets through to resolution as raised by the NOC team.
• You should be hungry for hands-on experience, have a desire to think outside of the box and have strong understanding in Systems /Infrastructure as well as having a programming background.
• Help deliver projects including testing, integration and deployment and undertake various BAU activities
• Create, improve, and maintain automation scripts to increase system maintenance efficiency and reduce repetitive manual tasks.
• Manage and maintain existing Linux based servers, both on-prem and cloud hosted, including management of security patches, distribution upgrades and configuration management, systems/codebases, installation/configuration/operation of the applications running on the servers.
• Contribute to improve existing network infrastructure, tools and automation.
• Act as an escalation point for the NOC and other teams
• Provide technical support to the team and the wider business and take part in an on call 3rd line support rota

The experience we’re looking for you to bring:

• The Engineer should have a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a network and systems environment.
• Advanced understanding of Linux.
• Configuration Management Systems - Puppet / Ansible
• Source Control - GitLab
• Scripting Python, Java
• Experience with both cloud and physical infrastructure: Proxmox, VMware, AWS
• Application and network security best practices - SSH / Iptables / TLS
• Experience implementing technologies with a focus on operability, reliability, and scalability.
• Experiencing provisioning NNI/Peering links

Why join us:

• You get to work with some of the best technology in the market
• Be part of an exciting scale up business where you can bring your ideas, bring your knowledge, we value your contribution
• We all love time off whether that’s going on an exotic holiday or a staycation, you’ll get 25 days holiday to enjoy, increasing by 1 day for each year of service up to 28 days
• Birthday leave, our treat to you
• Keen cyclist, join our cycle to work scheme
• Flexible WFH policy
• Enjoy the perks of Vitality health
• You get to work with an amazing bunch of people

What happens next:

You’ve done your bit so sit back and relax, we will review your application and come back to you.

If we think you’re not quite right for the role you have applied for but may be a better fit for another, we’ll definitely let you know.

We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation.

We are an equal opportunities employer that values diversity in our team, we welcome applications from all backgrounds.