Network Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals safer businesses and ultimately safer nations. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike enabling the coordination thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.

Join our Shared Platform services team as a Network Engineer where you will be instrumental in the planning designing and implementation of new networking solutions all whilst providing critical support for existing infrastructure. These solutions have multiple products deemed as critical national infrastructure and operate on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform.

Job Description

This role is primarily remote with travel to UK locations. This may extend to international locations also.

About the Products You Will Support:

• Guardian is a call taking & dispatching platform used by emergency service operators across the UK & Europe. We help 999 or 101 operators answer calls from the public and dispatch out nearby responders enabling the right response when every second counts and ultimately helping our customers save lives.

• Pronto is a digital notebook service providing front line police officers with access to national systems to obtain information quickly and efficiently when working within their communities. Pronto also allows for digital evidence collection which can be used as evidence in juridical processes location services for fast dispatching of officers and a range of many other tools to aid in an officers day to day activities.
  

Our Team Structure:

Our team is structured into distinct streams: networking virtualisation and Infrastructure. These teams collaborate closely to manage all facets of the infrastructure. Our primary goal is to provide optimal service for the hosted products and ultimately for our customers who are dedicated to protecting our communities.

The infrastructure is going through rapid changes in every aspect over the next year. You will succeed in this role if you are a person who wants to learn new technologies in a fast paced environment have a willingness to get involved with different projects all whilst maintaining the demanding Service Level Agreements of our existing hosted solutions.

Operational Responsibilities:

• Manage and support networking operations across multiple Motorola sites and customers remote sites.

• Maintaining the firewall rules routing policies NAT and security objects across multiple different technologies.

• Design Review & Maintain network documentation and topology diagrams.

• Work with third party vendors to troubleshoot outages / circuits faults etc.

• Participating in an on-call rotation (begins after 6 months of service)

• Conduct capacity planning performance tuning and optimisation.

• Ensure compliance with security policies and regulatory requirements from a public sector perspective such as ISO 27001 Cyber Essentials and NCSC Security best practices.

• Travel to any of our internal or customer sites as necessary these are currently all located in the UK but may entail international travel.

• Support the Incident Management team in ensuring efficient delivery and resolution of incidents and problems with a solution.

• Continuous personal and professional development in keeping abreast of emerging industry and technological trends and threats.

Basic Requirements

Core Requirements:

• 3 years minimum experience in a similar role.

• Ability to attain NPPV3 and SC clearance.

Must be a resident of the UK for a minimum of 5 years to obtain.

Communication Skills:

• Must effectively be able to articulate network concepts and solutions to diverse audiences including technical peers non-technical stakeholders customers and internal staff.

Network Infrastructure

• Strong understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking concepts (VLANs routing protocols subnetting STP).

• Hands-on experience with Aruba Switches (or other vendors e.g. Cisco HP Juniper).

• Experience in managing and troubleshooting private circuits.

• Experience with WAN technologies (DIA IPSEC over internet EWLs).

Routing Infrastructure

• Strong understanding of routing protocols (OSPF / BGP).

• Experience in designing and maintaining multi-site routing topologies.

• Experience in troubleshooting routing problems (routing loops asymmetric routing route redistribution issues etc)

Firewalls & Security

• Administration of a large firewall estate across multiple sites (Fortinet / Checkpoint).

• Experience in writing reviewing and maintaining firewall rulesets aligned with the operational policy and security standards.

• Familiarity with NAT (static / dynamic / PAT) UTM features IDS/IPS policies.

• Knowledge of VPN technologies (IPSEC IKEV2 route based).

Monitoring & Security

• Experience with taking packet captures and using analysis tools such as wireshark to troubleshoot connectivity issues.

• Experience with network monitoring (Grafana/Prometheus/Solarwinds/Fortianalyser).

• Experience in identifying security best practices when deploying solutions.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with SD-WAN solutions (Fortinet SD-WAN)

• Basic understanding of SD-WAN configuration such as overlay and underlay path selection link monitoring etc.

• Experience with SIP technologies.

• Experience with SDN technologies (VMWare NSX Cisco ACI OVN)

• Experience with RedHat Openshift solutions.

In return for your expertise well support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also to reward your hard work youll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes

• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).

• 25 days holiday entitlement bank holidays.

• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.

• Company Car Scheme

• Private medical insurance.

• Employee stock purchase plan.

• Flexible working options.

• Life assurance.

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.

• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.

• Employee health and wellbeing support EAP wellbeing guidance etc.

• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.

• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.

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