Senior Network Engineer

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Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore employs staff from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere!

The details...

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join as a Senior Network Engineer and be responsible for designing, deploying, managing and maintaining all aspects of the global network and physical infrastructure, ensuring the best possible uptime and availability to support the business' customers, goals and growth.

• Plan, build, and deliver new network capabilities and deployments from standards and design documents to meet the needs of the business.
• Maintaining network security through proper configuration of firewalls, wireless access points and VPN.
• Maintaining multi-site network operations to support internal applications, operating systems including regular maintenance with both private and public facilities.
• Physical installation and maintenance of network, power and server hardware.
• Creating and maintaining documentation and network diagrams.
• Full lifecycle management of network devices as well as support and development of network management and monitoring systems.
• Performing regular preventative maintenance tasks such as capacity management and software updates.

• In this role, you'll need to interact and engage with other teams and explain technical issues to non-technical staff. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required to develop and maintain productive working relationships.
• Good organisational skills, the ability to handle multiple projects and work items and a keen attention to detail. If you are currently certified, this would be a bonus.
• Experience running, managing and implementing all aspects of a global enterprise network architecture (WAN, campus and data centre).
• Strong technical experience managing, supporting and optimising:
  Enterprise and data centre routing and switching architectures, including OSPF, BGP, ECMP, and VXLAN.
• Network security architectures and SASE, including firewalls, VPN and IDS/IPS.
• Data centre power, cooling and cabling standards, including experience of single and multi-mode fibre optic networks.
• Experience working with WAN providers and fibre network infrastructure, including DIA, SDWAN, wavelength and dark fibre circuits.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud-provider networking.
• Understanding of VPN technologies including security and cryptographic standards.
• Experience of deploying, managing and maintaining network monitoring systems.
• Network access control systems and protocols, such as AAA, RADIUS, 802.1x.
• DHCP, DNS and IPAM and SSL/PKI technologies.
• Excellent diagnostic and troubleshooting skills, at every level of the OSI model, from cabling, through network devices to the operating system and applications.
• Ideally, you'll also have:
  Experience with scripting, automation or orchestration deployment tools.
• Exposure to a range of different networking vendors and solutions.
• Understanding of information security standards, e.g. ISO 27001.
• Strong AWS or other Cloud network experience, including technologies such as Direct Connect, VPC, Transit Gateway, Security Groups or their equivalents.
• Systems administration experience within a mixed Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and/or Android, including physical and virtual environments.
• Good…