Senior Networks and Systems Engineer

Our client is seeking a Senior Networks and Systems Engineer to join their growing team. This role is responsible for ensuring the organisation’s IT infrastructure is effectively managed, supporting both daily operations and long-term business growth. The successful candidate will play a key role in managing and optimising network environments and systems, maintaining high service standards, safeguarding data integrity, and enabling the organisation to adapt to evolving technological demands.

Key Responsibilities

The selected candidate will be responsible for configuring, maintaining, and managing firewalls, switches, servers, and other network and security appliances. They will administer and support virtualised and cloud-based infrastructure environments while monitoring, testing, and validating backup systems to ensure data resilience and performance.

The role includes performing operating system updates, patching, and security hardening in line with best practices, as well as troubleshooting infrastructure and network issues using a structured and analytical approach.

Additionally, the candidate will contribute to infrastructure capacity planning to support business growth and ensure high availability of services, working closely with service integrators to track incident resolution. They will coordinate with vendors, stakeholders, and service providers across design, deployment, integration, and monitoring phases, while also adapting plans and proposing alternative technical strategies as required.

Requirements

Candidates should have a minimum of four years’ experience in a similar engineering or infrastructure role, along with a strong command of the English language, both written and verbal. The ability to work independently with minimal supervision is essential.

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, although equivalent practical experience will also be considered.

Technical Skills

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with the Fortinet ecosystem, including firewalling and routing, FortiEMS, IPsec VPNs, FortiClient VPN, ACLs, and high availability configurations.

They should also demonstrate solid experience with Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and VLAN design, as well as administration of Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and Azure environments. Experience with virtualisation and cloud platforms such as VMware and AWS is required.

Further requirements include hands-on experience with enterprise hardware (such as Dell and HP), backup solutions like Veeam and Backblaze, and strong knowledge of Linux operating systems and the TCP/IP networking stack