Network Engineer I at iOCO

The Role

• iOCO Infrastructure Services Invites You to Explore Possibilities.
• We are seeking a Network Engineer I who will play a vital role in supporting the organization's network infrastructure, ensuring reliable connectivity, security, and performance to facilitate the efficient operation of business processes and applications.

Skills and Experience

What you’ll do:

• Performance of day-to-day networking tasks to ensure network reliability, availability, and serviceability within minimal interruption.
• Network technology upgrade or expansion projects, including installation of hardware, software and integration testing, as well as coordinating these activities without disturbing function of other systems.
• Work closely with internal and external teams for problem resolution.
• Configuration of functional networks (LAN, WLAN, WAN)
• Configure and install software, servers, routers, and other network devices.
• Monitor the network to ensure optimum performance, reliability, and availability.
• Create, oversee, and test security measures (e.g., access authentication and disaster recovery)
• Contribute to the technology lifecycle & roadmap for the technologies in scope, including technology absorption & risk, technology refresh, migration & retirement strategies.
• Maintain complete technical documentation.
• Provide recommendations on improvements to network performance (capacity, availability, and scalability)

Your expertise:

• Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience in network device configuration and troubleshooting
• Solid understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model
• Understanding of networking protocols and standards (link aggregation protocols, spanning tree (STP, RSTP, MSTP) Routing Protocols (RIP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS), Access Control List (ACL), Network Address Translation (NAT) and WLAN)
• Experience working on switch, router, firewalls and wireless devices (WLAN)
• Troubleshooting skills.
• Have experience working with one of the following vendors: Juniper, Fortinet, Cisco, and Aruba
• Able to work independently and good communication skills

Qualifications required:

• Matric
• Degree or Diploma in Information Technology or related discipline
• Valid CCNA or JNCIA or higher,
• Fortinet NSE4 advantage