Networking Specialist
Location: London (and remote working)
Salary: Contracted on £400 - £600 per day
Benefits: Private Medical Insurance
Start Date: ASAP
Reports to: Head of Technical Operations
Hours of work: Full time
Experience: 10+ Years in networking
Language: English (required)
The Company
Databarracks is an IT Resilience managed service provider based in South West London. We do more than just protect technology – we enable our customers to get on with what they do best when the worst happens. We have grown substantially, winning new business and industry awards typical of companies many times our size. We did this by maintaining a small company ethos and hiring clever, motivated people who are invested in what they do and fun to be around.
We're a tight, focussed team, with the internal resources to provide meaningful opportunities for progression and on-the-job training. Some of our most senior staff members started in entry-level positions and have, through a combination of personal drive and internal support, made leaps up the career ladder.
The Role
Are you a networking genius with 10 years of experience supporting and enhancing networks and infrastructure?
If you’re up to date with the latest networking technologies and hungry for a new challenge in our data centre, join us to support this exciting project and help develop a high-performance network.
You'll be able to forge new relationships quickly and win the trust and respect of the team. You’ll work hand-in-hand with these internal teams to design, build, optimise and initially maintain robust and secure networking systems, supporting our core business services.
This is your chance to step into a role where strategy meets action, where your impact is seen (and felt) across the business. You won't just be networking – you’ll be influencing, collaborating and elevating the entire customer journey.
Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy and maintain datacentre networking infrastructure, including layer 2 and layer 3 topologies.
- Manage and optimize MPLS and VPLS networks, including configuring edge and core routers.
- Provision and manage cross-connects between infrastructure providers and peering partners.
- Configure and administer firewalls, including rules, VPNs, HA and traffic shaping.
- Manage enterprise switching environments, specifically:
- Mellanox switches for high-throughput and low-latency workloads.
- Meraki switches for cloud-managed network segments.
- Collaborate with systems and platform teams to support scalable and fault-tolerant deployments.
- Ensure high levels of network security, redundancy and compliance.
- Create documentation of network topology, configuration standards and troubleshooting procedures.
- Assist with migrations, incident response and performance tuning across hybrid networking environments.
The Candidate
The ideal candidate will have:
- Proven experience in datacentre networking environments.
- Hands-on experience with MPLS, VPLS and cross-connects.
- Strong knowledge of routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, etc.) and traffic engineering.
- Proficiency in configuring and troubleshooting firewalls.
- Expertise with Mellanox and Meraki switching platforms.
- Solid grasp of VLAN segmentation, link aggregation and QoS strategies.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) is advantageous.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience with software-defined storage platforms (e.g. Cloudian, QuantaStor).
- Knowledge of hybrid cloud networking (including AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute).
- Certifications such as CCNP, JNCIS or equivalents.
Personal qualities:
- Ability to multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and priorities
- Ability to learn quickly and share knowledge
- Ability to prioritise workload to ensure that team targets are met
If you're looking to join a team who work on genuinely exciting projects across all levels of cloud then this position is for you.
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