- Security Products Expertise: Advanced configuration knowledge and experience with enterprise-grade security products, specifically highlighting Palo Alto firewalls.
- Advanced Cisco Networking: Advanced configuration knowledge and hands-on experience with Cisco Routers, Wireless systems, and Switches, including Nexus data center switches.
- Routing Protocols & Technologies: In‑depth configuration knowledge of VXLAN, Advanced OSPF, BGP, and complex route redistribution.
- Industrial Control Systems (ICS/SCADA): Essential experience dealing with mission‑critical, safety‑critical, or SCADA systems, with a strong understanding of industrial protocols such as Modbus, PLCs, and support networks.
- Operational Flexibility & Mobility: Must hold a current unrestricted driver's license for travel to roadside, motorway, and tunnel environments, and have the full ability to participate in after‑hours onsite work during planned change windows.
Good-to-Have:
- Specific Network Management Tools:
Experience with monitoring and management products such as SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, and Cisco ISE.
- Network Automation: Experience in network automation and a demonstrated ability to drive operational efficiency through the automation and simplification of technologies and processes.
- Academic Qualifications: A tertiary degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Scale & Criticality Experience: Success in a comparable position supporting enterprise‑level, mission‑critical networks that handle medium to high‑volume transactions.
- Frameworks & Methodologies: Experience working in an ITIL setting and experience in applying FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis).
- Professional Certifications: Active certifications in Cisco and/or Palo Alto technologies