On site - L1 Data Networking Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Rigorous and quality driven on-boarding process taking 3 months before sign-off to serve independently.
• Pro-active actions to ensure SLAs and KPIs are achieved.
• Regular documented and communicated updates with clear status, descriptions and actions in Service Now and Jira applications plus others.
• Incidents and Change form part of daily activities and need to be carefully and accurately worked on towards a successful quality closure following predefined steps.
• Preparation of Changes following precise steps, testing, communication and documentation towards a successful closure.
• Entry into Service (EiS) activities assisting colleagues.
• Project implementation assisting colleagues.
• Monitoring and alerts happen daily where knowledge and response skills are required to ensure quick actions are taken.
• Escalation to colleagues and peers, if in doubt without, to seek advice and guidance is encouraged.
• Reviewing and Updating documentation in tools like Confluence are a key element to follow with diligence.
• Equipment Installation, configuration, implementation and de-commissioning.
• Assisting to ‘make good’ and ‘tidy up’ works to deliver a final customer facing environment.
• Assisting stock management and inventory updates are regular activities and need due diligence and accuracy.
• Adherence to all H&S requirements at site(s)
• Cross country involvement with colleagues outside of the UK.
• Participation and contribution in Google, MS Teams (and others) plus Customer facing meetings when required.
• On Duty in a rota of 1 in 3 weeks over a 7-day week.
• Ability to provide input on areas that can be improved for individual and colleagues.
• Other Job Specifications:
• The candidate will undergo detailed vetting to gain security clearance (SC).
• The environment is heavy aircraft manufacturing operations with high quality,strong culture and significant safety on a global basis.
• Proven ability to work overtime, shift patterns and on-call in a rota system.
• 3 x 8-hour shift patterns commencing on site at 06:00am and 10:00am M-F and a work from home shift commencing at 08:00am which can be flexible with agreement. 30-minute break each shift.
• The need to be less than one hour away from site for any On Call emergency activity to be carried out at site
• The ability to be a lone worker on site following the agreed site communications and processes.
• Proven technical skills in technologies like Cisco, Aruba, Arista, F5, Cabling and others.
• Take part in pan-European technical expertise, forums, collaborations and escalations.
• Ability to share and gain knowledge with team members and colleagues.
• Protocols IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF
• IOS, VPN, Routing, Firewall, Google, Microsoft, Cloud environments
• Network cabling, copper, fibre, wireless, telephony can be an advantage.
• Soft skills:
• Customer satisfaction oriented.
• Team member and spirit priority.
• Autonomy.
• Good communication skills.
• Curious.
• Conscientious.
• Presentable and well mannered.
• Tidy and proud of workmanship.
• General background:
• 2-3 years’ experience in multi-site managed service network environment.
• Manufacturing 24 x 365 campus environment advantageous.
• Ability to work in shift patterns and on-call.
• Full UK driving licence (clean is desired).
• Vetting will be a requirement and must be successful.