Data Center / Network Manager
To £52,500 + £OnCall + Benefits
Essex (Flexible Hybrid working)
Who's it for...
We are proud to be partnering with a fast growing Private Equity backed Managed IT Services Provider. An established MSP now into the early stages of their high growth journey to build and expand to a 50M T/O business!
They now need a networking data center manager to oversee the efficient running of their colocation data center.
The Role…
-Take ownership of installation projects and liaise with the Networking Solutions team and onboard/commission new customers to the data center.
-Provide day to day management and support of the networking / data center
-Support sales to answer technical questions for new customer proposals
-Assist with the maintenance of monitoring systems to provide alerting
-Pro-active maintenance relating to software and firmware updates of networking equipment
-Provide remote on call where required (approx. 1-2 needs a month but on call payments still remain)
-Manage Datacentres – power management, preparation of racks for new co-lo customers.
-Some basic admin tasks for ISP
Whats needed…
-Strong Networking background and understanding of the following technologies
-Layer 2 understanding (ARP, MAC)
-IP Addressing & subnetting
-Spanning Tree
-Strong troubleshooting skills
-VPN Technologies
-IPSEC site to site
-SSLVPN
-Exposure to a range of Firewall vendors such as:
-Sophos XG
-Cisco ASA / Firepower
-Watchguard
-Fortigate
-Demonstratable skills in managing firewalls and relating technologies such as:
-Zone based firewalling
-NAT
-Web, IPS & AV filtering policies
-Device / User authentication integration
-Strong Switching skills and multi-vendor exposure
-Cisco IOS
-HP Aruba
-VLAN creation, management and trunking/tagging
-Cabling/connector types
-Wireless installation and support
-Experience with Ubiquiti Unifi and Meraki based deployments
-Understanding of different Internet connectivity types – FTTC/FTTP/Leased Line
-Understanding of Layer 3 routing protocols
-OSPF
-EIGRP
-BGP
-Experience with Windows servers and roles such as AD/DHCP/DNS/NPS
-Experience with Hyper-V / VMWare technologies
Excellent customer facing manner
-Full UK Driving license
Cloud Decisions is a deep specialist talent provider supporting Microsoft Partners, the Cyber Security ecosystem, and Microsoft end customers (Retail, FSI, Prof Services/Legal, Media, NFP).
Delivering across UK&I, USA and Europe we are proud to be selected by Microsoft UK for their Partner Talent Services initiative, we have the UK's first ever Microsoft Certified Talent Experts in Cloud, Security, AI, Data, M365 and Copilot.
Offering retained search, contingent talent services and contract project resourcing we are committed to building diversity. Disability Committed Employer and signed to the Tech Talent Charter and Microsoft's 'Partner Pledge'.
Our deep specialism focusses on 3 core pillars;
- Cyber Security + Information Security + DevSecOps
- Microsoft Azure - Platform, AI Services, Data + Cloud Native Development
- Microsoft 365, Copilot, Power Platform + Collaboration
