Description: Cisco Network Specialist Engineer – CCNA minimum Req'd– 5 years plus - One of Irelands largest Cisco Networks.
Overview:
My client is a large corporate financial firm and they are looking for a Network Support Specialist, the company has a large IT team in place and the role supports one of Ireland's largest Cisco Networks (Data and Voice). The position is within the Telecoms department of an IT Infrastructure division.
The successful candidate will work as part of a dynamic team environment, providing 2nd level network support to our internal customers on one of the largest Cisco networks within Ireland.
Technologies used in this department include: Cisco Switches/Routers, Cisco Call Manager, Cisco ADSM & Checkpoint Firewalls, F5 Content Load Balancers, , Infoblox DNS/DHCP, VoIP, SolarwindsNPM, Cisco Telepresence, Enterprise Wireless.
Key Responsibilities:
• Daily administration and support of the entire network.
• Adherence to IT Incident, Problem & Change procedures to ensure availability, security and reliability of the production environment.
• Provide on-call support as part of a rota to support 24 x 7 services.
• Participation in and support of major data/voice projects.
• Provide support to all end users of the telecommunications infrastructure across the organisation.
Technical Skills/Attributes
• 5+ years experience in 2nd Level Cisco Data & Voice network support and administration (routing/switching, ADSM Firewall, Call Manager).
• CCNA qualification essential.
• CVoice qualification advantageous.
• Checkpoint Firewall Manager, F5 Content Load Balancers, Unity Connections Voicemail Manager, Cisco Telepresence, Enterprise Wireless advantageous.
• 2+ years VoIP experience advantageous.
• ITIL V3 Foundation certification advantageous.
• Experienced in use of enterprise management and monitoring systems
• Excellent customer service attitude and the ability to interact with people in a professional manner are required. Takes personal responsibility for resolving difficult, contentious or complex issues.
• Ability to identify and analyze issues and problems, develop solutions and use judgment to make sound and dependable decisions.
• Ability to contribute to positive team environment by assisting co-workers whenever necessary to enhance the professional development of everyone within the team.
• Ability to communicate with own team members, other support area’s, vendors and customers, exchanging idea’s, information and instructions in a clear and concise manner.
• Proven ability to work on own initiative and as part of a project team. Project Team Leader experience advantageous.
For further information and to apply please forward an updated CV to peter@eolas.ie or call 01 286 6666

Description: Systems Architect - 24x7 Production

Overview:
The Systems Architect position is a Senior role with significant responsibility for our platform technical architecture. The successful candidate must be an Infrastructure thought leader with at least 10 years experience in the design and delivery of Enterprise Class infrastructure services.

Job Description:

The successful candidate will own the Infrastructure Platform strategy for the production 24/7 Systems. This will involve the creation, ownership and publishing of the following:
• Infrastructure Platform strategy and future vision – this vision must be aligned and continually updated to reflect business objectives
• Infrastructure Platform roadmap – programs and projects required to deliver the future vision
• Lead the design of our platform technical architecture
• Infrastructure Platform Risk Registers – any roadmap must be conscious of the need to continually reduce my clients risk profile
• Infrastructure Platform policies and standards
• Process(es) by which the strategy, roadmap, policies and standards are created and updated
• Ad-hoc infrastructure designs and consultancy to support platform projects
Skills Required
• Experienced in delivering infrastructure
• Prior ownership of IT infrastructure roadmaps across all infrastructure components – server, storage, OS including virtualisation, security, database, network, and physical environment
• A collaborative team player, working with the Platform Strategy group and the Application Architect to develop the IT infrastructure roadmaps
• Expertise – this role will provide expertise on infrastructure architecture issues, and as such requires the ability to express complex infrastructure concepts in clear and concise language with partners, prospects, and customers
The Systems Architect must maintain a level of expertise in all current technologies used by the organisation, as well as those which are likely to be considered for future use, these include:
• Data centre co-location services
• Core network technologies including Internet connectivity, WAN/MPLS services and Metro Ethernet services
• Cisco (and competing vendors) network and security products (switches, routers, firewalls, IPS, load balancing)
• Security services such as DDoS mitigation services
• Server Hardware from major vendors such as HP and IBM
• Fibre-channel storage for major vendors such as IBM, EMC and HP
• High throughput, low latency storage solutions
• Virtualisation technologies from VMware and other leading vendors
• Operating Systems – Windows 2008, Linux (RedHat Enterprise and other leading vendors) as well as a familiarity with other UNIX-like operating systems
• Database – Microsoft SQL server 2008
• Application servers including IIS and Apache/tomcat
• Logging, monitoring, alerting, reporting and trending frameworks
Remuneration Package:
Very attractive Remuneration Package.

For further information and to apply please send an updated CV to peter@eolas.ie or call 01 286 6666

Description: My Dublin City Centre based client currently requires an experienced Network Engineer to join their existing team.

Responsibilities/Skills

• Administration and support of an enterprise network infrastructure
• Substantial experience working in IT level network infrastructure or data center support
• Administration of Cisco switches and routers and F5 load balancers
• In-depth knowledge of networking and routing and switching protocols, and a solid understanding of change management principles
• Administration of CheckPoint and Cisco ASA Firewalls
• Network security including Cisco IOS, Cisco ASA, Checkpoint firewall, Juniper.
• Substantial experience working with Site to Site and Remote Access VPNs
• Network Management, Monitoring, Troubleshooting, SNMP.
• QOS, IPS
• Network documentation and diagrams
• Experience and flexibility in handling on-call responsibilities


Other
• 4+ Year Experioence in the above.
• Network certifications such as CCNA/CCNA Security/CCNP/ CCSP or equivalent experience are preferred.
• Experience in ISA and proxy security


This is an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to join a Grade A team in an excellent company offering a strong salary and benefits package. Should you be interested please contact Stephen Daly on 01 28666666 or stephen@eolas.ie for immediate consideration.

Description: Network Infrastructure Analyst – Firewall/Cisco

Overview:
The Network Infrastructure Analyst within the Infrastructure & Operations team will be responsible for providing operational and technical support to staff and relevant IT Systems. This includes interaction with external suppliers of technology. The responsibilities may include ICT planning and staff mentoring. Providing support to stakeholders as part of the clients help-desk function also resides within this team and responsibilities in this regard may be assigned by the IT Manager. The appointee will be required to have excellent problem solving, technical and people skills. The appointee will be required to resolve complex issues to satisfactory outcome and will be required to deal confidently and respectfully with the user and vendor community. The successful candidate will contribute to systems expertise as part of a multi-skilled team responsible for delivering technology solutions that extend, optimise and maintain our IT systems. We seek a proven track record of systems architecture, design and implementation and the ability to work with other technology disciplines to deliver solutions, with a strong level of Networking, Wireless Networking, Firewall & Security technologies as being key to the role. Reporting: Reporting directly to the IT Manager.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic:
Supporting the IT Manager in the operation of the Infrastructure & Operations section.
• Contribution to, and implementing the overall infrastructure strategy (in conjunction with the IT Management team)
• Contributing to the development of best practice processes and frameworks for the area and ensuring systems, services and processes are properly documented
• Supporting the IT function in delivering on the ICT Strategy

Academic Qualification / Skill Set:
The ideal candidate will have:
• Achieved or working towards a 3rd level or comparable ICT qualification/accreditation
• 3+ Years relevant experience in a similar role.
• Extensive Networking experience in a server and desktop environment, including switches (Fibre and copper), VLAN’s, TCPIP and Wireless networking, Trapeze technologies in particular.
• Strong working knowledge of Checkpoint Firewall-1, VPN’s, Remote Access, Cisco routers.
• Systems Administration and Troubleshooting Windows 2003/2008 related technologies e.g. Active Directory, Clustering
• Strong Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Server Security is an advantage.
• Good client/customer awareness
• Track record to demonstrate organising and planning capability
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to work intuitively
• Ability to prioritise and co-ordinate work
• Project ownership and ability to work within deadlines / timelines
• Ability to provide support to technical and non-technical staff
• Good communication, report writing and interpersonal skills

Remuneration Package:
Very attractive Remuneration Package.

For further information and to apply please forward an updated CV to peter@eolas.ie

Description: Excellent Opportunity for a Network Administrator for an excellent Client based in South Dublin.

The primary function is to provide support to the ICT data and voice network of the company
Essential qualifications required:
Third level Degree in a technical field
Hold an up to date CCNP or higher
Experience in dealing with complex IP and networking issues with at least 3+ years hands-on experience in a Network Support Administrator role
Have experience working with VoIP Telecommunications and Unified Communications
Have comprehensive knowledge in Windows 2003/2008 Server, ISA Server 2006, Windows Clustering and Active Directory Domain structures
Experience analysing user requirements, evaluating solutions and Project Management of solutions to implementation;
Excellent working knowledge of enterprise level security technologies (firewalls, web proxies, email gateways)
Key Duties:
1.Providing the most critical systems with support.
2.Work as part of the ICT Support and Operations Teams
3.Ensure the highest levels of security and data integrity is maintained on all systems across the group
4.Help design, develop and commission the new network and telecommunications equipment projects
5.Support Windows 2003/2008 servers, Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange 2007, SQL2005
6.Network monitoring, status reporting, system documentation and logging all important incident information
7.Analysing user requirements, evaluating solutions and Project Management of solutions to implementation
8.Complete all levels of support, log service calls in a centralised service desk system and work directly with the service desk with their calls
This role is being offered on a 12 Month fixed term basis offering attractive salary and excellent benefits.
Apply now for more details.