The successful candidate will have experience in high availability eCommerce and critical operations systems as well as geographically dispersed data centres. Experienced in Cisco switching platforms (LAN/WAN/WLAN/Nexus/Catalyst) supported by understanding of routing technologies (BGP/EIGRP/MPLS) and due to the varied nature of the technology supported a willingness to work on other Cisco technologies is essential.
You will have worked heavily with Cisco firewall technologies from traditional ASA (55XX-X, IPS/IDS, ACL, NAT) through to new generation Firepower platforms as well as Cisco I.S.E deployments from inception to operational delivery. An appreciation of software defined networking and Meraki technologies would be good but not essential. To support your networking and security skillset you will have an understanding and appreciation of server technologies, physical and virtual (VMWare/Hyper-V) as well as F5. CCNP certified will be a minimum requirement.