Network Engineer (Brussels)

Network Engineer (Brussels)

Bridge351 is looking for a Network Engineer to join a strategic project for the European External Action Service (EEAS)

Nature of Tasks

• Establishing the networking environment by designing system configuration, defining, documenting, and enforcing system standards.
• Designing and implementing new solutions and improving resilience of the current environment.
• Maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages and scheduling upgrades.
• Undertaking data network fault investigations in local and wide area environments, using information from multiple sources.
• Supporting PKI implementation and use.
• Provide remote and on-site technical support.
• Capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centres.
• Assist with evaluating and testing products delivered by other teams to ensure that they conform to the requirements and methodology.
• Assists the Solution Architect in the architecture design and definition.
• Writes documentation related to design, installation, configurations of system parts related.
• Defining and documenting standard operating procedures.
• Works with Management team to manage expectations, deliverables, and satisfaction.

Role and responsibilities

• Minimum 5 years of experience in network engineering in large and complex projects providing solution design services in line with organizational objectives and business requirements.
• At least one certification in technology related domain: CISCO, ...
• Expertise in local area protocols.
• Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP Data Networks (including CWDM, QOS)
• Excellent knowledge of network protocols.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP Voice Networks (including QOS, POE, …).
• Very good knowledge of Ethernet switching and routing.
• Excellent knowledge of operating systems.
• Very good knowledge of network management, monitoring and debugging tools.
• Good knowledge of proxy servers.
• Ability to provide in depth as well as high-level technical presentations for different technical level stakeholders.
• Must demonstrate the ability to multi-task between EEAS, vendors, peers, and management while showing the ability to independently resolve complex issues.
• Strong knowledge of IT technical engineering to perform tasks and interact with the other engineer specialists
• Basic knowledge of application layer XML filters.
• Good knowledge of Bandwidth Management.
• Very good knowledge of application Switches, load balancing and redundancy solutions.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in highly available environments with multiple site support (Business continuity and disaster recovery planning technics, technologies, exercising and testing).
• Excellent analysis and problem solving.
• Prioritizing incidents, requests, and changes.
• Very good technical writing and verbal communication skills.
• At least 7+ years of experience in Linux Administration; experience with automation is a plus.

Language

Advanced English

Location

Brussels, Belgium

Work mode

Hybrid (on-site at Brussels offices + remote)