Network Engineer

About the role

Co-operative Bank is hiring a Network Engineer in Westlands, Nairobi. The successful jobholder manages the performance of the bank's corporate network so that systems work as designed and meet business service level agreements, and maintains the health of the network and related systems.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the performance of the bank's corporate network to meet business SLAs.
• Monitor network performance including SNMP, logs and events, and maintain general systems health to provide proactive remedial support.
• Develop and maintain device access, control, data transmission, storage, business continuity, backup, security policies, monitoring profiles, technologies and notification rules in line with compliance best practice.
• Plan and implement product upgrades, firewall signature updates and patch releases for all ICT assets.
• Research and evaluate external technical trends, industry standards and local and international technology trends affecting networks, security and client/server platforms.
• Define and document architecture components, including hardware platform, operating system, execution, development, operation, distribution and networking technologies.
• Install, support and maintain network devices, attend to system failures and coordinate resolution of issues.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or an IT-related field; CCNP is a must, CCIE preferred.
• At least 3 years of networking and project management experience in planning, design, support and development of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure.
• Experience integrating systems in multi-user, multi-platform environments such as UNIX (AIX, Solaris), Linux (RHEL, OpenShift) and Windows.
• Experience with multivendor technologies such as Cisco, Checkpoint and Avaya, and with service provider networks and equipment.
• Excellent leadership skills and proven project management in a cross-functional environment.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, IP telephony and firewall appliances.
• Understanding of modern information security threats and solutions.