NetMRI Infrastructure Network Management Engineer

Join us as a NetMRI Infrastructure Network Management Engineer

• You’ll be the subject matter expert responsible for Infoblox NetMRI products covering all operational activities, development, and training for the tool within the bank
• Leading all maintenance and upgrades on the product, you’ll ensure its stability and security, providing guidelines and training for colleagues to upskill their capabilities and assist you in the delivery of this platform
• You’ll collaborate in building the best possible solutions for monitoring the bank’s network infrastructure and use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, identifying ways to use new and existing technology tools to enhance performance, removing inefficiencies
• This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions

What you'll do

As a NetMRI Infrastructure Network Management Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation, and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets, and architecture outcomes. You’ll be responsible for developing products using modern engineering practices and tools. You’ll also be responsible for the day-to-day support and maintenance of Network Management tools Infoblox NetMRI, are used through networks for troubleshooting, documentation, configuration, and operating system compliance as well as for mass configuration updates in support of projects and operational enhancements.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team's products and support engineered products, responding to colleague feedback and new feature requests, resolving production issues, and helping colleagues consume our products. You’ll also use DevOps practices to manage and develop code using Git based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure solutions using Infoblox NetMRI
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development, contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions, and build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users to improve your product
• Provide operational support for network incidents where your knowledge of the network management products can assist with root cause identification and resolution
• Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product
• Learn and develop automated solutions using scripting languages such as Python and XML and automation tools such as YAML, JSON, Ansible, and Nautobot
• Use network management tools to automate deployment and reporting of controls and mandatory security requirements to comply with best practice and bank policies

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience of the Infloblox NetMRI product in a large enterprise networking managing 5,000+ nodes, as well as an understanding, and exposure to software development or automation scripting such as Python or Shell. Along with an understanding of the software development lifecycle, you’ll have experience in utilising modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform, and domain. Public cloud vendor knowledge covering GCP, AWS, and Azure would be beneficial.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Excellence in the use of change management processes and associated risks when implementing bulk changes across the network operating all hours
• An understanding of Cisco and Arista network products and experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
• Experience in software testing practices and tools and in using observability tools and techniques
• The ability to use data, information, and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
• Experience of working with networking and security technologies deployed to an on-premises datacentre and offices with a good understanding of protocols covering TCP/IP, SNMP, DNS, and HTTP
• Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to stakeholders