Networkology Consultant (Performance Management) Job: Join Our Team

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Role Type: Network Consultant (Performance Management)
Start Date: ASAP.
Location: UK Wide. Home based with frequent attendance at customer locations.
Salary: £40,000 – £55,000 DOE
Benefits: Company car allowance, 36 days holiday and more.
Who Can Apply?: UK Nationals only.

LOOKING FOR A NEW OPPORTUNITY?

This role represents a crucial and exciting part of our technology growth plans. We are looking for an experienced and dynamic network professional that can be the cornerstone of a new initiative that we are launching.

This is a genuinely unique opportunity to help build a new capability whilst gaining exposure, training, and certifications in an array of different technologies.

OUR VALUES

We are a people focused company and pride ourselves on how we treat our employees, contractors, suppliers and clients alike. We are a sociable organisation (where global pandemics allow!) and actively encourage open communication and teamwork at all levels, without any of the pitfalls of larger companies with complex hierarchies. This is an opportunity to get onboard with a rapidly growing company. For the right individual there will be multiple opportunities for training, certification and skills growth. You wouldn’t be working alone; you’d be working closely with and reporting to the Technical Director along with our other Technology Consultants, who are experts in their fields.

LOCATION

We are a ‘remote first’ organisation with staff in various parts of the country. We have no traditional offices currently, instead we utilise the latest in collaborative software to ensure that we maintain contact and communication regardless of our location. Contractually your the primary place of work would be our notional base in Hartham Park, Corsham, Wiltshire. However, it is expected that you would be required there rarely. This role also involves working with clients at their locations when required. Ordinarily work is expected to be remote work, however the normal practice would involve travel within the EMEA region for up to 50% of your time, with a heavy focus currently on the UK market.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

This role is expected to be extremely varied. Typically, this person would be involved in the following:

Help develop, test and market Performance Management focused solutions and products.
Work alongside other Networkology staff to manage client stakeholders and develop business leads.
Support pre-sales engagements, customer presentations and other duties as required to support client acquisition.
Design and deploy solutions for customers in the post-sales space.
Advise and consult on industry good practise whilst considering the needs of the customer.
Work on both on-premise and cloud based solutions both within Networkology and on client estates.
Troubleshoot complex network issues using packet level analysis tools and products.
Learn new technologies and invest in self-development to keep knowledge and skill set in synchronisation with product developments.
Be present at technology partner and trade events to help expand brand awareness.

OUR VALUES

We are a people focused company and pride ourselves on how we treat our employees, contractors, suppliers and clients alike. We are a sociable organisation (where global pandemics allow!) and actively encourage open communication and teamwork at all levels, without any of the pitfalls of larger companies with complex hierarchies. This is an opportunity to get onboard with a rapidly growing company. For the right individual there will be multiple opportunities for training, certification and skills growth. You wouldn’t be working alone; you’d be working closely with and reporting to the System Director along with our other Technology Consultants, who are experts in their fields.

LOCATION

We are a ‘remote first’ organisation with staff in various parts of the country. We have no traditional offices currently, instead we utilise the latest in collaborative software to ensure that we maintain contact and communication regardless of our location. Contractually your the primary place of work would be our notional base in Hartham Park, Corsham, Wiltshire. However, it is expected that you would be required there rarely.With the above in mind this role largely involves working with clients at their locations. There will also be opportunities for remote work, however the normal practice would involve travel within the EMEA region for up to 70% of your time, with a heavy focus currently on the UK market.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

At a high level, typical day to day responsibilities would include but may not be limited to:

The opportunity to drive complex deployments of technologies whilst working side by side with the customers to resolve their unique problems.
Empower customers to take on the next wave of questions on their own and support them on an ongoing journey.
Support pre-sales engagements, customer presentations, and other duties as required to support client acquisition.
Drive customer business value and benefit realisation via effective implementation of Networkology-partnered technologies.
Collaborate across the entire organisation to bring access to product and technical teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation captured from customer input.
Advise and consult on architectural good practise, whilst considering the customer’s design authority.
Bridge the void between technical and commercial elements and application of a strategic mindset.
Develop monitoring of both on-premise and cloud applications and infrastructure.
Learn new technologies and invest in self-development to keep knowledge and skillset in synchronisation with product developments.
Create and deliver knowledge transfer workshops, imparting good practise from real-world uses cases and scenarios.

YOUR STRENGTHS

Being a people focused company, we are looking to invest in individuals with strong skills and a desire to be part of the growing company family. Your attitude, team fit and potential will likely be more important than direct industry experience, however there are some key personal strengths that we are looking for a candidate to possess. These are:

Passion! Our customers are just as passionate about the technologies as we are about the solutions we bring to them.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Confident with being client facing and meeting new people.
Ability to communicate complex knowledge across all levels of an organisation in-order-to enable them to shape strategy and future planning.
Ability to collaborate effectively both with colleagues and clients alike.
Willingness to learn and invest time in new technologies.
Ability to collaborate and listen to technical and non-technical consumers from IT administrators to executive level partners.
Effective and efficient time management capabilities.
Excellent attention to detail.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Networking is the primary focus of this role, with a specific lean towards Application and Network Performance Management. As a Networkology Consultant it’s always beneficial to have a broad range of experience. Networkology offers training and coaching, however some skills will need to be demonstrated from day one. Previous experience in a similar role would be beneficial but is not mandatory.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Very strong network (layers 1-4) experience, ideally with CCNP/CCDP/JNCIP type certification.
The confidence and experience to talk in-depth about routing, switching, packets, protocols and everything in between.
Very knowledgeable in core network services such as DNS, DHCP, WINS, NTP.
Experience of LAN/WAN emulation, packet capture, traffic shaping and/or QoS.
A troubleshooters mindset, able to use your extensive industry experience to help pinpoint issues and resolve customer pain-points.
A wide IT knowledge base, encompassing networks, servers, virtualisation, firewalls, performance management, cloud, and various other technologies.
Strong Operating System experience (Windows, Linux), comfortable with command-line operations.
Proficient in Microsoft Office products.
The ability to present to clients and walking through product and solution demonstrations.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

Certification in OS, Server or Cloud technologies.
Experience of APM or analytics products such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Relic One, Riverbed Aternity, AppDynamics, NetBrain, Solarwinds etc
The ability and confidence to host technical product webinars.
Technical writing abilities allowing you to create article, social media and website content.
Experience working within or supporting the public sector, specifically government departments or the military.
Existing security clearance (SC/DV) or ability to achieve it.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER

At Networkology we place a real emphasis on people and their development within the team. As well as the opportunities mentioned above we also offer the following as part of the package:

£40,000-£55,000 basic salary depending on experience.
£4,000 Company car allowance.
36 days annual leave including public holidays.
Matched pension contribution of up to 8%.
Performance related bonus linked to both personal and company objectives.
Access to training that mutually benefits yourself and Networkology.
Access to referral bonus’ for the successful referral of new staff.
Networkology provided mobile phone, IT equipment and software to facilitate your work.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Splunk is the primary focus of this role, however as a Networkology Technology Consultant it’s always beneficial to have a broad range of experience. Networkology offers training and coaching, however some skills will need to be demonstrated from day one. Previous experience in a similar role would be beneficial but is not mandatory.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Splunk Certifications (Admin or Architect (preferred), or equivalent hands-on experience (min 2 years).
Strong understanding of SPL, ability to construct complex efficient queries.
Experience in deployment and development of Splunk architectures.
Experience working with system and network architectures.
Knowledge/experience with regular expressions.
Strong Operating System experience (Windows, Linux), comfortable with command-line operations.
Awareness of automation technologies (Terraform, Ansible and Puppet).
Proficient in Microsoft Office products.
Supporting the identification, development and implementation of new use cases.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

Additional Splunk certification and/or experience in ES, ITSI, Signal FX etc.
Working knowledge or recent experience with scripting languages (bash), application development (java, python, .NET), databases and analytical tools.
Experience with containerised (Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes) and Cloud-based (AWS, Azure) services.
Existing security clearance (SC/DV) or ability to achieve it.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER

At Networkology we place a real emphasis on people and their development within the team. As well as the opportunities mentioned above we also offer the following as part of the package:

£53,000 per annum basic salary.
Company car allowance of £6,000 per annum.
36 days annual leave including public holidays.
Matched pension contribution of up to 8%.
Performance related bonus linked to both personal and company objectives.
Access to training that mutually benefits yourself and Networkology.
Access to referral bonus’ for the successful referral of new staff.
Networkology provided mobile phone, IT equipment and software to facilitate your work.

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WHAT WE CAN OFFER

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