Senior Network Engineer

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Company Description

PSI is an award-winning full-service CRO, bringing together more than 2,700 dynamic and knowledgeable individuals working to help impact the future of medicine in more than 60 countries around the world. We support pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies with the services needed to perform clinical trials of new medicines. Our work helps patients in need improve their well-being - a fundamental driver for many of us to show up and do our best each day.

Job Description

Fixed Term Contract / Full-time / Remote. Contract length 6-8 months

You will join an exciting and challenging project to assess the state of PSI internal network infrastructure, share your expertise with our internal IT teams, setup processes and procedures that are required to manage the network successfully, and implement IT infrastructure systems to support PSI business processes and operations. You will work as a part of an international IT team, mentoring engineers to troubleshoot and optimize PSI networks for our users.

You will:

• Plan, design and implement LAN/WAN/Security solutions that are in line with industry standards and compliance.
• Review, assess, and recommend network standards to support, routing & switching, data centers, cloud-based architectures.
• Evaluate the current state of the network, provide recommendations and implement solution to ensure the network architecture are updated with latest industry best practices.
• Produce High Level Design and Low Level Design documentation for network projects.
• Develop and implement network related processes and procedures, troubleshoot reported errors.
• Optimize and maintain LAN and WAN.
• Optimize and maintain backup and restore processes.
• Translate highly technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements.
• Create IT guidelines and manuals; maintain complete technical documentation.
• Work as coach and mentor for team members, with an intuition for analyzing and solving technical problems.
• Peer review network configuration changes and provide training to empower engineers and operational staff on performing network infrastructure support and maintenance.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience as a senior network engineer, network design engineer or architect
• Professional certification (e.g. CCNP, CCSP, CCDP)
• Experience with network diagnostic, logging, monitoring and analysis tools
• In-depth understanding of communication protocols (mainly TCP/IP) and routing protocols (e.g. BGP, OSPF)
• Cloud solution experience is desirable
• Ability to assess business needs and translate them into relevant solutions
• Ability to document and maintain detailed technical documentation and procedures
• Ability to quickly learn new, unfamiliar and emerging technologies
• Organizational and mentoring skills
• Ability to precisely explain complex issues
• University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or the like
• Full working proficiency in English

Additional Information

You will work closely with driven and dedicated cross-functional teams, get all support and ownership of your projects. If you feel it is time to make your skills and knowledge visible within a growing company with true focus on its people, then PSI is the right choice for you.