Company Description
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
Job Description
The Senior Network Engineer’s role within the global network team is to design, build, implement and manage networks across the enterprise. This includes planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting and optimising all network hardware and data circuits. This person will also manage network incident and change queues, troubleshoot network performance issues, as well as analyse network traffic and provide capacity planning guidance and solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Extensive hands-on technical knowledge of Cisco network hardware, network protocols and standards
• Strong analytical skills, able to investigate faults and complex network issues and perform cause analysis
• Expertise with network automation tools including Ansible, Python, Nautobot, Jason, Cisco DNA Center
• Experience with network management, monitoring and analysis tools including Solarwinds, Netflow, Telemetry, Wireshark and ThousandEyes
• Keen stakeholder management, able to begin projects by identifying stakeholders, understanding roles in the project, identifying project-related expectations, and, relative to other stakeholders, confirming common expectations while resolving expectations that are in conflict
• Documentation authoring skills in order to both update existing documentation and to create detailed handover documents on completion of any network projects
• Ability to prioritise effectively and execute tasks in high-pressure situations
• Ability to present complex technical information to non-technical audiences

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a network engineer
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a senior network engineer in a team-leadership position, or technical subject matter expert in one or more network areas
• Working in dispersed, global teams
• Experience of working in an ITIL environment and be familiar with standard ITIL practices e.g. Incident, Change, Problem, Continual Service Improvement etc.
• Experience of working within The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, methodology would be desirable
• The ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with other technical teams, including internal infrastructure teams and external service providers, vendors and partners
• Experience mentoring and providing leadership to junior team members would be desirable
• Experience of working with Equinix Service Provider and Equinix ECX (Cloud Exchange Services) would be desirable

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