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Network Engineer Job at Umwalimu SACCO
Umwalimu SACCO
Job Description
Umwalimu SACCO is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Network Engineer to join its ICT and operations team. The role focuses on designing and maintaining high-performance, redundant, and scalable network architectures to support the institution's digital service delivery.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Network Design and Strategy: Design and plan high-performance, redundant, and scalable network architectures. And Forecast network growth and plan for future capacity and services.
- Implementation & Optimization: Install and configure firewalls, and load balancers. Optimize performance by monitoring traffic, reducing latency, and implementing QoS policies.
- Monitor network performance, availability, and capacity using tools (e.g., SolarWinds, PRTG).
- Conduct regular maintenance, firmware updates, and patch management for network devices.
- Security Management: Define and enforce network security standards, including access control, firewall rules, and intrusion prevention. Protect against data breaches and cyber threats through proactive security measures.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations (e.g., ISO 27001, PCI DSS).
- Monitor for unauthorized access and potential vulnerabilities.
- Operational Support: Troubleshoot complex network issues, security breaches, and hardware failures, minimizing downtime.
- Documentation & Compliance: Maintain detailed documentation for network designs, configurations, change logs and procedures. Ensure adherence to industry regulations, including privacy and data protection laws.
- Provide regular reports on network health, incidents, and improvement initiatives.
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity: Architect and implement network solutions for disaster recovery scenarios. Ensure high availability and quick recovery during outages or emergencies (Develop and maintain network redundancy and failover solutions).
- Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing for network continuity.
- Technology Evaluation: Stay informed of emerging networking technologies and recommend improvements.
- To perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Director of the Department or the Data Center Operations Manager
- Maintain stable and high-performance connectivity
- Ensure Incident Management & Operational Support
- Ensure compliance with security policies (e.g., ISO 27001, PCI DSS)
- Ensure successful Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
- Monitor and optimize network traffic and performance
- Maintain accurate Documentation and Reporting
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
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