Premier Lotteries Ireland
 
Job Title                                          Senior Network Engineer 
Department                                     Technology
Reporting to                                    Head of Infrastructure
Direct Reports                                 None
Date completed/updated               August 2023
 
 

 

Basic Function and Purpose of this Role

 
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the design and maintenance of PLI’s IT networks. The person will act as a senior member of the technology department, and will be able to offer guidance and best practice on a range of networking technologies, as well as be able to maintain the existing networking infrastructure.
 
 
 

Main Tasks & Responsibilities

 

• Oversee all of PLI’s network, compromising of internal LAN, WAN, and support of the 3rd party networks
• Design and secure all of PLI’s networks up to industry best practices
• Partner with projects team and security teams, ensuring implementing network designs up to their requirements for upgrading existing corporate networks, as well as re-architecting network segments to facilitate new requirements, technologies and growth.
• Resolve network communications and operations problems impacting external or internal customers.
• Support other operational teams in the implementation of their projects where networks are affected.
• Engage with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business network requirements.

 
 
 
Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Math, or Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.

 
 
Relevant Experience

• 10+ Years IT experience in the following areas:
• Broad/Hands on knowledge across leading network vendors such as Fortigate, Aruba and HP
• Knowledge in any of MS Teams telephony, Aruba wifi and Azure networking would be a distinct advantage.
• Broad knowledge of Project Management methodology and best practices.
• Knowledge of Network technologies, BGP, DMVPN, VPN, SSH
• Strong command on Datacenter Network technologies

 
 
Technical Skills

• Networking, including LAN/WAN - Firewalls, switches, telephony and wifi
• Experience with TCP/IP protocol communications.
• Experience in client VPN technologies (Knowledge of AOVPN would also be desirable)
• Experience with Design - HLD/LLD is desirable

 
 
Key Competencies 

• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Self-starter with demonstrated listening skills.
• Serves as a mentor to junior employees and leads others and uses good judgment.

 
 
Working Relationships
Internal – wider technologies teams(namely IT security and IT Projects team), key business stakeholders
External – Internet providers, hardware providers, 3^rd party vendors