Senior Network Engineer and Team Lead

Do you want to work as a Team Leader in a technology driven company? Are complex Network solutions the thing that makes your heart tick? Then the job as Network Engineer at Basefarm is the one for you!

About the position and two roles

You will work in a cross country team with our data-center network solutions. As part of the Network team you will work with and coordinate the other members of the network staff to maintain and improve the network environment. Working with events, incidents, changes and various projects.

Your workplace will be at our office in Stockholm, but the department carries out work on the environments in all three Basefarm countries.

This position includes two different roles, first as senior network engineer and then to fulfill the role as team lead for the Stockholm Network group. As an example, your work will include:

Senior Network Engineer:

• Prioritize, diagnose and solve incidents according to agreed procedures
• Take responsibility for problem resolution, recommend options and implement if required.
• Reviewing and implementation of Customer change requests
• Planning, assessing and executing maintenance tasks on the production platform
• Design and build network solutions according to customer needs and BF principle
• Assist with system designs and specifications, overall architectures, topologies, configuration databases and design documentation of networks
• Define, document and carry out small projects alone or with a small team, actively participating in all phases.

Team Lead:

• Plan maintenance activities and participate in CAB
• Plan use of resources (vacation, dispatch, maintenance work, projects etc.)
• Be the communication interface towards sales, project and service delivery
• The point of contact for escalation in the Stockholm office
• Follow-up on delivery towards external and internal stakeholders
• Participate in the budget planning process

Who are you?

At Basefarm one of our values is "Close", meaning working close to our customers internal and external as well as your co-workers. To succeed with this we see that you are a team player who understands the importance of cooperation. As a senior you are expected to mentor and assist more junior members of staff. In addition, setting a good example with regards to reaching out to other teams and to the customers for strengthen partnership and collaboration comes natural to you.

As a person we believe that you are structured, solution oriented and service minded. You understand an outside in approach, how customer needs translate to the everyday work.

For the right person, there are good opportunities to continue to grow with new challenges and having a career at Basefarm.

Requirements for the position:

• 3 years or more experience from working in a data-center network environment
• Experience from configuring & administering F5 BIG-IP LTM system and load balancing services
• Experience from configuring & administering Junipers switches and routers
• Experience from configuring & administering Cisco ASA firewall systems
• Fluent in Swedish & English (speaking & writing)
• Experience from working in Linux and Windows operating systems
• Have worked in a company using the ITIL framework

The following are considered a merit:

• Juniper JNCIP-ENT or DC track
• Cisco CCNP routing and switching Certification or Data-center track
• F5 301b certification
• Experience from working with VM-ware NSX
• Linux bash scripting & python programming
• Setting up and maintaining Ansible playbooks for network automation

There will be some requirements to work evenings and nights. With experience, requirements might include on-call rotation as well.

Interested?

Please send your application to as soon as possible but no later than June 30. Interviews and selection will be ongoing.

Basefarm är en europeisk driftleverantör som skapar marknadsledare genom att integrera nyckelkompetenser för digital transformation av Big Data, Molntjänster och Informationssäkerhet till ett serviceerbjudande. Företaget tillhandahåller strategisk rådgivning, arkitektur och implementation tillsammans med förvaltning och drift av lösningar på flera olika molnplattformar. Verksamheten grundades år 2000 i Norden och idag är det 550 ledande ingenjörer och rådgivare som arbetar i Norge, Sverige, Nederländerna, Tyskland och Österrike.

IT ligger i vårt DNA. Grunden för företaget är i stort sett det samma sedan början; ett kundfokuserat, transparent, ärligt företag med en platt organisation. Basefarm har certifierats som ett "Great Place to Work" vilket är något vi tar mycket allvarligt; vår personal är vår största tillgång! Vi är en vänlig grupp av nördar som tycker om att jobba hårt men också njuta av allt vi gör.