Network Design Engineer

Kingfisher•Lower Southampton Township, PA

60d•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in. At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation. We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you! We are looking for a Network Design Engineer to join us, to take responsibility for providing the network solutions that underpin all the applications and services across Kingfisher and our banners, ensuring service excellence in our stores and online. This role would suit an experienced individual that has a background in network design within a retail (or highly transferable) environment, with practical experience designing large scale and complex networks. This role is based at our B&Q head office just outside Southampton, with the expectation of 12 days a month in the office and travel to other sites across the UK/Europe as required.

Requirements

Proven experience in the design and delivery of network infrastructure solutions within a retail environment.
Experience of WAN technologies, specifically MPLS, VPNs and SD-WAN: VeloCloud and Cisco Viptela.
Experience of LAN network systems and protocols (Juniper MiST and Cisco Catalyst).
Experience of Wi-Fi technologies, specifically Juniper MiST.
Expertise in Palo Alto firewall and security design.
Knowledge of F5 load balancer and Zscaler internet proxy.
Be Customer Focused – constantly improving our customers’ experience
I listen to my customers
I use available data to help make decisions
Be Human – acting with humanity and care
I do the right thing
I am respectful
Be Curious – thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious
I build and share new ideas
I try new things and share my learnings
Be Agile – working with trust, pace and agility
I have courage to be creative
Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20
Be Inclusive – acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together
I embrace allyship
I have self-awareness and a desire to learn
Be Accountable – championing the plan to deliver results and growth
I own my actions
I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role

Responsibilities

Delivering network stability and availability and participating in the design, support and delivery of projects.
Designing, testing and implementing SD-WAN/WAN/LAN/WiFi/Security solutions within head offices, stores, distribution centres, datacentres and network connectivity into the cloud.
Contributing to the development of the network roadmap, strategy and standards, which includes the assessment of vendor solutions and new innovations.
Keeping abreast of third-party services, telecoms industry benchmarks and trends, in order to identify opportunities for development of our platforms, focusing on simplification and cost reduction.