Company Description

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business of trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $10+billion invested in long-term assets.

Vitol’s customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves its customers from some 40 offices worldwide. Revenues in 2023 were $400bn.

For more information: vitol.com

Job Description

The Network Engineer will be based in Geneva and will report to the Network manager and will have responsibility for:

• Main task is to ensure the day-to-day network operation and monitoring, find and technically solve problems related to network with a business-oriented approach
• Work with other IT teams on a global scale to implement new systems and address security concerns
• Maintain network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, troubleshooting network problems, and escalating problems to vendor, office, datacenter and remote location
• Upgrade network equipment to the latest stable firmware releases
• Design and implement both wire and wireless networks of an organization, including LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet exposure and Sdwan solution
• Cisco ISE authentification (802.1x, Radius & Tacacs)
• Enhance network security, as well as documenting network processes and cabling layouts
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and security compliance standards relevant to network infrastructure
• Ensure that proxy solution is up and running and be able to manage deployment
• Nice to have telephony knowledge for SBC and Teams environment
• Will be required to work beyond normal business hours and be on call
• Integrate and be part of a Follow the Sun team

Qualifications

• Very strong technical skills on Cisco Equipment – CCNP certification preferred
• Implement and maintain Palo Alto Firewalls for network security and access control.
• Utilize SolarWinds NPM (Network Performance Monitor) and NCM (Network Configuration Manager) for network monitoring and configuration management. And ThousandEyes solution.
• Solid understanding of Cisco routing and switching products and networking (Eigrp, Ospf, BGP / DmVPN/ Catalyst & Nexus)
• SDwan, Internet & low latency circuit experience is required
• Wi-fi deployment and operation on Aruba & Cisco Meraki
• Cloud experiences on Azure, AWS, GCP is required
• Audiocode SBC + IP phones
• Proxy solution such as McAfee, Zscaler, Palo Alto
• WAF on F5 Silverline
• Automation, python script, ansible is required
• Experience with Trading Market Data is an advantage
• Education: Minimum Bachelor of Science in Networking
• Experience: 8-10 years as Network engineer in a multi-cultural environment

Additional Information

• Fluent in English both verbally and in writing (C1 level minimum)
• Flexible and available out of business hours if required
• Highly responsive, energetic and enthusiastic
• Capable of prioritising tasks and meeting critical deadlines
• Business and end users focus
• Structured, rigorous and autonomous
• Can work under pressure with good stress management
• Excellent judgment, attention to details
• Can work independently and report to the Network Team leader
• Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing
• Solution and results oriented
• Proactivity on new solutions or improvements
• Team player, with an open non-political style and a high level of personal integrity
• Ability to travel when required