Our client in the Data Center industry is looking for an Assistant Manager, IT Network. This role is critical to ensuring the 100% uptime, resilience, and scalability of a mission-critical data center network. You will oversee enterprise-grade LAN/WAN/SAN infrastructure, manage high-availability spine-leaf architectures, and drive both Outside Plant (OSP) and Inside Plant (ISP) structured cabling compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and troubleshoot LAN, WAN, SAN and structured cabling Outside Plant (OSP) and Inside Plant (ISP).
- Configure and manage routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers and network monitoring tools.
- Design and implement network upgrades, expansions and high-availability architecture (e.g. spine-leaf).
- Ensure network security by managing firewalls, IDS/IPS and enforcing security policies.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and respond to security incidents.
- Provide support, perform root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes.
- Maintain up-to-date network documentation, performance reports and inventory.
- Collaborate with IT, operations, vendors and service providers for support and project execution.
- Participate in on-call rotation and after-hours maintenance activities.
Job Requirements:
Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
- CCNA, CCNP, CCIE (DC), JNCIE-DC or equivalent certifications.
- ITIL & cybersecurity related certifications (e.g. CEH, CompTIA Security+) are added advantages
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Network Engineer with at least 3 years in data center or critical facility.
- Experience with enterprise routing/switching, firewall management, and data center interconnect (DCI) technologies.
- Understanding and operation adherence of ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, SOC2 or any equivalent compliance
Technical Skills:
- Strong skills of TCP/IP, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, STP, MPLS, VPN.
- Experience with structured cabling (fiber/copper), OSP/ISP cabling and cable management.
- Skilled in using network monitoring/alerting tools and software upgrade procedure.
- Familiarity with virtualization, storage networking and hybrid connectivity is an advantage.