Senior Network Engineer
Boardroom AppointmentsCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Posted January 5, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Boardroom Appointments, founded in 1989, is a global talent solutions provider delivering recruitment, contract staffing, project staffing, temporary employment, training, HR consultancy, and expatriate mobility services across Africa, EMEA, the Americas, and Europe. Leveraging a deep industry focus that spans FMCG, finance, manufacturing, oil & gas, healthcare, logistics, IT, renewable energy, retail, agriculture, government, and call‑center services, the firm custom‑builds solutions that match each client’s unique talent needs. With a worldwide candidate database and a team of seasoned recruitment and HR professionals, Boardroom Appointments offers end‑to‑end services—from executive search and people analytics to payroll outsourcing and workforce management—ensuring seamless, high‑quality placements that let clients concentrate on their core business. Their distinctive value lies in a partnership model that blends industry expertise, data‑driven insights, and a culture of passion and professionalism to deliver flawless, long‑lasting results.
Job Description
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for providing service to clients by identifying and resolving technical incidents and problems, ensuring zero missed service level agreement (SLA) conditions.
Requirements
- Ability to communicate and work across different cultures and social groups
- Ability to plans activities and projects well in advance, and considers possible changing circumstances
- Ability to work well in a pressurized environment
- Understanding of TCP/IP and networking protocols
- OSPF, EIGRP, QoS and Multicast configuration and troubleshooting understanding BGP
- layer 2 networking, including STP, VLANs and port channel/Ether channel technology, etc.
- layer 3 networking, including dynamic routing protocols (like the ones mentioned above) and HSRP/VRRP/GLBP/SVI, etc.
- CCNP with solid SD WAN experience
- Cisco SD-WAN Viptela knowledge with OMP routing protocols
- Experience with various tools such as Protocol Analyzer, IPAM, RADIUS, etc.
- VxLAN knowledge would be advantage
- Network Packet captures and analysis (Wireshark)
- Development/Automation/Scripting knowledge (Python)