Senior Network & Collaboration Engineer

About the role

Dolphin Professional Services Limited (DPSL), a multi-country enterprise ICT systems integrator based in Dar es Salaam, is looking for an experienced Senior Network & Collaboration Engineer to join its engineering team. The company wants someone who can design, deploy, integrate, secure, troubleshoot and optimise enterprise networks and collaboration environments, not just configure switches, routers and firewalls.

Required profile

• Strong experience in enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN and data centre networking.
• Hands-on expertise in routing, switching, network segmentation, high availability and network security.
• Experience designing, deploying and optimising enterprise wireless infrastructure.
• Understanding of unified communications, IP telephony, video conferencing and collaboration platforms.
• Ability to develop technical designs, network diagrams, Bills of Materials (BOMs), implementation plans and technical documentation.
• Experience with complex deployments, migrations, troubleshooting and customer escalations.
• Preferred: 5+ years of relevant enterprise engineering experience, CCNP Enterprise or equivalent, and certifications in collaboration, wireless or network security.

Required skills

• Cisco technologies and exposure to other enterprise networking OEMs.
• Knowledge of ISO 27001 and IT service management principles.
• Ability to explain the rationale behind technical designs and to engage customer ICT teams.