Senior Network Engineer

Limbe Leaf Tobacco Company Limited

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER

Limbe Leaf Tobacco Company Limited is seeking qualified, experienced, and motivated individual to fill the position of Senior Network Engineer at its Head Office in Lilongwe.

JOB SUMMARY

The successful candidate will provide Local and Wide area network support services for the Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) group within the Universal Global IT team. The candidate will work independently and with other team members to continually tune the network architecture. This person in this position must have both the ability to work on routers\switches\firewalls as well as plan and design network topology on a global scale.

The candidate will work directly with Global IT team members, users, stakeholders, and management in the process of requirements gathering, project planning and communicating project-related information. Quality customer service and great communication skills, both verbal and written, are a must in this role.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Provide administration and technical support for the corporate LAN, WAN and VPN sites and systems. This includes installing and configuring all components, performing upgrades, and troubleshooting all aspects of issues with these platforms. Detailed switch, router and firewall configuration including VLANs, Routing, QOS, ACLs, NAT, VPN tunnels and VPN client.
  • Resolving any networking issues to acceptance of the party placing the request.
  • Research and development for solutions to existing issues or improved connectivity/ productivity. Including all networking devices. Direct unresolved issues to the next level of support personnel
  • Documenting setup of all existing and new products, solutions, changes, etc.
  • Reviewing network management system for logging and system traps for errors related to failure, configuration, security events, utilization, etc. Then notifying the appropriate groups(s) or individuals of the issues and working to resolve same.
  • Application performance troubleshooting and solving same.
  • Troubleshooting and setup of wireless access points, devices, and clients.
  • Work with vendors and ISP’s to negotiate contracts.
  • High-level network planning
  • Mentoring junior level Engineers

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful candidate shall possess the following qualifications and experience:

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems or Computer Network Engineering or Electrical Engineering or Electronics from a recognized University.
  • Must have CISCO CCNA/CCNP Enterprise / (Routing and Switching) certification.
  • 10+ years of local and wide area networking experience utilizing primarily Cisco products.
  • Experience configuring Cisco routers, switches and firewalls.
  • Routing experience including static, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and policy routing.
  • Wireless systems experience to include secure configuration, encryption and central authentication.
  • Network monitoring/management experience utilizing SNMP and or SSH.
  • IP based network design, sub-netting, ACLs, route-maps.
  • Familiarity with circuit ordering, configuration, troubleshooting and resolution.
  • Network Security design, implementation, and monitoring.
  • Quality of Service experience, including traffic shaping.
  • CHECKPOINT FIREWALL certification or experience desired
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines and budgets.
  • Ability to work and solve problems independently and within a team environment.
  • Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated record at efficiently and effectively communicating and working with all organization levels.
  • Ability to travel locally and internationally as needed.
  • Clean driving license.
  • Fully conversant with all fire regulations and actively participate in all fire drills conducted on site.

METHODS OF APPLICATION

Interested persons with the specified qualifications and experience should submit their applications enclosing a detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) with names and contact details of two traceable referees by 1st August 2025 to:

Human Resources and External Affairs Director
Limbe Leaf Tobacco Company Limited
P O Box 40044
Kanengo
LILONGWE 4

Only shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.