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Position: Datacoms Technician
Job ID: 963080
Location: Redhill, Surrey
Rate/Salary: Competitive (DOE)
Type: Permanent / Full Time
HSB Technical Ltd is a specialist recruiter within the Power & Propulsion, Shipbuilding, Maritime Shipping, Energy, and Subsea sectors. We have several permanent and contract vacancies available UK-wide.
This vacancy is being advertised by HSB Technical Ltd, who have been appointed to recruit for this position on behalf of our client.
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Datacoms Technician to join a specialist engineering team supporting advanced satellite communications, networking, and IT infrastructure solutions across the maritime, defence, and enterprise sectors. The role involves designing, building, commissioning, and supporting customer networks, troubleshooting complex technical issues, and contributing to the development of innovative communications solutions.
Typically, this person will be responsible for:
- Supporting the delivery of customer networking and communications projects from design through to installation and commissioning.
- Diagnosing and resolving complex networking and communications faults.
- Building, configuring, testing, and deploying customer network solutions.
- Supporting satellite communications, enterprise networking, and remote connectivity solutions.
- Producing and maintaining technical documentation for projects and customer solutions.
- Assisting with the evaluation and testing of new products, software, and technologies.
- Providing technical support for routing, switching, firewall, and network infrastructure.
- Supporting VoIP, virtualisation, email, web filtering, and high-availability systems.
- Travelling to customer sites when required to carry out surveys, installations, and network configuration.
- Working closely with internal engineering teams, customers, and suppliers to deliver projects successfully.
- Participating in engineering support and on-call rotas when required.
- Keeping up to date with emerging networking, communications, and IT technologies.
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Requirements
Essential:
- Degree, HND, or HNC in IT, Electronics, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
- Experience with Routing, Switching, and Layer 7 Firewalls.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex networking faults.
- Experience with modern satellite communications and/or IT systems.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.
- Flexible approach with willingness to travel at short notice.
Desirable:
- Cisco and/or Microsoft certifications.
- Project planning and delivery experience.
- Linux and Windows Server administration experience.
- Knowledge of VoIP and Asterisk platforms.
- Programming experience (Perl or Bash).
- Hardware and software systems design and development experience.
This vacancy is being advertised by HSB Technical Ltd who have been appointed to act as the recruitment consultancy for this role.
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