SHIVZ Solution Hiring! Full Time Assistant Manager IT Network - Data Centre in Johor - Ricebowl

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.

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
• 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.