Network Engineer

Seven Up Bottling Company is one of the largest and oldest beverage manufacturing companies in Nigeria, operating nine automated bottling plants across the country.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• The Network Engineer handles management of critical network infrastructure, and configurations, enhancing network stability, secure connectivity across sites, and overall business continuity.

Responsibility

• Design, deploy, and manage enterprise network infrastructure including LAN, WAN, WLAN, firewalls, routers, switches, and access point controllers.
• Ensure high availability, performance optimization, and secure connectivity across all business locations and critical applications.
• Monitor network health and proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents to minimize downtime and service disruption.
• Configure and maintain network security controls, including firewall policies, VPNs, access control, intrusion prevention, and perimeter security.
• Manage IP addressing, VLANs, routing protocols, bandwidth utilization, and overall network segmentation and optimization.
• Support infrastructure expansion, new site deployments, upgrades, and integration of network services and technologies.
• Maintain comprehensive and up-to-date network documentation, including topology diagrams, configurations, and change records.
• Collaborate with IT security, infrastructure, and service desk teams while ensuring compliance with IT policies, standards, and business continuity requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Professional certifications such as CCNA (required); CCNP, Fortinet, or equivalent certifications are an added advantage.
• Minimum of 3–5 years' hands-on experience in network administration and support within an enterprise environment.
• Strong experience in configuring and managing firewalls, routers, switches, VPNs, and wireless access point controllers.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing protocols, and network security principles.
• Experience in troubleshooting complex network issues across multi-site environments.