Network Engineer

9 Days Old

Role: SC Cleared Network Engineer
Location: Farnborough (2 to 3 days per week onsite)
Length: 6 months
Rate: £750 to £800 via umbrella
***CANDIDATES MUST HOLD ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE AND BE SOLE UK NATIONALS DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE WORK AND INDUSTRY***
The Role As a Senior Network Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering engineering excellence across one or more technology domains by providing deep technical insight, drive continuous improvement, and ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with strategic objectives.
Day-to-day, you'll lead the design, implementation and support of complex technology solutions, ensuring high performance, reliability, and security. As the Senior Engineer, you will also act as a technical authority, mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across teams to deliver integrated solutions.
Your responsibilities will include: · Leading the design, implementation and support of enterprise-grade solutions across one or more technology domains · Take ownership of complex technical deliverables, ensuring quality, performance, and alignment with architectural and strategic standards and provide technical leadership and mentoring to Engineers and Associate Engineers, supporting their development and integration into the team · Collaborate with principal engineers, architects and capability leads to align engineering outputs with strategic goals · Represent engineering in cross-functional discussions, influencing decisions and driving alignment across teams · Contribute to technology roadmaps and continuous improvement initiatives · Ensure compliance with security, performance and operational standards and proactively identify and mitigate risks across engineering deliverables and service operations
Essential experience of the Senior Network Engineer: · Experience with large-scale, multi-site enterprise networks across LAN, WAN, datacentre, and hybrid-cloud\cloud environments · Knowledge of routing and switching protocols including BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN, WI-FI and Network Authentication Protocols (e.g. 802.1x), across Cisco Catalyst/Nexus/WLC, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto, Dell products. · Familiarity with Cisco, Palo Alto, and F5 security solutions, including firewalls, intrusion prevention/detection systems, and network access control solutions · Eperience with software defined Networking including virtualization technologies such as VMWare NSX-T · Experience in producing detailed network designs and documentation aligned with business and security requirements · Has experience with network automation, supported by development teams
Essential qualifications for the Senior Network Engineer: · CCNP or equivalent industry experience · Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
This role is 37 hours per week based at Farnborough. To cover shift patterns between (Apply online only) GMT you may be asked to work at specific times. As part of a commitment to maintaining high service availability and rapid incident response, this role will be required to participate in an on-call rota. This responsibility reflects the trust placed in the role to act swiftly and decisively when critical systems are impacted.
At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK
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Location:
Farnborough, Hampshire
Salary:
£750 - £800 /day
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT

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