Consultant Engineer
On-siteBellshill, Scotland, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Design and deliver enterprise network solutions across routing, switching, firewall, and wireless technologies, emphasizing project implementation over BAU administration. Produce low-level designs, implementation plans, and migration documentation to support delivery, while deploying, configuring, and optimizing infrastructure using Cisco networking expertise at CCNP/CCIE level. Troubleshoot complex technical issues during project phases and validate designs through hands-on build, proof-of-concept, and lab testing. Collaborate with project managers, security teams, and customer stakeholders to align solutions with design principles and governance requirements. Prepare and execute changes within controlled environments, maintaining accurate technical documentation including configuration baselines and network diagrams.
Required Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to lead technical projects from design stage through to implementation
- Take ownership of the solution end to end
- Strong enterprise networking background
- Hands-on experience in project delivery, implementation, and design
- Strong understanding of modern data centre and campus network design patterns
- Ability to produce detailed technical and low-level design documentation to a high standard
- Experience of delivering technical solutions in structured and governed environments
- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills across complex network environments
- Comfortable working directly with customers, including large enterprise or blue-chip organisations
Desired Qualifications
- Cisco networking expertise to CCNP/CCIE level
- Experience with Palo Alto firewalls and centralised management through Panorama
- Experience in regulated or critical infrastructure sectors such as energy, utilities, oil and gas, defence, or OT environments
- Cisco ISR and ASR Routers
- Datacentre technologies, Cisco Nexus, VXLAN, VPC's & End User Compute
- Campus Switching Catalyst 9XXX series switches, Stackwise virtual
- IPSec VPN's & Cisco SDWAN
- Cisco Secure firewall / FTD
- SASE solutions, Palo Alto Prisma Access, Cisco Secure Connect
- Cisco Wireless – WLC's (C9800 series)
- Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
- Experiences with Azure and AWS cloud environments
- Cisco Meraki Wireless, Security and Switching technologies
- Cisco ACI - Application Centric Infrastructure
- HP and Aruba Platforms
- DevNet Principles, Automation, Ansible, Python
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