Senior IT Network Engineer
On-siteManchester, England, United Kingdom
Manchester, England, United KingdomOn-siteFull TimeSenior LevelLarge
Full TimeSenior LevelLarge
Job Summary
Own the corporate network across all sites, managing switching, routing, wireless, firewalls, VPN, and inter-site connectivity. Manage network performance for high-throughput workloads including large Perforce syncs, build artefact movement, and GPU workstation traffic. Design and maintain network segmentation and zero-trust access in partnership with Security, while leading monitoring, capacity planning, and documentation. Manage vendors and circuits for ISPs and network hardware, providing cross-coverage of the wider corporate IT estate and participating in an on-call rota for critical incidents.
Required Qualifications
- deep, expert-level network engineering experience: enterprise switching and routing, BGP and OSPF, firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Aruba, Junos, Arista or similar), wireless, and VPN
- CCNP-calibre as an illustration
- experience designing and securing multi-site networks, ideally moving high volumes of data between locations
- genuine full-stack baseline across Windows systems, identity and access, cloud, and endpoint
- calm and methodical under pressure during outages, with strong root-cause discipline
Desired Qualifications
- network automation and infrastructure as code (Python, Ansible, Terraform or similar)
- cloud networking exposure across GCP, Azure, or AWS
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