Senior Network Engineer

£50,000 - £65,000 DOE

Manchester, M44

Permanent, Hybrid

One of our key clients has an urgent requirement for a Network Engineer to be based at their offices in either Greater Manchester on a permanent basis (Hybrid Working available). This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly growing business who are making a huge impact in their sector.

As Network Engineer you will contribute to the design and implementation of network solutions required by the business, while working to strict deadlines and being flexible to changing business requirements. The role also involves providing 3rd line support for diagnostics and resolution of network incidents, vendor and supplier engagement and mentoring of graduate engineers. This role is a hybrid role with on-call requirements.

This is a great opportunity to manage the delivery of multiple projects at the same time to achieve agreed timescales. You will engage and manage relationships with 3rd parties such as vendors, suppliers, and strategic technical partners.

Relevant Experience: Network Engineer

Essential

Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of L2/L3 routing and switching protocols such as BGP, OSPF, ISIS, STP, Q-in-Q, storm control, etc.
Experience with NMS and metrics collection servers such as LibreNMS, Grafana, SolarWinds, PRTG, etc.

My client is offered a competitive salary with an exceptional benefits package, apply now to explore this opportunity.

Desirable

Minimum 5 years’ operations/build experience working for an ISP.
Minimum 1 year experience in a design/automation role
Experience with passive optical network technologies (GPON/XGS-PON).
Network design workflow experience and HLD/LLD documentation.
Development of QoS-enabled solutions using concepts such as traffic classification, marking, queuing & scheduling, policing, and H-QoS.
Experience with virtualisation concepts and solutions e.g., VMWare ESXi, Proxmox VE server, and Proxmox Backup server, RAID types, etc.
Knowledge of MPLS technologies such as L2/L3 VPNs, RSVP, LDP, etc.
Network automation using Python, Ansible and related libraries.
Familiarity with security solutions e.g., Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls, and IPS/IDS etc.

Employee Benefits:

Generous pension – employer 6%, employee 3%
25 days holiday entitlement, plus the 8 bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday
Discretionary Bonus
Hybrid working/flexible working
BUPA Private Medical Insurance
BUPA Cash Plan and Wellbeing Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Reward and Recognition Gateway
Annual Christmas closure between Christmas and New Year
Bi-annual Company Events