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Principal Network Engineer
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Principal Network Engineer
Role: Principal Network Engineer
Sector: Payments / Fintech Infrastructure
Client: Global Payments Platform
Compensation: Competitive base + bonus + strong benefits
Model: Fully Remote (UK & Ireland only)
Role Overview:
We're hiring on behalf of a fast-growing, well-funded global payments platform for a Principal Network Engineer to join their Technical Operations organization as a senior individual contributor with little to no line management. You'll take ownership of the design, implementation, and ongoing stewardship of a hybrid multi-cloud and on-prem environment supporting a merchant-first payments ecosystem processing millions in transaction volume annually. This is a backfill on an existing team spread across North America and the UK/Ireland, with genuine end-to-end ownership from day one with small teams, big things, no needless process.
What You'll Do:
- Own Palo Alto firewall design and deployment end-to-end, from architecture through implementation and ongoing management via Panorama
- Contribute directly to the Terraform/Ansible infrastructure as code codebase, not just operate what's already built
- Lead architecture and design discussions and POCs/POVs across switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, compute, storage, and virtualization
- Provide senior technical leadership on design and standards, including training and mentoring across the wider engineering team
- Support and help migrate legacy infrastructure onto modern, codified platforms alongside TechOps, DevOps, and InfoSec peers
- Own disaster recovery planning, capacity management, and high-priority incident/change/problem management for the network estate
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What We're Looking For:
- 10+ years of enterprise-level network/systems design and support, including 10+ years in cloud environments and 5+ years as a technical lead or architect
- Expert, hands-on, recent Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama experience with genuine design/build depth, not administration of an existing config (PCNSA/PCNSE a strong plus)
- Direct, hands-on contribution to a Terraform/Ansible codebase, with a named project and a quantified outcome
- Expert level Juniper switching and routing (Cisco accepted as a substitute for Juniper); strong VXLAN/EVPN and advanced OSPF/BGP
- A track record skewed toward project and architecture work over reactive day-to-day ops
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What's On Offer:
- Competitive base and bonus and a very strong benefits package
- Fully remote working, UK or Ireland based
- Genuine ownership of a hybrid multi-cloud, on-prem estate from day one, in a business that means what it says about small teams and few processes.
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