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Senior Network Engineer – Basildon
Key Points
- £60,000 – £65,000 DOE
- Basildon, Essex – hybrid working, typically around 3 days office / 2 days WFH depending on projects
- Technologies: Fortinet, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASR, BGP, SD-WAN, Meraki
- Role Description: Senior, hands-on position across customer projects and an internal ISP / datacentre environment
About the Client
We’re working with an established Managed Service Provider experiencing continued growth across its network customer base, including large-scale and critical infrastructure environments.
Due to increased project workload, they’re looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join an established networking team, working across complex customer environments alongside their own ISP and datacentre infrastructure.
The Senior Network Engineer Role
This is a genuinely hands-on senior networking role, rather than a position dominated by BAU support tickets.
You’ll take ownership of network installation and migration projects from design through to delivery, alongside contributing to internal datacentre and ISP projects, product R&D and complex technical escalations.
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Current and upcoming work includes large multi-site Fortinet and Cisco Meraki deployments, SD-WAN migrations, datacentre projects and changes associated with the organisation’s infrastructure platform migration. The team has recently taken on projects covering more than 200 sites, so there’s plenty of interesting project work to get involved with.
You’ll also work across the ISP environment, including BGP, peering, transit and edge connectivity, while acting as a senior technical escalation point when particularly complex networking issues arise.
Senior Network Engineer Essential Skills
- Strong senior-level Network Engineering experience, ideally within an MSP, ISP or service-provider environment
- Excellent BGP knowledge including peering, route policy and production troubleshooting
- Cisco routing and switching experience
- Cisco Nexus / NX-OS and datacentre networking
- Cisco ASR / IOS-XE experience
- Fortinet including FortiGate and FortiManager
- Firewalling, NAT, IPSec VPN and SSL VPN
- Strong Layer 2 / Layer 3 networking fundamentals
- VLANs, STP, EIGRP and network redundancy / HA
- Datacentre networking experience
- Strong troubleshooting and customer-facing communication skills
- Full UK driving licence
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Experience with SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ubiquiti UniFi, Sophos XG, Cisco ASA / Firepower, VMware or Hyper-V would also be useful.
The position also forms part of a 24x7 out-of-hours on-call rota, with a separate on-call allowance and paid callout payments in addition to the £60,000 – £65,000 base salary.
To Be Considered
Please either apply through this advert or email me directly via dave.henderson@searchability.com.
For further information please call me on 01244 567 930 / 07833 460 873.
By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.
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Senior Network Engineer, Network Engineer, Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiManager, Cisco, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASR, BGP, EIGRP, SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, ISP, MSP, Datacentre, IPSec, VPN, Basildon, Essex
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