Role Title: Network Engineer Duration: contract to run until 31/12/2025 Location: Based in Barrow 5 days a week f/t –involves rotational out of hours working, anticipating a 16:30 – 23:30 evening shift for 2 weeks, followed by 2 weeks on a standard 7.5 hr day shift – subject to change. Rate: up to £598 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Clearance required: Active Sc clearance is essential and you must be a sole UK citizen Role purpose / summary Inputting into High Level Designs Creating Low Level designs from approved High Level Designs Configuring core infrastructure components e.g. Data Centre Fabric, Access/Distribution Switches, routers, WAN, firewalls, load balancers, Authentication servers, Wifi controllers, management tooling. Performing impact assessments on large or complex networks. Performing testing to pre-determined plans and analyse results. Planning survey's / surveying for cross/site distribution areas ( Fibre ) - checking for cabling power/space (photo's to be taken) Installing new SDA switches in readiness for OOH work for installation/take on and testing of kit, providing ELS and decom/removal of old switches Installation/take on and testing of new SDA kit Key Skills Network Architecture / Architecture (Compute/storage/End User) Working in secure environments Network Design (HLD/LLD) Cisco Networking (Routing/Switching) Data Centre Networking Cisco ACI Firewalls (Palo Alto / Cisco) Authentication (802.1x / Cisco ISE / AD familiarity) Network management Load balancing (Netscaler) Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access) Meraki Wifi Remote access Encryption All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!