Role Title: Network Engineer
A variety of soft skills and experience may be required for the following role Please ensure you check the overview below carefully.
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 surveys / surveying for cross/site distribution areas ( Fibre ) - checking for cabling power/space (photos 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!