Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.
Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.
We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:
1. interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
2. Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
3. Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About the Department
Our Technology function provides the secure, reliable and scalable platforms that keep Aberdeen connected to our clients, markets and one another. The network engineering team designs, runs and improves our enterprise network services across our offices, data centres and cloud environments, ensuring that critical applications and data are always available and protected.
Working closely with our Cloud, Security and Platform teams, we focus on strong security, high performance and modern ways of working to support a highly regulated, global investment business. By delivering robust connectivity and secure access, the team plays a key role in enabling our clients to be better investors.
About the Role
As a Senior Network Engineer in our UK Technology function, you will take ownership of the design, operation and optimisation of Aberdeen’s enterprise network across on-premises and Microsoft Azure cloud environments. Based in Edinburgh or London and working in a hybrid model (3 days per week in the office), you will act as a senior escalation point for complex incidents and lead on the delivery of secure, high performing network services, for both BAU and project work.
You will work extensively with technologies such as Checkpoint firewalls (advanced security devices that control network traffic), Cisco enterprise routing and switching, and Azure networking services in the cloud. This senior role is an opportunity to shape our network roadmap, influence security and connectivity standards and work closely with colleagues across Cloud, Security and Platform teams.
This is a permanent position that will give you the scope to deepen your technical expertise, lead on significant change and invest in your tomorrow while helping us to invest for a better future for our clients.
Key Responsibilities
4. Provide 3rd line support for complex network incidents and problems, acting as a senior escalation point to restore stable service across data centres, campuses and branch offices.
5. Design, operate and optimise enterprise network services across on premises and Azure environments, proactively monitoring performance, capacity and availability and driving improvements where required.
6. Administer, optimise and troubleshoot Checkpoint firewalls, including policy management, clustering, VPNs and advanced security features, to maintain a strong and compliant security posture.
7. Engineer and support Cisco LAN and WAN infrastructure, implementing advanced routing (for example OSPF and BGP), resilient switching architectures and quality of service to support business critical traffic.
8. Design and support Azure networking, including virtual networks, network security groups, routing, VPN gateways, ExpressRoute and hybrid cloud connectivity models, working closely with Cloud and Security teams.
9. Lead major incidents and complex change activity, ensuring adherence to change management and audit requirements, maintaining accurate documentation and sharing knowledge with colleagues.
About the Candidate
To be successful in this role you will bring:
10. Strong hands-on experience with Cisco enterprise routing and switching, including protocols such as BGP and OSPF, as well as high availability and quality of service designs.
11. A deep understanding of Azure networking concepts such as virtual networks, ExpressRoute, virtual WAN, Azure Firewall and secure network segmentation in the cloud.
12. Expert knowledge of Checkpoint firewalls (R8x), including policy design, clustering, VPNs and threat prevention, and experience of running them in complex environments.
13. A solid grounding in core network technologies including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, MPLS and SD WAN, along with experience using monitoring and logging tools.
14. Proven ability to operate in complex, regulated environments, taking ownership of major incidents, collaborating across teams and producing clear technical documentation, both on-premises and in cloud network environments.
15. A collaborative approach and an interest in mentoring and supporting colleagues, sharing knowledge and contributing to continuous improvement of network services.
It would also be great if you have:
16. Checkpoint certifications such as CCSA or CCSE
17. Cisco certification at CCNP level
18. Microsoft Azure Network Engineer Associate certification (for example AZ-700) or similar cloud networking accreditation.
19. Experience with additional firewall vendors such as Palo Alto or Fortinet and familiarity with scripting or Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do .
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do.