Change Network Engineer
Role Overview
Senior technical role delivering and supporting secure, mission-critical network services in a Government environment.
Work spans network architecture, high-availability infrastructure, security, technical refresh, troubleshooting and service improvement.
The role is customer-facing and requires regular attendance at secure Government sites in Cambridgeshire, potentially up to five days per week; occasional travel to other sites may be required.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Senior technical role delivering and supporting secure, mission-critical network services in a Government environment.
Work spans network architecture, high-availability infrastructure, security, technical refresh, troubleshooting and service improvement.
The role is customer-facing and requires regular attendance at secure Government sites in Cambridgeshire, potentially up to five days per week; occasional travel to other sites may be required.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and deliver network solutions across data centre, campus and wide-area environments.
- Create and assure high- and low-level designs, implementation documentation and work instructions.
- Lead engineering across requirements, design, implementation, testing, acceptance and operational support.
- Resolve complex incidents, support technical refreshes, improve services and evaluate new technologies.
- Work with customers and delivery teams, verify solutions, communicate technical information and mentor junior engineers.
Technical experience and requirements
- Extensive network engineering experience and strong enterprise and data centre knowledge.
- Strong Layer 2/Layer 3 networking, routing, switching and network design experience, including static and dynamic routing.
- Experience with high availability, network resilience, redundancy, fault tolerance, spine-leaf architecture and large-scale infrastructure refresh.
- Experience with network security technologies including Cisco, Fortinet FortiGate/FortiSwitch, Palo Alto Networks, Juniper SRX or VMware NSX; segmentation and encryption.
- Experience supporting Windows Server and Linux/RHEL data centre workloads; knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Group Policy.
- Experience with SAN/storage-connected and virtualised data centre environments and network monitoring such as SolarWinds or comparable platforms.
- DV clearance is required, or the ability to obtain and maintain it. Defence, Government or other highly secure environment experience is desirable.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation and collaborative skills; able to take ownership at senior engineer or technical lead level.
Benefits
- Package includes contributory pension, private medical insurance, 33 days of annual leave including public and privilege holidays, flexible benefits and flexi-time.
- The employer describes a collaborative culture, career development opportunities and support for work-life balance.
Pay range
- Advertised pay range is £44,700 to £57,300; the posting does not state a pay cadence.
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