Network Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Network Engineer to drive the reliability, performance, resilience and security of our network and network security infrastructure.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Owning the operational performance, stability, availability and security posture of network and network security platforms end to end

Enhancing observability across telemetry, alerting and performance monitoring using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and ThousandEyes to enable proactive operations

Implementing and maintaining scalable, resilient datacentre network infrastructure built on Cisco and Arista technologies

Championing automation of operational tasks using Python, Ansible, Jinja2 and Git

Supporting and extending Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices for network provisioning

Owning break/fix and incident response for complex enterprise and campus network issues

Driving incident management practices, including on-call rotation, escalation procedures, postmortems and root-cause analysis

Implementing and managing WAN CEs, with knowledge of MPLS or Segment Routing

The ideal candidate will have the following experience:

Strong background as a Network Engineer in enterprise or large-scale environments

Experience applying SRE, observability and automation principles to networking, using technologies such as Python, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Ansible and Jenkins

Experience with Cisco and Arista switching and routing, alongside network security infrastructure, including firewalls, IDS/IPS and network segmentation

Expertise in Cisco and Arista platforms, including IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS and EOS

In-depth understanding and hands-on experience with BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN and MPLS

Experience with network monitoring tools and predictive analysis systems

Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus

Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business ) and dedicated barista bar

30 days' annual leave

9% company pension contributions

Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance

Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

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