Network Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong enterprise networking experience across routing and switching
• Knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRRP/HSRP and Spanning Tree
• Strong understanding of QoS, Multicast, IPv4/IPv6 and high availability networking
• Experience with switching platforms
• Modern data centre networking exposure including EVPN, VXLAN, MLAG and leaf-spine architectures
• Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills across routing, switching, firewalls and connectivity
• Experience working within secure or air-gapped environments
• Strong customer-facing communication skills with the ability to take ownership of technical projects
• Eligibility for MOD DV/STRAP clearance
• Full UK driving licence
• Willingness to travel to customer sites

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the design, implementation, configuration and support of complex enterprise network infrastructure
• Attend customer sites to deliver installations, upgrades, network audits and technical health checks
• Deliver secure, high-performance networking solutions across business-critical and highly secure environments
• Work within national infrastructure as part of a close-knit technical team
• Combine hands-on engineering with customer engagement
• Solve complex technical problems and support technical projects end to end

Technologies:

• Support
• Network
• Ansible
• Cisco
• Linux
• VMware

More:

We are a high-growth technology organisation based in South Birmingham, working within national infrastructure to deliver secure, high-performance networking solutions. You will join a close-knit technical team in a hands-on, technically challenging environment with excellent progression opportunities, autonomy, and exposure to modern data centre technologies. We also offer a generous starting salary, mileage allowance for customer site travel, a private pension scheme, bonus scheme, private healthcare, training budget and time allocation, and 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.

last updated 32 week of 2026