Senior Network Engineer

• Basildon, Essex - hybrid working, typically around 3 days office / 2 days WFH depending on projects
• Senior, hands-on position across customer projects and an internal ISP / data centre environment

We're working with an established Managed Service Provider experiencing continued growth across its network customer base, including large-scale and critical infrastructure environments.

Due to increased project workload, they're looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join an established networking team, working across complex customer environments alongside their own ISP and data centre infrastructure.

This is a genuinely hands-on senior networking role, rather than a position dominated by BAU support tickets.

You'll take ownership of network installation and migration projects from design through to delivery, alongside contributing to internal data centre and ISP projects, product R&D and complex technical escalations.

Current and upcoming work includes large multi-site Fortinet and Cisco Meraki deployments, SD-WAN migrations, data centre projects and changes associated with the organisation's infrastructure platform migration. The team has recently taken on projects covering more than 200 sites, so there's plenty of interesting project work to get involved with.

You'll also work across the ISP environment, including BGP, peering, transit and edge connectivity, while acting as a senior technical escalation point when particularly complex networking issues arise.

• Strong senior-level Network Engineering experience, ideally within an MSP, ISP or service-provider environment
• Excellent BGP knowledge including peering, route policy and production troubleshooting
• Cisco routing and switching experience
• Cisco Nexus / NX-OS and data centre networking
• Fortinet including Forti Gate and Forti Manager
• Firewalling, NAT, IPSec VPN and SSL VPN
• VLANs, STP, EIGRP and network redundancy / HA
• Strong troubleshooting and customer-facing communication skills
• Full UK driving licence
• Experience with SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ubiquiti Uni Fi, Sophos XG, Cisco ASA / Firepower, VMware or Hyper-V would also be useful.

The position also forms part of a 24x7 out-of-hours on-call rota, with a separate on-call allowance and paid callout payments in addition to the £60,000 - £65,000 base salary.

Senior Network Engineer, Network Engineer, Fortinet, Forti Gate, Forti Manager, Cisco, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASR, BGP, EIGRP, SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, ISP, MSP, Data centre, IPSec, VPN, Basildon, Essex