Senior Network Engineer

What we offer including our broad range of benefits and working environment

When you join Clifford Chance, you will have access to a broad range of benefits to support you across many aspects of your personal and professional life including financial, wellbeing, lifestyle, and family friendly benefits. For more information on what we offer specifically in Newcastle, please visit our What We Offer page on our career site.

The Senior Network Engineer is a technical expert responsible for the design, implementation and support of enterprise‑scale network infrastructure, ensuring secure, stable and scalable services across the organisation.

You will work within the Networks Engineering team as part of Global IT Operations, collaborating with Network Operations, Infrastructure Services and stakeholders across regions.

The Network Engineer is responsible for ensuring that defined network and security standards are consistently implemented and maintained across the organisation.

The role contributes to technical design and implementation activities to ensure the reliable, secure, and efficient operation of the network infrastructure throughout its full lifecycle.

In addition, Network Engineers provide technical support to the offshore Network Operations. The role acts as a technical escalation point for the offshore team, particularly during critical or high‑severity incidents.

• Ensure network and security standards are implemented and adhered to across all environments.
• Deliver technical design, implementation, and lifecycle management of network infrastructure.
• Maintain the stability, performance, and security of the enterprise network.
• Act as the escalation point for complex and critical network/security incidents.
• Support incident response.
• Drive continuous improvement of network operations, security posture, and operational processes.
• Participate in the on‑call rota for out‑of‑hours and weekend support (1 in
  3).

Services within remit include, but are not limited to: routing & switching, LAN&WAN, ISE, Wireless, Load Balancing, NGFW, SASE, DNS, ZTNA.

Clifford Chance has a key vision on automation. Capability in this area throughout the full network technology stack is highly desired. As this is a key growth area, an engineer with this skillset would have a high level of influence to help guide, own and mature this capability with the potential for wider influence in the automation space across the department.

Design & Engineering

• Define and enforce standards ensuring that they are always implemented and adhered to throughout the global infrastructure.
• Ownership of design and delivery of Network and Network Security projects.
• Produce technical level documentation (HLD, LLD, KBs).
• Identify and correct non‑compliance issues.
• Help shape the strategic direction for Network and network security services.
• Help maintain a delivery roadmap for all Network and network security products, with at least a rolling 2‑year outlook.
• Support managing the Technology Lifecycle Management for all Network products, reviewing on a bi‑annual basis to ensure it remains up to date.
• Support investment planning; including business case, budget preparation and timeline determination.
• Produce accurate bills of materials to support the technical designs including hardware, software and licensing.

How we will support you

From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and develop your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring through to skills‑based and technical training and on the job learning.

Your career experience so far

• You will have at least 10 years' experience of network and network security within a global enterprise scale organization (5000‑50,000 users), with at least 2‑3 years working as an engineer in a similar role.
• You will have considerable first‑hand experience of defining standards and creating designs, as well as implementing technical solutions to meet the business requirements.
• You will be experienced with providing technical support in a pressurized…