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Network Engineer

Job type:Perm
Town/City:Bracknell
County:Berkshire
Salary/Rate:£55000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + + Bonus
Business Sector:IT
Job ref:BBBH152653
Post Date:April 15, 2025

Job Description:

£55,000 - £60,000 per annum

Network Engineer

Opportunity to gain SC Clearance

Location: Onsite in Bracknell

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As a DJSC 3rd Line Senior Network Engineer you will contribute to this by joining a multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary team working collaboratively across multiple services within a shared Environment.

Your role will involve:

Providing operational support to a large enterprise network that runs 24/7 across two data centres and remote offices throughout the UK. You will collaborate with the rest of the team to maintain on premise networks to support BAU activities, perform network configuration changes, upgrades and liaise with third parties and other internal teams as well as our end customer. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in project-based work, as you will be working closely with the project delivery team. Additionally, you will provide technical direction and mentoring to the 2nd line network team.

Your transferable skills and experience:

  • Solid understanding and working knowledge of core routing and switching at CCNA/CCNP level
  • Hands-on experiencing in troubleshooting enterprise networks
  • Solid understanding of IP routing (BGP, OSPF, static routing, HSRP, VRF, tunneling protocols)
  • Solid understanding of Layer 2 technologies (VLANs, port-security, 802.1X, spanning-tree)
  • Experience with firewalls - Cisco Firepower, Cisco ASA and related features (ASDM, ACLs, IPSEC VPNs)
  • Experience working with Cisco Catalyst switches, Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco ISR and ASR routers, and Cisco ISE
  • Understanding of network-level encryption
  • Strong experience with Juniper leaves spines and switches
  • F5 Load Balancers
  • Cisco ISE Appliance
  • Catapans

Company Benefits:

  • 25 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)
  • Pension - Double matching contributions of up to 10%
  • Life assurance
  • Companywide incentive plans
  • Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)
  • Perks at work - employee discounts
  • Employee assistance programme / virtual GP