Job
Network Engineer
Network Engineer
+6 months +
+Inside IR35
+£475 - £515 a day
+SC / DV cleared role
+Sole British national only - due to nature of the project
Skills:
+Palo Alto
+Cryptographic technologies
+SC / DV clearance
We are seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join a specialist team supporting the operation, maintenance and continued development of a highly secure defence network environment.
This is a technically challenging role requiring strong networking and firewall expertise, with responsibility for maintaining network availability, delivering architectural changes and supporting secure, mission-critical services.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain a complex secure network environment, including gateways and cross-connects to international networks.
- Monitor network performance, identify outages proactively and ensure SLAs are maintained.
- Design and implement network and architectural changes in line with project and service requirements.
- Provide technical consultation to delivery teams and senior stakeholders.
- Work with defence stakeholders and international partners to design, coordinate and deliver network initiatives.
- Manage network perimeter security, internet-facing security policies and deployed network assets.
- Support software-defined networking and inter-enclave firewalling.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of service provider and data centre network solutions.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation using tools such as Confluence.
- Support the configuration and management of secure networking and cryptographic technologies.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Extensive professional Network Engineering experience.
- CCNP or equivalent networking experience.
- Palo Alto Experience
- Strong firewalling experience, ideally PCNSE or equivalent.
- Strong experience across multi-vendor networking technologies.
- Proven experience in network design and project delivery.
- Experience with service provider and data centre networking.
- Experience working with high-grade encryption / cryptographic technologies.
- Experience operating within secure defence or government environments.
- Ability to present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Network Engineer to work on a technically complex, high-assurance network environment within the defence sector.
If you'd like to discuss this role in more detail, please send your updated CV to chloe.manerowski@cbsbutler.com and we will get in touch.
