Contract Network Engineer in Oxford
Posted by Intec Select Ltd
£450 – £550 a day
Oxford · Permanent
Overview:
We are currently searching for an experienced Network & Systems Engineer to join a leading technology organisation on a hybrid basis in Oxford. The role will focus primarily on enterprise networking across campus, data centre and multi-cloud environments, while also providing broader systems administration support when required.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Support and maintain enterprise LAN/WLAN, routing, switching, VLANs, VPNs, DNS, DHCP and IPAM environments.
- Manage and troubleshoot firewalls, cloud networking and connectivity across AWS and GCP.
- Monitor network performance and availability, taking ownership of incidents through to resolution.
- Support systems administration tasks including account provisioning, server patching, storage and backup troubleshooting.
- Maintain network security through configuration reviews, policy enforcement and best practice.
- Support network design reviews and the transition of new infrastructure into production.
- Maintain technical documentation, network diagrams, SOPs and operational runbooks.
- 5+ years’ experience within enterprise network operations and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience with LAN/WLAN, routing, switching, VLANs, DNS and DHCP.
- Knowledge of networking protocols including BGP, VRRP/HSRP, TCP/UDP and LACP.
- Strong troubleshooting skills, including packet capture and network diagnostic tools.
- Experience with AWS and/or GCP networking.
- Experience with Arista EOS / CloudVision or similar networking platforms would be highly advantageous.
- Knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls, 802.1x, RADIUS and Zero Trust environments would be beneficial.
- Exposure to Terraform, Ansible, Git, LogicMonitor, Grafana or Prometheus would be advantageous.
- Experience with AWS Direct Connect or GCP Interconnect would be beneficial.
- Comfortable providing wider Windows/Linux systems administration support when required.
- £450 - £550 Per Day
- 6 Months (Likely Extensions)
- Oxford (Hybrid)
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