Network Engineer

The Opportunity:

We are currently supporting a confidential public sector organisation in the search for an experienced Network Engineer to join their technology function on an initial 6-month contract basis for a major central government project (Government Digital Services / GDS).

This is an excellent opportunity to support and enhance critical network infrastructure within a highly secure, mission-critical environment supporting nationally important services.

The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining network performance, availability and security across complex enterprise environments, while supporting infrastructure modernisation, operational resilience and continuous improvement initiatives.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Support, maintain and optimise enterprise network infrastructure across complex environments
• Monitor network performance, availability and security, proactively identifying and resolving issues
• Troubleshoot network incidents, outages and connectivity issues across multiple environments
• Support infrastructure upgrades, migrations and network improvement projects
• Work closely with infrastructure, security and operational teams to ensure reliable and secure network services
• Assist with network capacity planning, resilience and disaster recovery activities
• Support network security controls and compliance requirements

Configure and support network technologies including:

• Routing
• Switching
• Firewalls
• VPNs
• Wireless networking

Skills and Experience:

• Strong commercial experience operating within enterprise network engineering environments
• Proven experience supporting and troubleshooting complex network infrastructure
• Experience working with enterprise-grade networking equipment and technologies
• Good understanding of network security principles and operational best practice

Desirable Experience:

• Experience within government, healthcare or highly regulated environments
• Exposure to cloud networking technologies within AWS and/or Azure environments
• Familiarity with network monitoring and observability tooling
• Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure environments

Strong understanding of:

• TCP/IP
• DNS
• DHCP
• Routing and switching
• Firewalls
• VPN technologies

Relevant networking certifications advantageous, such as:

• CCNA
• CCNP
• CompTIA Network+
• JNCIA

NB: The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic level of security clearance before undertaking the assignment (around two weeks’ lead-time).

Applications:

Please contact James here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology?