Global Network Engineer: Data Center & Cloud Connectivity

CGG Services (UK) Limited; Bolney; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus scheme

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Viridien seeks a Network Engineer to support operation, reliability, and continuous improvement of its global enterprise and data centre network infrastructure. Based within the Network Operations team at the UK HPC Hub, this role covers enterprise, data centre, cloud-connected, security, and SD-WAN environments.

You will contribute to operational support, infrastructure projects, and lifecycle activities while helping improve resilience, performance and security of Viridien's network.

Qualifications

• Approximately 3–5 years' experience supporting enterprise, datacentre, cloud-connected or service provider network environments.
• Hands-on experience configuring, supporting and troubleshooting production network infrastructure.
• Good understanding of routing, switching, WAN, firewall and network security fundamentals.
• Practical knowledge of technologies such as BGP, OSPF, VLANs, QoS, VPNs and TCP/IP.
• Experience using monitoring, alerting or operational management platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a collaborative technical team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain and troubleshoot enterprise network infrastructure across WAN, LAN, wireless, datacentre, cloud-connected and security environments.
• Deploy, configure and monitor routing, switching, firewall and network security platforms.
• Investigate network incidents, contribute to root cause analysis and support preventative improvement actions.
• Monitor network availability, performance, health and capacity across critical services.
• Participate in infrastructure projects, hardware refreshes, migrations and service improvement initiatives.
• Work with senior engineers to implement network enhancements and introduce new technologies.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, diagrams, standards and operational procedures.
• Support network security, resilience, compliance and lifecycle management activities.
• Collaborate with vendors, service providers and internal stakeholders to support operational and project requirements.
• Participate in an on-call support rota and occasional out-of-hours maintenance activities.

Skills

Routing & Switching

WAN & Firewall

Network security fundamentals

BGP & OSPF

TCP/IP

Monitoring/Observability

Scripting/Automation

CCNA/CCNP

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

VXLAN/EVPN

Telemetry platforms

Cisco/Arista/Dell/Juniper gear

Job description

Viridien seeks a Network Engineer to support operation, reliability, and continuous improvement of its global enterprise and data centre network infrastructure. Based within the Network Operations team at the UK HPC Hub, this role covers enterprise, data centre, cloud-connected, security, and SD-WAN environments.

You will contribute to operational support, infrastructure projects, and lifecycle activities while helping improve resilience, performance and security of Viridien's network.