Global Network Engineer (Hybrid) – SD-WAN & Cloud Security

Rentokil Pest Control South Africa; Dudley; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme

23 days holiday

8 bank holidays

Job summary

Rentokil Initial is seeking a Network Engineer (EMEA & APAC) to maintain, optimize, and secure enterprise networking across regional data centers and branch offices. You will balance NetOps incident resolution with project delivery, including SD-WAN migrations and Cloud Security rollouts.

The role covers remote leadership, network security, and capacity planning, with a hybrid working model and global collaboration across time zones.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in a regional NetOps or Network Engineering role.
• Strong working knowledge of IT governance, compliance, and ITIL frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Incident Resolution & Tier-2/3 escalation as primary technical point.
• Infrastructure deployment & remote branch engineering leadership.
• Project engineering & cloud migrations including SD-WAN & SASE.
• Network security & compliance: patching, firmware updates, vulnerability remediation.
• Proactive maintenance & capacity planning with telemetry monitoring.

Skills

Autonomous execution

Systems thinking

Cross-cultural collaboration

Structured planning

Tools

Cisco ASA

Cloudflare SASE

Zero Trust

VMware NSX

Job description

Rentokil Initial is seeking a Network Engineer (EMEA & APAC) to maintain, optimize, and secure enterprise networking across regional data centers and branch offices. You will balance NetOps incident resolution with project delivery, including SD-WAN migrations and Cloud Security rollouts.

The role covers remote leadership, network security, and capacity planning, with a hybrid working model and global collaboration across time zones.