Global Network Engineer - SD-WAN & Security Lead (Hybrid)

Rentokil Initial Group

Crawley

Hybrid

GBP 70,000 - 110,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme

23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

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Job summary

Rentokil Initial Group in the United Kingdom is hiring a Network Engineer (EMEA & APAC) to maintain, optimize, and secure enterprise network infrastructure across regional data centers and branch offices. You will balance NetOps incident resolution with project delivery, including SD-WAN migrations and SASE rollouts.

The role requires hands-on experience with Cisco/Aruba gear, SD-WAN, cloud security, and ITIL-aligned processes.

Qualifications

Demonstrated regional NetOps or Network Engineering experience.
Knowledge of enterprise IT governance, compliance and ITIL frameworks.
CCNA/Network+ or ASCA preferred; ITIL Foundation beneficial.

Responsibilities

Serve as primary technical escalation point for L1 NOC, diagnosing performance bottlenecks and outages to maintain high availability.
Lead remote staging, configuration and provisioning of branch networking hardware; provide remote leadership during rack-and-stack, cabling and patching.
Implement network designs and SD-WAN/SASE rollouts per Global Network Architecture guidance and enterprise rollouts.
Perform lifecycle patching, firmware updates and vulnerability remediation; conduct audits to ensure security baselines compliance.
Monitor telemetry and health to prevent performance degradation and plan capacity.