It Solutions Engineer (Networking)

Focus Group; Crawley Down; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance or van

Flexible home-based setup

Clear progression opportunities

Job summary

Focus Group is seeking a networking specialist to lead technical projects for the Operations team. You will design and deliver LAN/WAN refreshes, SD-WAN rollouts, firewall and wireless deployments across Surrey, Kent, Sussex and London, working with Meraki, Aruba, Cisco, SonicWall and Ubiquiti.

You’ll be the escalation point for tricky issues, scope solutions on customer calls, and mentor other engineers while expanding into cloud migrations, server and virtualization support, and security

Qualifications

• Proven experience in IT support, infrastructure or solutions delivery.
• CCNA certification is required or equivalent.
• Expertise in VLANs, routing/switching, firewalls, WAN/SD-WAN and wireless design.
• Familiarity with Meraki, Aruba, Cisco, SonicWall or Ubiquiti.
• Willingness to travel across the UK with a full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver network projects for customers across Surrey/Kent/Sussex and London.
• Lead LAN/WAN refreshes, SD-WAN rollouts, firewall and wireless deployments.
• Act as escalation point for complex issues and mentor engineers.
• Contribute to cloud migrations, server/virtualisation support and security implementations.

Skills

VLANs & WAN

Routing & Switching

Firewalls

SD-WAN

Wireless design

Vendor familiarity

Troubleshooting

Driving licence

Education

CCNA certification

Job description

Home based - Surrey/Kent/Sussex, with regular travel to customer sites including London

(Internal job reference: Specialist / Team Leader)

Focus Group provides essential business technology to around 30,000 customers across the UK. We're looking for a networking specialist to lead technical projects for our Operations team — someone who knows their way around VLANs, firewalls and SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network), and enjoys being the person others turn to when things get complex.

The role

You’ll design and deliver network projects for customers across the Surrey/Kent/Sussex and London — LAN/WAN (Local Area Network/Wide Area Network) refreshes, SD-WAN rollouts, firewall and wireless deployments — working across vendors like Meraki, Aruba, Cisco, SonicWall and Ubiquiti. You’ll be the escalation point for tricky network issues, scope solutions on customer calls, and mentor other engineers along the way. You’ll also get involved in the wider infrastructure picture: cloud migrations, server and virtualisation support, and security implementations.

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience in IT support, infrastructure or solutions delivery
• CCNA certification
• Genuine expertise in networking: VLANs, routing and switching, firewalls, WAN/SD-WAN and wireless design
• Confidence with networking vendors such as Meraki, Aruba, Cisco, SonicWall or Ubiquiti
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and clear communication with non-technical customers
• A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to customer sites

What you’ll get

£40,000 salary, car allowance or van, a genuinely flexible home-based setup, and clear progression into Team Manager, Technical Consultant or Technical Pre-Sales Consultant roles.

If networking is your specialism and you want real variety and real ownership, we’d love to hear from you.

Let’s connect. Let’s grow.