Lead Network Engineer

JR United Kingdom; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to lead the charge in transforming their network infrastructure. This role is pivotal in managing both cloud and on-premises setups, ensuring high availability and security through Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in BGP, cloud providers, and enterprise-level system design. If you're ready to tackle legacy systems while embracing modern technologies, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience with legacy infrastructure and migration to modern systems.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and observability.

Responsibilities

• Manage hosting environments ensuring high availability and security.
• Design and implement network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.

Skills

BGP

Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

IPSEC

DHCP

DNS

Juniper Switches & Routers

Load Balancing (HAProxy, F5, A10, Kemp)

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Network Engineer

Are you an experienced Network Engineer with a diverse infrastructure background? We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer to establish a Technical Operations-first approach to both cloud and on-premises setups.

The Network Engineer will be responsible for managing hosting environments, ensuring observability, high availability, information security with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This is a senior role requiring experience with multiple simultaneous projects, including legacy infrastructure and migration to modern systems. Expertise with Palo Alto firewalls is essential.

The ideal candidate will join a multi-cloud and on-premise environment, involved in the design, implementation, and ongoing management of the hosting infrastructure.

The main objectives include embracing observability, high availability, security, and IaC, supporting system and network infrastructure such as switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, compute resources, storage, and virtualization.

Technical Expertise – Must Haves

1. Strong understanding of BGP, with experience in designing, deploying, and troubleshooting
2. Enterprise-level system and network design experience
3. Experience working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
4. Knowledge of IPSEC, DHCP, DNS
5. Strong experience with Juniper switches & routers (Cisco experience is also acceptable)
6. Experience with VXLAN and EVPN
7. Load balancing experience (HAProxy preferred, F5, A10, Kemp are acceptable alternatives)