Network Engineer

Bauer Media Outdoor; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in the UK is seeking a Network Engineer to design and manage robust network infrastructures, including enterprise and IoT. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with cloud services like Azure, automation tools such as Python and Ansible, and a passion for performance and reliability. This role includes hybrid working flexibility, allowing you to work from the London office for part of the week.

Benefits

Salary DOE + bonus

33 days holiday

Pension matched up to 8%

Healthcare Cash Plan

Life insurance + income protection

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years in enterprise or carrier-grade network engineering.
• Comfortable across Fortinet, Cisco Meraki, and Azure networking.
• Fluent in routing, switching, VPNs, and network security principles.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and optimise enterprise and IoT network infrastructure.
• Manage Fortinet firewalls and secure VPN connectivity.
• Support 4G/5G network architecture and large SIM estates.

Skills

Enterprise networking

IoT connectivity

Cloud networking

Automation

AI-assisted observability

Education

CCNA, Fortinet NSE, AZ-700, Network+ or similar

Tools

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

At Bauer Media Outdoor, our network doesn't just support an office - it powers 33,000+ digital screens, thousands of IoT devices, edge connections, cloud platforms, and media campaigns seen by millions of people every day across the UK and Europe. We're not just maintaining a network. We're building a smart, resilient, AI‑assisted, secure, and globally distributed digital estate. And we need a Network Engineer who lives for uptime, performance, automation and the thrill of a well‑instrumented network environment.

About the Role

You'll join our Infrastructure & Connectivity squad, working across enterprise networking + IoT + cloud + edge, helping to design, deploy, and evolve the foundations that keep our digital estate alive. This is a role that blends:

• Enterprise networking
• IoT connectivity (including 4G/5G and SIM estate management)
• Cloud networking (Azure, vWAN, ExpressRoute, VNets)
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code
• AI‑assisted network observability
• Zero drama incident response (minimal drama)

What you'll be doing

• Design, deploy and optimise enterprise and IoT network infrastructure
• Manage Fortinet firewalls, Cisco Meraki SD‑WAN, and secure VPN connectivity
• Support 4G/5G network architecture, APNs, IMSI/IMEI tracking, and large SIM estates
• Connect the dots between screens, edge devices, cloud platforms, and data centres

Cloud & Hybrid Networking

• Deliver Azure network services (vWAN, VNets, ExpressRoute, NSGs, VPN Gateways)
• Support hybrid networking across public cloud, on‑prem, and edge environments

Automation, AI & Modern Ops

• Automate provisioning and configuration using Python, REST APIs, Terraform or Ansible
• Explore AIOps and AI‑driven observability, predictive alerts, and proactive remediation
• Instrument monitoring via DNA Center, Zabbix, SolarWinds, NetFlow, SNMP, Syslog

Agile Execution

• Operate in sprint‑based mini squads using Jira and Confluence
• Build with documentation, version control, repeatability, and shared ownership in mind

You're the right fit if you tick most of these

• 3‑5+ years in enterprise or carrier‑grade network engineering
• Comfortable across Fortinet, Cisco Meraki, and Azure networking
• Worked with 4G/5G, SIM management, IoT gateways, or distributed device estates
• Fluent in routing, switching, VPNs, firewalls, and network security principles
• Experienced with automation (Python, Ansible, Terraform, APIs)
• Obsessed with observability, performance, and uptime
• Curious about AI‑enabled network ops, automation, and continuous improvement
• Calm, structured, and logical when things get… interesting
• Great at explaining complex engineering without sounding like a thesaurus exploded

Nice‑to‑haves (not dealbreakers)

• CCNA, Fortinet NSE, AZ‑700, Network+ or similar
• Exposure to AIOps, AI MCP, or predictive network automation
• IoT protocol experience (MQTT, CoAP, AMQP)
• Experience with Grafana, InfluxDB, or Power BI for network insight

Make a real impact

Your work will literally shape what millions of people see in the real world. Build something from the ground up. Define the tech, the tooling, the standards and the roadmap. Engineering meets creativity where marketing imagination meets real‑world technical execution. Hybrid, flexible, and built for humans – 2–3 days in the London office, autonomy to flex the rest.

Benefits

• Salary DOE + bonus
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Pension matched up to 8%
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Life insurance + income protection
• Cycle to Work
• Travel/season ticket loan
• Discounts with 100s of retailers
• A team that's genuinely brilliant, supportive and uncompromisingly curious

At Bauer Media Outdoor, we are committed to treating everyone with fairness and respect, regardless of their race, gender, age, ethnicity, background, sexual orientation, disability, or any other differences. We work hard to foster an inclusive environment, a place you can be yourself. We support reasonable adjustment requests from candidates and employees. If you're interested in joining us to shape the future of out‑of‑home media, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Culture

At Bauer Media Outdoor, we don't want you to blend in. We want you to bring you. Shape us. We move fast, question assumptions, and build things that work in the real world. We're big enough to matter, small enough to move, and curious enough to invent.