Network Engineer

SF Partners; Frankley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary

Mileage allowance

Pension

Bonus

Healthcare

Training budget

Holidays

Tech exposure

Job summary

SF Partners in South Birmingham is seeking a Network Engineer with strong enterprise networking, routing & switching, Cisco and NVIDIA Mellanox experience to join a high growth technology organisation.

You will own design, implementation, configuration and support of complex network infrastructure, travel to customer sites, and engage in secure, air-gapped environments while delivering high‑performance solutions and ensuring robust diagnostics.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineer with enterprise networking experience.
• Own design, implementation, configuration and support of complex network infra.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites and hold UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Own design, implementation, configuration and support of enterprise network infra.
• Attend customer sites to deliver installations, upgrades and health checks.
• Work within secure or air-gapped environments and troubleshoot across routing/switching.

Skills

Enterprise networking

BGP/OSPF/VLANs

QoS/IPv4-IPv6

EVPN/VXLAN

Leaf-Spine

Troubleshooting

Secure environments

Customer communication

Tools

NVIDIA Mellanox

Cisco

Job description

Network Engineer

South Birmingham

Network Engineer with key skills in enterprise networking, routing & switching, Cisco and NVIDIA Mellanox is sought by a high growth technology organisation based in South Birmingham.

Working within national infrastructure, this Network Engineer will join a close-knit technical team delivering secure, high-performance networking solutions across business-critical and highly secure environments.

This is a hands‑on engineering role where the Network Engineer will take ownership of the design, implementation, configuration and support of complex enterprise network infrastructure, alongside attending customer sites to deliver installations, upgrades, network audits and technical health checks.

This role would suit an experienced Network Engineer with a strong background in enterprise networking who enjoys solving complex technical problems and is comfortable combining hands‑on engineering with customer engagement.

In return, this Network Engineer can expect a dynamic, engaging and technically challenging environment with excellent progression opportunities and the autonomy to take ownership of complex networking projects using modern data centre technologies.

Due to the sensitive nature of the work, eligibility for MOD DV/STRAP clearance is essential, alongside a full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to customer sites.

Key Skills

• Strong enterprise networking experience across routing & switching
• knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRRP/HSRP and Spanning Tree
• Strong understanding of QoS, Multicast, IPv4/IPv6 and High Availability networking
• Experience with switching platforms
• Modern data centre networking exposure including EVPN, VXLAN, MLAG and Leaf‑Spine architectures
• Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills across routing, switching, firewalls and connectivity
• Experience working within secure or air-gapped environments
• Strong customer‑facing communication skills with the ability to take ownership of technical projects

Benefits

• Generous starting salary
• Mileage allowance for customer site travel
• Excellent progression opportunities
• Generous private pension scheme
• Bonus scheme
• Private healthcare
• Training budget & time allocation
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Exposure to cutting‑edge networking and data centre technologies

Network Engineer

South Birmingham

Network Engineer, Cisco, CCNP, CCIE, Routing, Switching, BGP, OSPF, VLAN, VRRP, HSRP, Spanning Tree, QoS, Multicast, IPv4, IPv6, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Firepower, FTD, NVIDIA, Mellanox, Cumulus Linux, EVPN, VXLAN, MLAG, Leaf‑Spine, Ansible, Linux, VMware, Network Automation, DV, STRAP