Network Engineer BACLJP00013360

Huxley; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 23,985,000 - 27,675,000; Full time

Job summary

Huxley is recruiting a Network Support Engineer for a 12-month contract based in Chester with hybrid onsite work. You will join the network team to support enterprise infrastructure and telemetry workflows.

The role requires hands-on experience with Splunk data ingestion and network telemetry sources, including SNMP, syslog, and telemetry streams, across routing, switching, wireless, and SD-WAN. This position is inside IR35 and sponsorship cannot be provided.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of enterprise network infrastructure (routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN).
• Hands-on experience with network telemetry and data ingestion.
• Experience with SNMP, syslog, telemetry streams, APIs, and device metrics.

Responsibilities

• Collect, normalize, and onboard network device telemetry and instrumentation data (metrics, logs, events, streams) into Splunk and approved analytics platforms.
• Work with Network Engineering teams to understand device behaviors, health indicators, and performance signals across routing, switching, wireless, and SD-WAN platforms.

Skills

Networking concepts

SD-WAN

Telemetry data

Tools

Splunk

Job description

Network Support Engineer

12 Month Contract

Chester Hybrid

£550 p/d inside IR35

Client within the financial services industry is currently seeking for a Networks support engineer to join the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Collect, normalize, and onboard network device telemetry and instrumentation data (metrics, logs, events, streams) into Splunk and approved analytics platforms.
• Work with Network Engineering teams to understand device behaviors, health indicators, and performance signals across routing, switching, wireless, and SD-WAN platforms.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of enterprise network infrastructure (routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN).
• Hands-on experience with Splunk for data ingestion, searches, dashboards, and alerts.
• Experience working with network telemetry sources such as SNMP, syslog, telemetry streams, APIs, and device metrics.

Please note this role requires 3 days onsite and sponsorship cannot be provided.

Huxley, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales