Onsite Network Engineer – Multi-Site Incidents & Projects

OpticoreIT Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

23 days holiday + bank holidays

Private healthcare & dental

Pension

EV car scheme

Cycle-to-work

Team & Company Social events

EMI share scheme

Job summary

OpticoreIT Limited is seeking a Network Engineer for a predominantly on-site role in Manchester with travel to other Northern sites. You will act as the on-site contact for users and local teams, handling incidents from minor to major outages and delivering small regional projects.

The ideal candidate has CCNA-level routing/switching knowledge, incident response discipline, and a willingness to travel across Leeds, Manchester, Preston, and surrounding areas.

Qualifications

• CCNA level or equivalent routing and switching knowledge.
• Experience handling incidents from individual issues to outages.
• Ability to travel across Northern sites and work on-site.
• Own car and full UK driving licence required.
• Comfort working in a distributed multi-site environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide network incident support across severity spectrum, diagnosing and resolving issues.
• Coordinate incident response across teams and drive resolution.
• Resolve service requests with appropriate network access per role.
• Follow change procedures for all access or configuration changes.
• Deliver small in-region projects like stack expansions and capacity upgrades.
• Perform physical rack work: cabling, tracing, moving equipment.
• Serve as on-site interface between northern sites and central networks.
• Cover Leeds and Manchester sites weekly, plus Preston and other locations.
• Engage with existing tooling for day-to-day automation; no coding pipelines.

Skills

Cisco Routing

Core Networking

Incident Response

Change Management

Driving Licence

Site Engineering

Multi-Site Coverage

Network Automation

Tools

Juniper Mist

Palo Alto

Zscaler

Job description

OpticoreIT Limited is seeking a Network Engineer for a predominantly on-site role in Manchester with travel to other Northern sites. You will act as the on-site contact for users and local teams, handling incidents from minor to major outages and delivering small regional projects.

The ideal candidate has CCNA-level routing/switching knowledge, incident response discipline, and a willingness to travel across Leeds, Manchester, Preston, and surrounding areas.