Principal Network Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Basildon; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a highly experienced Senior Network Engineer. The candidate will oversee diverse infrastructures, ensuring high-availability, security, and effective cloud operations while working on exciting projects. This role values expertise in Palo Alto firewalls, BGP, and enterprise-level designs, offering a competitive salary, bonus, and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

7% annual bonus

45 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Annual Pay Reviews

Certifications allowance per year

Qualifications

• Experience with legacy infrastructure and migration.
• Expertise in observed setups and info-sec.
• Experience in mergers & acquisitions is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage hosting environments and observability.
• Support system and network infrastructure.
• Work remotely and flexibly on multiple projects.

Skills

Palo Alto

BGP

Cloud computing

IPSEC

DHCP

DNS

Juniper switches

Load balancing

HAProxy

Job description

Are you a highly experienced Network Engineer who’s got experience in a diverse infrastructure? We’re looking for a Network Engineer to establish a Technical Ops first approach to a cloud and on-prem setup.

The Network Engineer will be responsible for hosting environments and the observability, highly available info-sec with IaC. This is a Senior role so looking for an experienced Network Engineer that has worked on multiple simultaneous projects, including legacy infrastructure and migration to modern infrastructure.

This role requires expertise in Palo Alto, Next Gen Firewalls and Prisma.

The main purpose of the environments will be embracing observability, high-availability and infosec, along with IaC. You’ll be making sure that you support the system and network infrastructure with switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, compute, storage and virtualization. If you have ever worked in a mergers & acquisition setting this would be highly advantageous

Technical Expertise – must haves

• Strong Palo Alto portfolio experience with Prisma
• Strong understanding of BGP and in the field experience designing, deploying & troubleshooting
• Enterprise level system and network design experience
• Experience working in cloud (we use multi-vendor so experience with any AWS, GCP or Azure)
• IPSEC. DHCP, DNS
• Strong experience with Juniper switches & routers (Cisco also considered)
• VXLAN and EVPN Must have load balancing experience
• HAProxy experience is a strong plus, however F5, A10, Kemp, etc are suitable alternates
• Work remotely and flexibly
• 7% annual bonus
• 45 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
• Annual Pay Reviews
• Certifications allowance per year

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Created on 26/06/2025 by JR United Kingdom