Principal Network Engineer

Primis; Basildon; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm seeks a Principal Network Engineer to establish a technical ops-first approach for both cloud and on-premise setups. The ideal candidate will be highly experienced in network engineering, ensuring high availability and security in diverse infrastructures. This role offers a competitive salary of £85,000 plus an annual bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package including flexible working options, extensive holidays, private healthcare, and professional certification allowances.

Benefits

7% annual bonus

45 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Annual Pay Reviews

Private Healthcare

Certifications allowance per year

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud environments like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Multiple simultaneous project management and legacy infrastructure experience.
• Technical operations and infrastructure support expertise.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for hosting environments and observability.
• Support system and network infrastructure including load balancers and firewalls.
• Work in a mergers & acquisitions setting advantageous.

Skills

Palo Alto

BGP

IPSEC

DHCP

DNS

Networking

Load balancing

HaProxy

Juniper

Cloud experience

Job description

Principal Network Engineer

£85,000 plus annual bonus

Remote, UK

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

Benefits Package

Work remotely and flexibly 7% annual bonus 45 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays Annual Pay Reviews Private Healthcare Certifications allowance per year

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Network Engineer, Lead Network Engineer, AWS, Azure, GCP, LDAP, ACL, Juniper, Networking, Palo Alto, Prisma, Panorama