Principal Network Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to manage cloud and on-premise infrastructures, ensuring high availability and robust info-sec through a technical operations approach. This senior role demands extensive experience with Palo Alto, BGP, and multi-cloud environments, along with excellent troubleshooting skills.

Benefits

Flexible remote work

7% annual bonus

45 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual pay reviews

Private healthcare

Annual certifications allowance

Qualifications

• Experience as a Principal Network Engineer or similar roles.
• Expertise in diverse infrastructure especially in Palo Alto and cloud.
• Strong understanding of designing, deploying, and troubleshooting network.

Responsibilities

• Establish a Technical Ops approach to cloud and on-prem setup.
• Ensure observability, high availability, and info-sec for environments.
• Support system and network infrastructure with switches, routers, and more.

Skills

Palo Alto

Prisma

BGP

Cloud Computing

IPSEC

DHCP

DNS

Load Balancing

Juniper

Cisco

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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