Principal Network Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Chelmsford; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking a highly experienced Network Engineer to support diverse cloud and on-premise infrastructures. The role requires deep expertise in Palo Alto and network design, alongside strong experience in managing legacy systems and modern infrastructure transitions.

Benefits

7% annual bonus

45 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual pay reviews

Certifications allowance per year

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Palo Alto and Prisma.
• Strong understanding of BGP, design, and troubleshooting.
• Enterprise-level system and network design.

Responsibilities

• Support system and network infrastructure with various equipment.
• Establish a Technical Ops first approach for cloud/on-prem setups.
• Ensure high availability and observability of infrastructure.

Skills

Palo Alto

Networking

BGP

Cloud Computing

IPSEC

DHCP

DNS

Juniper Switches

Load Balancing

Virtualization

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