Principal Network Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Watford; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to oversee network management with a focus on cloud and on-premises environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in network design and infrastructure, utilizing technologies such as Palo Alto firewalls and various cloud platforms. This role offers the opportunity to contribute significantly to system operations and security.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Palo Alto portfolio, especially Prisma.
• Solid understanding of BGP, including designing and troubleshooting.
• Enterprise-level system and network design experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage hosting environments ensuring high availability and info-sec.
• Support system and network infrastructure across various technologies.
• Work on projects including legacy infrastructure and migrations.

Skills

Palo Alto

Next Gen Firewalls

Prisma

BGP

Infrastructure as Code

AWS

GCP

Azure

IPSEC

DHCP

DNS

Juniper switches

Load balancing

Job description

Principal Network Engineer

£85,000 plus annual bonus

Location: Remote, UK

We are seeking a highly experienced Network Engineer with expertise in diverse infrastructure to establish a Technical Operations approach for cloud and on-premises environments.

The role involves managing hosting environments, ensuring observability, high availability, and info-sec with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The ideal candidate will have experience working on multiple projects, including legacy infrastructure and migrations to modern systems.

Key skills include expertise in Palo Alto, Next Gen Firewalls, and Prisma.

The main focus is on observability, high availability, and information security, supporting system and network infrastructure such as switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, compute, storage, and virtualization. Experience in mergers & acquisitions is a plus.

Technical Expertise – Must Haves

1. Strong experience with Palo Alto portfolio, especially Prisma
2. Solid understanding of BGP, including designing, deploying, and troubleshooting
3. Enterprise-level system and network design experience
4. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
5. Knowledge of IPSEC, DHCP, DNS
6. Experience with Juniper switches & routers (Cisco considered)
7. Experience with VXLAN and EVPN
8. Load balancing experience (HAProxy preferred, F5, A10, Kemp as alternatives)