Senior Cisco Network Engineer

Digital Waffle; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Benefits

Job summary

Digital Waffle in Leicester, UK is seeking a hands-on Senior Cisco Network Engineer to be the technical escalation point for an experienced infrastructure team, guiding complex Cisco networking challenges and shaping a business-critical network estate.

You will support thousands of endpoints and a large Cisco estate, design, implement, and troubleshoot LAN/WAN/Wireless solutions, lead upgrades and projects, and mentor engineers across the Cisco stack.

Qualifications

• Advanced Cisco routing and switching experience.
• Enterprise LAN/WAN/Wireless networking expertise.
• Hands-on BGP, OSPF, EIGRP in production.
• Strong network security practices.
• CCNA/CCNP or equivalent certification.
• Experience with FMC, ISE, ISE-PIC, Catalyst and Wireless.
• Experience in large-scale enterprise with thousands of endpoints.
• Ability to act as senior escalation point and lead engineers.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior technical escalation point for Network and Infra Engineers.
• Provide leadership, mentoring and guidance across Cisco estate.
• Configure, maintain and optimise Cisco network infrastructure.
• Design, implement and troubleshoot LAN, WAN and Wireless solutions.
• Lead resolution of high-level incidents and provide 3rd line support.
• Deliver network upgrades, migrations and projects.
• Strengthen resilience, performance and security.
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors on projects.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Escalation point

Network design

Education

CCNA/CCNP or equivalent certification

Tools

BGP

OSPF

EIGRP

Cisco FMC

ISE

ISE-PIC

Cisco Catalyst

Cisco Wireless

Job description

Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Location: Leicester , UK (Hybrid)
Salary: Up to £60,000 + Benefits

This is a hands-on senior engineering role where you'll become the technical escalation point for an experienced infrastructure team, providing expert guidance on complex Cisco networking challenges while helping shape the future of a business-critical network estate.

Supporting an environment of over 7,000 endpoints, 1,600+ Cisco LAN devices and 220+ WAN links, you'll play a key role in maintaining, optimising and evolving a predominantly Cisco network.

What You'll Be Doing

• Act as the senior technical escalation point for Network and Infrastructure Engineers.


• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to engineers working across the Cisco estate.


• Configure, maintain and optimise Cisco network infrastructure across a large multi-site environment.


• Design, implement and troubleshoot complex LAN, WAN and Wireless networking solutions.


• Lead the resolution of high-level networking incidents and provide 3rd line support.


• Deliver network upgrades, migrations and infrastructure improvement projects.


• Strengthen network resilience, performance and security.


• Work closely with internal teams and third-party vendors to deliver successful projects.

Essential Experience

This role is heavily weighted towards advanced Cisco networking within a large enterprise environment. We're looking for someone with extensive hands-on experience across Cisco technologies who can confidently lead from a technical standpoint.

• Advanced Cisco routing and switching experience.


• Strong commercial experience supporting enterprise LAN, WAN and Wireless networks.


• Advanced practical experience with BGP, OSPF and EIGRP in production environments.


• Strong understanding of network security best practices.


• CCNA, CCNP or equivalent commercial experience.


• Advanced experience with Cisco Firepower Management Centre (FMC).


• Advanced experience with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE).


• Advanced experience with Cisco Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC).


• Advanced experience with Cisco Catalyst switching.


• Advanced experience with Cisco Wireless technologies.


• Experience operating within a large-scale enterprise network supporting thousands of endpoints and multiple sites.


• The ability to act as the senior escalation point, providing technical advice, guidance and leadership to experienced engineers across the team.

Desirable Experience

• VMware or Hyper-V.


• Storage Area Networks (SAN).


• Enterprise backup and disaster recovery solutions.


• Microsoft Active Directory, Windows Server, Exchange and SharePoint.


• Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.


• PowerShell, Ansible or Terraform.


• Cisco Unified Communications / VoIP.