Senior Network Engineer

Searchability®; Basildon; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-call allowance

Paid callouts

Hybrid working (Basildon)

Job summary

Searchability® in Basildon, Essex is seeking a senior Network Engineer for a hands-on role across customer projects and internal ISP/datacentre environments. You'll own network installations and migrations from design through delivery, working within a growing MSP environment.

The role covers Fortinet, Cisco Meraki, SD-WAN, BGP, peering, and datacentre initiatives across 200+ sites. Hybrid working (approx. 3 days in-office, 2 days WFH) with £60k-£65k base and on-call allowances.

Qualifications

• Senior-level network engineering experience in MSP/ISP environments.
• Strong BGP knowledge with peering and production troubleshooting.
• Cisco routing and switching experience, Nexus/NX-OS skills.
• Fortinet/ FortiGate expertise plus firewalling, VPNs and HA.
• Experience with SD-WAN, Meraki, and datacentre networking a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own network installation and migration projects from design to delivery.
• Contribute to internal datacentre and ISP projects, plus R&D.
• Handle complex escalations and multi-site deployments.
• Work on Fortinet, Cisco Meraki deployments and SD-WAN migrations.
• Support 24x7 on-call rota with associated allowances.

Skills

BGP

Cisco routing

Nexus/NX-OS

Fortinet

FortiGate

FortiManager

VLANs

EIGRP

SD-WAN

Cisco Meraki

Datacentre networking

ISP/Datacentre ops

VPN technologies

Tools

Fortinet FortiGate/NX-OS

Cisco Nexus

Meraki Management

SD-WAN appliances

Job description

• Basildon, Essex - hybrid working, typically around 3 days office / 2 days WFH depending on projects
• Senior, hands-on position across customer projects and an internal ISP / datacentre environment

ABOUT THE CLIENT

We're working with an established Managed Service Provider experiencing continued growth across its network customer base, including large-scale and critical infrastructure environments.

Due to increased project workload, they're looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join an established networking team, working across complex customer environments alongside their own ISP and datacentre infrastructure.

THE SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER ROLE

This is a genuinely hands-on senior networking role, rather than a position dominated by BAU support tickets.

You'll take ownership of network installation and migration projects from design through to delivery, alongside contributing to internal datacentre and ISP projects, product R&D and complex technical escalations.

Current and upcoming work includes large multi-site Fortinet and Cisco Meraki deployments, SD-WAN migrations, datacentre projects and changes associated with the organisation's infrastructure platform migration. The team has recently taken on projects covering more than 200 sites, so there's plenty of interesting project work to get involved with.

You'll also work across the ISP environment, including BGP, peering, transit and edge connectivity, while acting as a senior technical escalation point when particularly complex networking issues arise.

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Strong senior-level Network Engineering experience, ideally within an MSP, ISP or service-provider environment
• Excellent BGP knowledge including peering, route policy and production troubleshooting
• Cisco routing and switching experience
• Cisco Nexus / NX-OS and datacentre networking
• Fortinet including FortiGate and FortiManager
• Firewalling, NAT, IPSec VPN and SSL VPN
• VLANs, STP, EIGRP and network redundancy / HA
• Strong troubleshooting and customer-facing communication skills
• Full UK driving licence
• Experience with SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ubiquiti UniFi, Sophos XG, Cisco ASA / Firepower, VMware or Hyper-V would also be useful.

The position also forms part of a 24x7 out-of-hours on-call rota, with a separate on-call allowance and paid callout payments in addition to the £60,000 - £65,000 base salary.

KEY SKILLS

Senior Network Engineer, Network Engineer, Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiManager, Cisco, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASR, BGP, EIGRP, SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, ISP, MSP, Datacentre, IPSec, VPN, Basildon, Essex