Senior Network Engineer

Morgan McKinley; Oxford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organisation in Oxford is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, deploy, manage, and maintain the global network infrastructure. The role requires expertise in routing, switching, and network security, ensuring optimal uptime and availability. Candidates should possess excellent communication and organisational skills, with experience in handling complex network architectures. Join a dynamic team to support business goals and growth.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a global enterprise network architecture (WAN, campus and data centre).
• Strong experience in routing and switching architectures, including OSPF, BGP, ECMP, and VXLAN.
• Knowledge of network security architectures including firewalls and VPN.

Responsibilities

• Plan, build, and deliver new network capabilities and deployments.
• Maintain network security through proper configuration of firewalls and VPN.
• Manage multi-site network operations and perform regular maintenance.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Job description

The details…

We're supporting a leading organisation in Oxford that is seeking a Senior Network Engineer and be responsible for designing, deploying, managing and maintaining all aspects of the global network and physical infrastructure, ensuring the best possible uptime and availability to support the business’ customers, goals and growth.

Responsibilities

• Plan, build, and deliver new network capabilities and deployments from standards and design documents to meet the needs of the business.
• Maintaining network security through proper configuration of firewalls, wireless access points and VPN.
• Maintaining multi-site network operations to support internal applications, operating systems including regular maintenance with both private and public facilities.
• Physical installation and maintenance of network, power and server hardware.
• Creating and maintaining documentation and network diagrams.
• Full lifecycle management of network devices as well as support and development of network management and monitoring systems.
• Performing regular preventative maintenance tasks such as capacity management and software updates.

What we’re looking for

In this role, you'll need to interact and engage with other teams and explain technical issues to non-technical staff. As such, we're looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who can develop and maintain productive working relationships. You'll also have good organisational skills, the ability to handle multiple projects and work items and a keen attention to detail. If you are currently certified, this would be a bonus.

We'll also expect you to have the following experience, knowledge and skills :

• Experience running, managing and implementing all aspects of a global enterprise network architecture (WAN, campus and data centre)
• Strong technical experience managing, supporting and optimising: Enterprise and data centre routing and switching architectures, including OSPF, BGP, ECMP, and VXLAN.
• Network security architectures and SASE, including firewalls, VPN and IDS / IPS.
• Data centre power, cooling and cabling standards, including experience of single and multi-mode fibre optic networks.
• Experience working with WAN providers and fibre network infrastructure, including DIA, SDWAN, wavelength and dark fibre circuits