Senior Network Engineer

Creo Recruitment; Shrewsbury; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

This hands-on senior engineering role combines technical leadership, architecture, and project ownership with day-to-day engineering. You’ll configure hardware, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive projects from discovery through to successful delivery.

You’ll act as a senior technical authority across the network and telephony estate, leading multiple projects and mentoring junior engineers while carefully managing deployment risks in a high-consequence clinical environment.

Qualifications

• Recent hands-on configuration and design experience across networking, security and telephony technologies.
• Experience leading technical projects and managing deployment risks.
• Ability to mentor and direct less experienced engineers.
• Experience in large, complex or highly regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on ownership across networking, security and telephony infrastructure.
• Lead multiple network and telephony projects from discovery through delivery.
• Provide technical leadership to junior engineers and manage deployment risks.
• Act as senior technical authority for LAN, WAN, security and voice environments.

Skills

Aruba networking

ClearPass

FreeRADIUS

Cisco firewalls

Fortinet FortiGate

Mitel VoIP

Netcall

LAN

WAN

Troubleshooting

Infrastructure design

Project leadership

Mentoring

Job description

Senior Network Engineer - Up to £60k Salary - Hybrid working across Shrewsbury & Telford

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Network Engineer to join a large, complex enterprise environment, taking technical ownership across networking, security and telephony infrastructure.

This is a genuine hands-on senior engineering role combining technical leadership, architecture and project ownership with day-to-day engineering. You’ll have support from junior colleagues, but we’re looking for someone who is comfortable getting into the detail — personally configuring hardware, troubleshooting complex technical issues and independently taking projects from discovery through to successful delivery.

You’ll act as a senior technical authority across the network and telephony estate, identifying issues and designing practical solutions across enterprise LAN, WAN, security and voice environments.

You’ll independently lead multiple network and telephony projects through to completion, taking ownership of technical design, configuration, implementation and troubleshooting while carefully managing deployment risks within a high-consequence clinical environment.

Alongside remaining hands-on, you’ll provide technical leadership to junior engineers, delegate and manage technical tasks, and help upskill permanent members of the team throughout migrations and infrastructure changes.

Technical experience we're looking for:

This role requires recent, hands-on configuration and design experience across the following technologies:

• Networking & NAC: Aruba Networking, Aruba ClearPass and FreeRADIUS
• Firewalls & Security: Cisco and Fortinet/FortiGate firewalls
• Voice & Telephony: Mitel VoIP systems, including physical handsets and softphones, alongside Netcall solutions
• Strong enterprise networking knowledge across LAN and WAN environments
• Experience troubleshooting complex network, security and telephony issues
• Proven ability to independently design and implement infrastructure solutions
• Experience leading technical projects and managing deployment risks
• Ability to mentor and provide technical direction to less experienced engineers

What we're looking for:

This position would suit a Senior Network Engineer who enjoys being given genuine ownership rather than simply maintaining an existing environment.

You should be comfortable moving between technical strategy, architecture and hands-on engineering, with the ability to uncover problems, determine the right solution and then personally drive that solution through to implementation.

We’re particularly interested in engineers who have worked within large, complex or highly regulated environments, where resilience, change management and minimising operational risk are critical.