Senior Network Engineer — Hands-On Architect & Lead (Hybrid)

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

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.