Senior Network Engineer – Hybrid Cloud, IaC & Automation

Summer-Browning Associates; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Summer-Browning Associates is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for a government client in a 6-month+ contract. You will join a highly skilled team supporting complex enterprise networks, providing 3rd-line expertise across routing, switching, firewalls, and VPNs in on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities include automating deployments with Ansible and scripting in Python/PowerShell, integrating network provisioning into CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring reliability, observability

Qualifications

• Experience as Senior Network Engineer in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, NAT, QoS, and VLSM.
• Hands-on routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, WAN, SD-WAN.
• Proficiency with Ansible playbooks and automation workflows.
• Scripting in Python/PowerShell/Bash; Git, REST APIs, and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Provide 3rd-line support across routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, wireless and remote-access technologies.
• Design, implement and support secure, resilient networks across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
• Drive Network Automation, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Develop automated network deployment and configuration solutions using Ansible, Python/PowerShell, Git and REST APIs.
• Integrate network provisioning and configuration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support monitoring, observability, capacity planning, performance optimisation and continuous service improvement.

Skills

Senior Network Engineer

TCP/IP

DNS/DHCP

VLANs/IPv4/IPv6

WAN/SD-WAN

VPNs

Ansible

Python/PowerShell/Bash

Git/REST APIs/IaC/CI/CD

ITSM/Change Control

Tools

Ansible

Git

REST APIs

IaC

CI/CD

Job description

Summer-Browning Associates is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for a government client in a 6-month+ contract. You will join a highly skilled team supporting complex enterprise networks, providing 3rd-line expertise across routing, switching, firewalls, and VPNs in on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities include automating deployments with Ansible and scripting in Python/PowerShell, integrating network provisioning into CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring reliability, observability