Senior Network Engineer Remote-First Data Centre Networking

SF Partners; Pershore; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first working environment

Generous pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Private healthcare

Training budget & time allocation

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Exposure to cutting-edge networking

Job summary

SF Partners is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join a high-growth technology team near Worcester. You will work across routing, switching, firewalls and data centre networking, delivering high-performance solutions in secure environments.

You will handle EVPN/VXLAN, Leaf-Spine architectures and NVIDIA Mellanox/Cumulus platforms, while engaging with customers and owning complex projects. A strong documentation mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Experienced network engineer with enterprise routing and switching background.
• Hands-on with Cisco Catalyst 9300 and Cisco Firepower 2100 Series (FTD).
• Strong knowledge of EVPN, VXLAN, MLAG, leaf-spine architectures.
• Practical experience in secure, business-critical or air-gapped networks.
• Proven ability to produce network diagrams, implementation plans and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Deliver secure, high-performance networking solutions across critical environments.
• Manage routing & switching across data centre and enterprise networks.
• Engage with customers and take ownership of complex networking projects.
• Create technical documentation and implementation plans.

Skills

Routing & Switching

BGP/OSPF/VLANs/VRRP/HSRP/Spanning Tree

QoS/Multicast/IPv4-IPv6/HA

NVIDIA Mellanox/Cumulus Linux

Cisco Catalyst 9300

Cisco Firepower 2100/FTD

EVPN/VXLAN/MLAG/Leaf-Spine

Documentation & network diagrams

Air-gapped security environments

Customer-facing communication

Ansible IaC

Linux/VMware/ESXi

Tools

Ansible

Job description

SF Partners is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join a high-growth technology team near Worcester. You will work across routing, switching, firewalls and data centre networking, delivering high-performance solutions in secure environments.

You will handle EVPN/VXLAN, Leaf-Spine architectures and NVIDIA Mellanox/Cumulus platforms, while engaging with customers and owning complex projects. A strong documentation mindset is essential.