Senior Network Operations Engineer - Hybrid Contract

World Wide Technology; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

World Wide Technology is seeking an experienced Network Operations Support Engineer to support and optimize enterprise and data centre networks within a regulated environment. This is a contract role inside IR35 in London with hybrid working two days per week. The ideal candidate will combine strong incident response with collaboration across engineering, security, and business stakeholders to keep network services stable and high‑performing. The contract duration is 6 months.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of enterprise/data centre networking experience.
• Hands-on Cisco ACI experience (tenants, policies, APIC).
• Hands-on Palo Alto and Fortinet firewall experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 support for enterprise and data centre networks.
• Lead incident response and drive root-cause remediation.
• Implement network and firewall changes with risk/rollback planning.
• Support Cisco ACI, Palo Alto, and Fortinet platforms.
• Maintain baselines, SOPs, and operational documentation.
• Liaise with vendors and stakeholders on faults and SLAs.
• Report on incidents, availability, and operational KPIs.

Skills

Cisco ACI

Palo Alto

Fortinet

MPLS

SD-WAN

Python

Ansible

Spine-leaf architectures

HA designs

Stakeholder management

Regulated industries

Incident response

Job description

World Wide Technology is seeking an experienced Network Operations Support Engineer to support and optimize enterprise and data centre networks within a regulated environment. This is a contract role inside IR35 in London with hybrid working two days per week. The ideal candidate will combine strong incident response with collaboration across engineering, security, and business stakeholders to keep network services stable and high‑performing. The contract duration is 6 months.