Network Engineer*

Recruitment Agency: Xcede

Location: Fully remote (UK)  

Temporary: 6-12 month contract

Salary: Not listed

• Job description

  Our client is rebuilding its network across 60+ onshore sites, control rooms and new offshore wind farms. You'll join a small engineering team moving the business off legacy MPLS onto a secure, automated network. Much of it is greenfield design and build, not business as usual.
  
  The work
  

  • Design and build WAN and site networks, from high-level design through to cutover

  • Lead site migrations from MPLS to SD-WAN with minimal downtime

  • Segment OT (control system) networks from corporate IT using firewalls and NAC

  • Connect remote and offshore sites over fibre, microwave and private LTE/5G

  • Automate routine changes with Python or Ansible

  • Write designs, test plans and handover documents

  
  You'll need
  

  • 5+ years as a network engineer in enterprise or service provider environments

  • Strong routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, QoS) on Cisco, Juniper or Arista

  • Firewall experience (Palo Alto, Fortinet or similar)

  • A track record of delivering network migrations end to end

  • Comfortable working remotely and owning a workstream

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