Network Engineer

• Engagement: Contract (B2B / inside umbrella) or FTE Rate (nearshore EU): €225 / day About the role You'll join the network infrastructure and operations team of a large, regulated UK financial services organisation. You'll provide day-to-day support of incidents and change requests, and own the installation, configuration and support of production, non-production and disaster-recovery network infrastructure. You'll work across the full lifecycle - design, documentation, build, live transition and support - and apply modern engineering practice: Software-Defined Networking (SDN), automation and orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and advanced observability, to deliver resilient, secure and scalable services.

Requirements Essential skills (all required, hands-on) Cisco Routing & Switching to CCNP/CCIE standard - OSPF, BGP, Spanning-Tree Cisco ACI - data-centre fabric Cisco Secure Access / Secure Connect (SASE) and hybrid ZTNA Cisco Meraki - SD-WAN, switching, wireless Check Point firewalls - CCSA / CCSE F5 - both LTM and GTM (BIG-IP) Also expected Designing, implementing and supporting LAN/WAN and IP networks DNS and DHCP (Windows / Unix / internet-facing) Security around internet-facing services; understanding of vulnerability assessment / penetration testing Scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code Environment Regulated financial-services network estate (Cisco core, Check Point + Cisco firewalls, Meraki, F5, Cisco ACI, cloud-integrated). Emphasis on secure, internet-facing, highly available services. Experience 8-15 years in enterprise/regulated network engineering. CCIE (Enterprise or Security) strongly preferred given the breadth of the stack. To apply Send your CV with earliest availability to Yadimen @ [email protected] . Please confirm location & work authorisation.