About Ekco

🚀 Founded in 2016, Ekco has quickly become one of Europe’s fastest-growing cloud solution providers and your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider.

IT leaders choose Ekco to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk – powered by local expertise, delivered at European scale.

We specialise in helping organisations advance their cloud maturity guiding transformation, strengthening security, and maximising the value of their technology investments.

☁️ In simple terms: we help organisations modernise with confidence securing their systems, optimising their cloud, and keeping them resilient in a rapidly changing world.

🌍 Today, we’re a thriving team of 1,000+ talented and supportive colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Benelux, South Africa, and Malaysia and we’re continuing to grow.

At Ekco, how we work matters as much as what we deliver. Our people live by four core values that shape everything we do:

• On It: We take ownership, follow through, and get things done.
• All In : We collaborate, support each other, and commit fully to shared goals.
• Connected: We build trusted relationships with colleagues, clients, and partners.
• Hungry to Grow: We stay curious, keep learning, and push ourselves to the next level.

🏠If these values resonate with you, you’ll feel right at home here.

Role

Working directly for the Network Practice Lead, this is an integral role in the support of the Global data centre networks not only working on the day-to-day delivery of service but also participating in mission critical projects, network development and implementations. We put the customer at the heart of the service we provide so you must be an effective communicator, comfortable directly engaging with stakeholders and colleagues. You must also demonstrate an analytical and systematic approach to technical challenges.

A key aspect of the role will be implementing and maintaining new networking solutions, identifying improvements to the networks across multiple data centres, and delivering network related projects as part of multi-practice project teams.

You will be self-motivated and be able to work autonomously and within a team to achieve day to day objectives with significant results on project or operational deliverables, whilst also owning a variety of activities ensuring compliance with project milestones, KPI's and SLA's.

Responsibilities

As a senior network engineer at Ekco you will be:

• Providing maintenance and support for Ekco’s networks across multiple DCs.
• Performing investigations and taking ownership of operational incidents, problems or changes and preparing solutions to achieve resolution/fulfilment within agreed timescales.
• Actioning production support requests, as required, in a timely and effective manner, in accordance with agreed service levels.
• Producing documentation including system documentations.
• Providing networking support other teams within the business.
• Identifying continuous improvement opportunities.
• Liaising with vendors and suppliers for support escalation.
• Providing technical mentoring to junior engineers within the team.
• Participating in rota based, on-call support with the Global Networks team.
• Maintain network solutions across multiple vendors, technologies and datacentres.
• Acting as a peer reviewer for networking changes.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of routing protocols (OSPF, BGP) including troubleshooting and optimisation
• Experience with internet peering, BGP policies, and traffic engineering
• Familiarity with IP management and RIPE NCC processes (IPv4/IPv6, RPKI)
• Hands-on experience with network OS platforms (Dell OS10, SONiC, Cumulus Linux, Junos)
• Solid understanding of datacenter networking (leaf-spine, VXLAN EVPN, MPLS, VPNs)
• Experience managing firewalls, preferably FortiGate
• Strong troubleshooting skills in production/24×7 environments

Benefits / Perks

☀️ Time Off: 25 days annual leave + public holidays

🎂 Birthday Leave: One extra day off to celebrate

💰 Company Pension Scheme

📞 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support

🏃 ♀️ EkcOlympics: Global team activity challenges

📚 Unlimited access to Pluralsight for continuous development

🌱 Real opportunities to grow, including international progression

Why Ekco

⭐️ Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the Year

🚀 First Irish Microsoft MSP to achieve all four Microsoft Security Specializations

🏅 Ranked 4th fastest-growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards

🌈 A culture rooted in diversity, equality, inclusion & belonging

🎉 A commitment to internal mobility and career progression

✨ Flexible, family-friendly working at the heart of our culture

🔐 Proud to be your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider chosen by IT leaders to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk.