Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer – Farnborough, UK

• Salary up to £80,000 Depending on Experience
• Onsite role in Farnborough
• Active SC clearance required

About the Client

Our client is a specialist technology organisation operating within highly secure environments, delivering innovative network and infrastructure solutions that support critical national capabilities. They are known for combining technical excellence with a modern engineering mindset and are continuing to grow their expert network function. Due to this continued expansion, they are looking to hire an experienced Senior Network Engineer to join their team.

The Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme and life assurance
• Ongoing professional development and training
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Additional employee benefits platform

The Senior Network Engineer Role

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will design, implement, and support secure network infrastructures across a range of complex environments. You will work across production LANs and global WANs, implement bespoke firewall rules, and contribute to high- and low-level network designs.

The role blends hands-on delivery with technical problem solving, lab work, and proof of concepts, making it ideal for an engineer who enjoys shaping and improving network solutions.

Senior Network Engineer Essential Skills

• Strong experience delivering and supporting WAN architectures
• In-depth knowledge of routing protocols including OSPF and BGP
• Experience with VPNs and network security infrastructure (for example IKEv2 and next-generation firewalls)
• Ability to work from both high level and low level network designs and produce clear documentation
• Proven troubleshooting and implementation experience in secure environments

Desirable Skills

• Data centre networking (spine-leaf, EVPN, BGP, Geneve)
• Infrastructure automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible or Terraform
• Experience with NSX, high assurance IP encryptors, or whitebox networking
• Cisco CCNP or equivalent practical experience

To Be Considered

Please either apply through this advert or emailing me directly via [email protected]. For further information please call me: 07719 065949. By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.

Key skills: Senior Network Engineer, WAN, LAN, BGP, OSPF, VPN, Network Security, Firewalls, Data Centre Networking, Automation, NSD