Network Engineer - £450 - £550 Per Day - Oxford (Hybrid) - 6 Months

Overview

We are currently searching for an experienced Network & Systems Engineer to join a leading technology organisation on a hybrid basis in Oxford. The role will focus primarily on enterprise networking across campus, data centre and multi-cloud environments, while also providing broader systems administration support when required.

Role & Responsibilities

• Support and maintain enterprise LAN/WLAN, routing, switching, VLANs, VPNs, DNS, DHCP and IPAM environments.
• Manage and troubleshoot firewalls, cloud networking and connectivity across AWS and GCP.
• Monitor network performance and availability, taking ownership of incidents through to resolution.
• Support systems administration tasks including account provisioning, server patching, storage and backup troubleshooting.
• Maintain network security through configuration reviews, policy enforcement and best practice.
• Support network design reviews and the transition of new infrastructure into production.
• Maintain technical documentation, network diagrams, SOPs and operational runbooks.

Technical Requirements

• 5+ years' experience within enterprise network operations and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience with LAN/WLAN, routing, switching, VLANs, DNS and DHCP.
• Knowledge of networking protocols including BGP, VRRP/HSRP, TCP/UDP and LACP.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, including packet capture and network diagnostic tools.
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP networking.
• Experience with Arista EOS / CloudVision or similar networking platforms would be highly advantageous.
• Knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls, 802.1x, RADIUS and Zero Trust environments would be beneficial.
• Exposure to Terraform, Ansible, Git, LogicMonitor, Grafana or Prometheus would be advantageous.
• Experience with AWS Direct Connect or GCP Interconnect would be beneficial.
• Comfortable providing wider Windows/Linux systems administration support when required.

Role & Package

£450 - £550 Per Day

6 Months (Likely Extensions)

Oxford (Hybrid)

Network Engineer - £450 - £550 Per Day - Oxford (Hybrid) - 6 Months