Senior Network Engineer

• Lead complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis across multi-vendor network domains as the highest escalation point.
• Define and maintain configuration standards, security baselines, and golden templates to ensure compliance with financial services regulations.
• Oversee lifecycle management, including firmware governance, vulnerability remediation, and audit readiness.
• Lead, mentor, and develop L1-L3 engineers through structured coaching, regular feedback, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide design assurance for new deployments and service modernisation across SDWAN, WAN, LAN/WLAN, VPN/SASE, and load-balancing environments.
• Support and guide automation initiatives, including Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines, compliance validation, and drift detection.
• Drive monitoring and telemetry enrichment strategies to improve event correlation and reduce mean time to resolution.
• Ensure architectural and operational activities adhere to financial services regulations and frameworks such as FCA, PRA, DORA, ISO 27001, and SOC.
• Maintain robust documentation, audit trails, and compliance validation for network changes and deployments.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and architectural governance to align with business priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Produce and present architectural reviews, performance dashboards, and compliance summaries for internal and customer stakeholders.
• Maintain and enrich the CMDB through topology validation and asset reconciliation.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• CI/CD
• CMDB
• Cisco
• Firmware
• Support
• LAN
• NAT
• Network
• Python
• SDWAN
• Security
• ServiceNow
• Terraform
• VPN
• WLAN

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We provide technical leadership and architectural governance for a global network environment supporting financial services clients in highly regulated environments. Our focus is on stability, security, scalability, compliance, and continuous evolution of complex, multi-vendor network estates. We work across SDWAN, WAN, LAN/WLAN, VPN/SASE, load-balancing, and security platforms, with a strong emphasis on automation, monitoring, lifecycle governance, and regulatory excellence. We also value mentoring, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement in a collaborative, high-performance team.

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in network engineering, architecture, and support within financial services or regulated environments.
• Proven experience defining standards, leading complex troubleshooting, and driving network evolution.
• Advanced technical knowledge across SDWAN, WAN, LAN/WLAN, VPN/SASE, load-balancing, and security platforms.
• Strong understanding of compliance, risk management, and regulatory frameworks.
• Effective communicator, able to engage stakeholders and lead governance activities.
• Experience with automation, monitoring, and network lifecycle management.
• Fluent written and spoken English, with the ability to produce audit-ready documentation and communicate confidently with senior and executive-level stakeholders.
• Deep multi-vendor expertise across Cisco, Fortinet, F5, and SASE platforms.
• Advanced routing, segmentation, and high-availability design experience, including BGP, OSPF, ACLs, NAT, and HA clusters.
• Knowledge of network security best practices, including least privilege, zero trust, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience with IPAM/DNS/DHCP platforms such as Infoblox.
• Experience implementing automation frameworks and CI/CD for network configuration using Python, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Highly desirable: experience in managed service or telecom environments serving financial services clients.
• Highly desirable: relevant certifications such as CCIE, Fortinet NSE8, F5, and SASE platform certifications.
• Highly desirable: experience with SolarWinds, ServiceNow, Infoblox, Zero-Touch Deployment, and CI/CD automation tools.