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# Network Engineer

- **Company:** Sanderson Recruitment Plc
- **Location:** Tewkesbury, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £40,000.0 - £58,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Spanning Tree Protocols, Data Centers, Hot Standby Router Protocol, IPv4, IPv6, Multicasting, Routing, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Virtual Local Area Networks, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocols, Computer Network Technologies, System Availability, Software Troubleshooting
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-3698E0DE12EAD8FBE3/

## About the Role

You are an experienced Senior Network Engineer with a passion for solving complex networking challenges. You enjoy working directly with customers, are comfortable taking ownership of projects, and have the confidence to lead technical discussions and provide expert guidance. You thrive in environments where reliability, security, and attention to detail are paramount, and you enjoy working with modern data centre networking technologies as well as traditional
enterprise infrastructure.

The successful candidate will have experience with the following:

 * Extensive experience designing and supporting enterprise network infrastructure.
 * Expert-level routing and switching knowledge.
 * Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and diagnostic skills.
 * Excellent customer-facing communication skills.
 * Strong understanding of:
o BGP
o OSPF
o VLANs
o VRRP/HSRP
o Spanning Tree
o QoS
o Multicast
o IPv4/IPv6
o High Availability networking

 * Due to the nature of this work, candidates must already hold a DV clearance.



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