Network Engineer

SBA are currently supporting our Central Government client, who are seeking a Senior Network Engineer on an initial 6 month + contract, * Join a highly skilled engineering team supporting complex, business-critical enterprise network environments.

• Provide 3rd-line support across routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, wireless and remote-access technologies.
• Design, implement and support secure, resilient networks across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
• Drive Network Automation, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Develop automated network deployment and configuration solutions using Ansible, Python/PowerShell, Git and REST APIs.
• Integrate network provisioning and configuration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support monitoring, observability, capacity planning, performance optimisation and continuous service improvement.

• Strong experience as a Senior Network Engineer within complex enterprise environments.
• Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, NAT, QoS and VLSM.
• Strong experience with LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, VPNs, OSPF and BGP.
• Hands-on experience across routing, switching, firewalls, wireless and load balancing.
• Strong Ansible experience, including playbooks, roles, inventories and automation workflows.
• Scripting experience with Python, PowerShell or Bash.
• Experience with Git, REST APIs, JSON/YAML, IaC and CI/CD.
• Experience supporting on-premises and cloud networking, resilience, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience working within ITSM/change-controlled environments.

Desirable

• AWS, Azure and/or GCP networking experience.
• Software Defined Networking (SDN) experience.
• Previous experience within highly regulated or security-conscious environments.
• Flexibility for occasional out-of-hours work and travel between sites.