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# Network Engineer

- **Company:** SF Partners
- **Location:** Birmingham, UK
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Spanning Tree Protocols, Data Centers, Linux, Hot Standby Router Protocol, IPv4, IPv6, Multicasting, Routing, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Ansible, Virtual Local Area Networks, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocols, System Availability, Software Troubleshooting, Firewalls (Computer Science), Cisco, Vmware
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5928847554

## About the Role

* Strong enterprise networking experience across routing and switching
 * Knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRRP/HSRP and Spanning Tree
 * Strong understanding of QoS, Multicast, IPv4/IPv6 and high availability networking
 * Experience with switching platforms
 * Modern data centre networking exposure including EVPN, VXLAN, MLAG and leaf-spine architectures
 * Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills across routing, switching, firewalls and connectivity
 * Experience working within secure or air-gapped environments
 * Strong customer-facing communication skills with the ability to take ownership of technical projects
 * Eligibility for MOD DV/STRAP clearance
 * Full UK driving licence
 * Willingness to travel to customer sites

## Description

* Take ownership of the design, implementation, configuration and support of complex enterprise network infrastructure
 * Attend customer sites to deliver installations, upgrades, network audits and technical health checks
 * Deliver secure, high-performance networking solutions across business-critical and highly secure environments
 * Work within national infrastructure as part of a close-knit technical team
 * Combine hands-on engineering with customer engagement
 * Solve complex technical problems and support technical projects end to end

Technologies:

 * Support
 * Network
 * Ansible
 * Cisco
 * Linux
 * VMware