Network Patching Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced Network Patching Engineer to support a large-scale network upgrade programme across a distributed estate of 10,000-20,000 devices. You’ll carry out approved patching and upgrade activities safely, validating service health before and after every change and troubleshooting methodically when things don’t go to plan.

This is a hands-on delivery role, so you must be comfortable executing controlled network changes at scale., * Execute approved network patching and firmware/software upgrade activities in line with the agreed change plan

• Review change plans, identify missing prerequisites or unsafe assumptions, and raise them before work begins
• Complete pre-change health checks and capture a reliable baseline before every change
• Follow process scripts and change control procedures accurately
• Run defined post-change tests, compare results against the baseline and recognise abnormal results
• Troubleshoot using monitoring, logs, configuration comparison and connectivity tests
• Work across a mix of technologies, mostly Cisco, plus F5 and Check Point

• Practical experience in network patching, upgrades or change implementation in a large or comparable estate
• Network routing protocols and routing troubleshooting
• LAN technologies and switching
• WAN connectivity and carrier dependencies
• Firewall and security policy concepts
• Load balancer and traffic-flow concepts
• High availability and failover
• Network monitoring, alarms and logging