Network Engineer

Role Title: Network Engineer - Active SC Clearance
Location: Office - Barrow In Furness LA14 1AF(Onsite)
Based in Barrow 5 days a week f/t – please be aware these roles will may involve rotational out of hours working, anticipating a 16:30 – 23:30 evening shift for 2 weeks, followed by 2 weeks on a standard 7.5 hr day shift – subject to change.
Duration: 31/12/2025 with possible extensions
Rate: £ 585 Per Day - Inside IR35

Role Description:
• Inputting into High Level Designs
• Creating Low Level designs from approved High Level Designs
• Configuring core infrastructure components e.g. Data Centre Fabric, Access/Distribution Switches, routers, WAN, firewalls, load balancers, Authentication servers, Wifi controllers, management tooling.
• Performing impact assessments on large or complex networks.
• Performing testing to pre-determined plans and analyse results.
• Planning survey's / surveying for cross/site distribution areas ( Fibre ) - checking for cabling power/space (photo's to be taken)
• Installing new SDA switches in readiness for OOH work for installation/take on and testing of kit, providing ELS and decom/removal of old switches Installation/take on and testing of new SDA kit

Key Skills
o Network Architecture / Architecture (Compute/storage/End User)
o Working in secure environments
o Network Design (HLD/LLD)
o Cisco Networking (Routing/Switching)
o Data Centre Networking
o Cisco ACI
o Firewalls (Palo Alto / Cisco)
o Authentication (802.1x / Cisco ISE / AD familiarity)
o Network management
o Load balancing (Netscaler)
o Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access)
o Meraki
o WIFI
o Remote access
o Encryption