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About the Role
The Senior Network Engineer will provide hands-on technical expertise across a client's network infrastructure estate, supporting the operation, maintenance, and enhancement of critical network, firewall, load balancing, and connectivity services. This is a technical delivery role for an experienced engineer who enjoys collaborative work to support and improve critical infrastructure services.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Network, Security, Compute, and Platform Engineering teams, supporting operational service delivery, project implementation, major incident resolution, and technology lifecycle activities.
- Help drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and automated testing capabilities to improve service reliability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
- Support the day-to-day operation of network infrastructure and associated services, including maintaining and enhancing Cisco switching, routing, firewall, and load balancing platforms.
- Investigate and resolve complex incidents, problems, and service requests in collaboration with colleagues, suppliers, and technology partners, and contribute to root cause analysis and continuous service improvement activities.
- Support infrastructure projects, maintenance activities, and technology refresh programs, and participate in major incident and service recovery activities.
- Build effective working relationships across Technology teams, suppliers, and service partners, providing clear and effective communication during incidents, changes, and service reviews.
- Deliver a high standard of customer service and stakeholder engagement.
Requirements
- Strong experience in network engineering, with the ability to support and improve business-critical network services.
- Currently holds active SC clearance or is SC clearance eligible.
- Cisco CCNP certification or equivalent practical industry experience.
- Experience supporting Cisco Nexus switching and Cisco UCS platforms.
- Experience supporting enterprise firewall technologies, ideally including Check Point VSX environments.
- Strong understanding of routing, switching, network security, and infrastructure operations.
- Experience developing automated testing and validation solutions for infrastructure changes alongside dedicated testing or quality assurance teams to implement automated testing capabilities.
- Experience using automation technologies such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent tools.
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and modern infrastructure management practices.
- Experience working within operational environments where service availability and stability are critical.
Skills
- Network engineering
- Cisco switching
- Cisco routing
- Cisco firewall
- Cisco load balancing
- Cisco Nexus switching
- Cisco UCS platforms
- Check Point VSX environments
- Routing
- Switching
- Network security
- Infrastructure operations
- Automated testing
- Python
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Azure networking
- AWS networking
- Software-defined networking
- Network security automation
- Policy management
- Compute infrastructure
- Storage infrastructure
- Virtualisation
- Security infrastructure
Location
- London
- Leeds
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Cisco CCNP certification or equivalent practical industry experience
Benefits
- Full range of benefits
About the Company
- Peregrine builds workforces that deliver tech and change programmes at leading UK organisations.
- We combine data science from Peregrine Intelligence, our industry-accredited Peregrine Academy, and market-leading attraction and diversity initiatives to bridge capability gaps at all levels in public and private sector organisations.
- We work closely with our clients to understand their challenges and deliver flexible, long-term solutions that make a real difference.
- When you join Peregrine, you become part of a team that’s focused on growth, both yours, our clients’, and the sectors we support.
- As a permanent employee at Peregrine, you’ll be part of our Specialist Talent team, working on-site or remotely with clients on complex, high-impact projects in Data, Digital, and Business Transformation.
- We offer the variety and challenge of consultancy work with the stability and support of a permanent role.
- We are curious, open, and always learning.
- We believe in doing great work and doing it with integrity.
- We support each other, share ideas freely, and celebrate progress big and small.
- We care about the impact we make, whether that’s helping clients solve tough problems or creating opportunities for people from all walks of life.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be a diverse team, with 20+ nationalities represented across Peregrine.
- We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences, and we’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
- Through our partnerships and internal initiatives, we’re working to improve social mobility, reduce our environmental impact, and help our clients build more inclusive teams too.