Senior Network Engineer

Salary: £65,000 – £70,000

Location: Reading, United Kingdom – Hybrid

Due to the continued success of the business and expansion of their team, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join their team on a hybrid basis.

As their newest Senior Network Engineer, you will be integral in designing and implementing solutions to the ISP’s Core Network. You will also have the opportunity to lead a team of Project Engineers in implementing your designs. This is a role where you will have real collaboration with your team, while flexing your design and implementation skills.

You will have the opportunity to work in a hybrid manner out of their brand new, state-of-the-art office. The business is based in the heart of Reading, in walking distance of Reading train stations.

Senior Network Engineer Role Overview

As the Senior Network Engineer, you will look after the project delivery, assist other engineers when necessary, and support their expanding core network. You will, maintain their networks, monitor the core project team, and act as a senior escalation point to the NOC. Additionally, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Your key focus will be to design networks, preform implementations, and configure, the core network.
• Working closely with both technical and non-technical staff.
• Manage a team of Project Engineers.
• You will look after delivery of projects.
• Have the opportunity to work on and further your experience in the full project lifecycle.
• Act as a senior escalation point to the network operations team.

Skills and Experience required for the Senior Network Engineer

The business is committed to your professional development and offers financial support and time to pursue additional training and certification that will support you in your work. The business does ask that you have:

• A minimum of 5 years’ technical experience.
• Ideally currently holding Juniper Certification, with JNCIP-SP.
• A high level of understanding of BGP, and MPLS in Core Networks.
• Experience working in an ISP environment.
• Experience working with Juniper, ideally SRX.
• Server experience including VMware, and Linux.
• Confidence in communicating effectively, with both sales and technical staff.

If you are a Project Engineer with experience in an ISP environment with a high-level understanding of designing and implementing core networks, or if you are an implementation engineer looking to move into a senior role, we would love to hear from you.