Summary: The Network Engineer role requires a skilled professional to work fully onsite in Cumbria, focusing on network design and management within a secure public sector environment. The position involves creating high and low-level designs, configuring core infrastructure components, and performing impact assessments and testing. The contract is set to last until the end of August, with a start date of April 14, 2025. The role is classified as inside IR35, indicating specific tax implications for contractors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Inputting into High Level Designs
• Creating Low Level designs from approved High Level Designs
• Configuring core infrastructure components (Data Centre Fabric, Access/Distribution Switches, routers, WAN, firewalls, load balancers, Authentication servers, Wi-Fi controllers, management tooling)
• Performing impact assessments on large or complex networks
• Performing testing to pre-determined plans and analysing results
• Planning surveys/surveying for cross/site distribution areas (Fibre)
• Installing new SDA switches and testing new SDA kit
• Providing ELS and decom/removal of old switches

Key Skills:

• Network Architecture (Compute/storage/End User)
• Experience in secure environments
• Network Design (HLD/LLD) and Network management
• Cisco Networking (Routing/Switching), Data Centre Networking, Cisco ACI
• Firewalls (Palo Alto / Cisco)
• Authentication (802.1x/Cisco ISE/AD familiarity)
• Load balancing (Netscaler)
• Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access)
• Meraki, Wi-Fi, remote access, encryption

Salary (Rate): 450

City: Cumbria

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT