Network Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by ISR Recruitment
£65 Per hour
Undetermined
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Network Engineer role is a 6-month contract position focused on enhancing critical network infrastructure for a leading public sector organization. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining network performance, availability, and security in a complex enterprise environment. This position requires collaboration with various teams to support infrastructure modernization and operational resilience initiatives. The role is remote and involves working on a major central government project related to Government Digital Services (GDS).
Key Responsibilities:
- Support, maintain and optimise enterprise network infrastructure across complex environments
- Monitor network performance, availability and security, proactively identifying and resolving issues
- Troubleshoot network incidents, outages and connectivity issues across multiple environments
- Support infrastructure upgrades, migrations and network improvement projects
- Work closely with infrastructure, security and operational teams to ensure reliable and secure network services
- Assist with network capacity planning, resilience and disaster recovery activities
- Support network security controls and compliance requirements
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, standards and operational procedures
- Contribute towards continuous improvement initiatives across network operations and infrastructure services
- Configure and support network technologies including: Routing, Switching, Firewalls, VPNs, Wireless networking
Key Skills:
- Strong commercial experience operating within enterprise network engineering environments
- Proven experience supporting and troubleshooting complex network infrastructure
- Experience working with enterprise-grade networking equipment and technologies
- Good understanding of network security principles and operational best practice
- Experience supporting highly available and resilient environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to work effectively within fast-paced operational environments
- Desirable: Experience within government, healthcare or highly regulated environments
- Desirable: Exposure to cloud networking technologies within AWS and/or Azure environments
- Desirable: Familiarity with network monitoring and observability tooling
- Desirable: Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure environments
- Desirable: Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Routing and switching, Firewalls, VPN technologies
- Relevant networking certifications are a bonus, such as: CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA Network+, JNCIA
Salary (Rate): £65.00/hr
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Network Engineer
Network Engineer Contract (6-months) Remote Working Market Rates (c£500 to £550 per day)
The Opportunity:
We are currently supporting a leading public sector organisation in the search for an experienced Network Engineer to join their technology function on an initial 6-month contract basis for a major central government project (Government Digital Services / GDS). This is an excellent opportunity to support and enhance critical network infrastructure within a highly secure, mission-critical environment supporting nationally important services. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining network performance, availability and security across complex enterprise environments, while supporting infrastructure modernisation, operational resilience and continuous improvement initiatives.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Support, maintain and optimise enterprise network infrastructure across complex environments
- Monitor network performance, availability and security, proactively identifying and resolving issues
- Troubleshoot network incidents, outages and connectivity issues across multiple environments
- Support infrastructure upgrades, migrations and network improvement projects
- Work closely with infrastructure, security and operational teams to ensure reliable and secure network services
- Assist with network capacity planning, resilience and disaster recovery activities
- Support network security controls and compliance requirements
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, standards and operational procedures
- Contribute towards continuous improvement initiatives across network operations and infrastructure services
- Configure and support network technologies including: Routing Switching Firewalls VPNs Wireless networking
Skills and Experience:
- Strong commercial experience operating within enterprise network engineering environments
- Proven experience supporting and troubleshooting complex network infrastructure
- Experience working with enterprise-grade networking equipment and technologies
- Good understanding of network security principles and operational best practice
- Experience supporting highly available and resilient environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to work effectively within fast-paced operational environments
Desirable Experience:
- Experience within government, healthcare or highly regulated environments
- Exposure to cloud networking technologies within AWS and/or Azure environments
- Familiarity with network monitoring and observability tooling
- Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure environments
- Strong understanding of: TCP/IP DNS DHCP Routing and switching Firewalls VPN technologies
- Relevant networking certifications are a bonus, such as: CCNA CCNP CompTIA Network+ JNCIA
NB: The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic level of security clearance before undertaking the assignment (around two weeks’ lead-time).
Applications:
For further information on this role and some of the opportunities we have working as a Network Engineer on a major central government project (Government Digital Services), consulting on a remote working basis; please send your CV ASAP to James Sample or please call me on 07436 071 269 to discuss the opportunities in more detail. Please contact James here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology?