Network Engineer (Telephony) Edinburgh

Network Engineer (Telephony/Analogue Services) - 12-Month Contract (Outside IR35) - Eddinburgh

Rate: £400-£500 per day (Outside IR35) Contract: 12 months Location: Edinburgh base with travel across Scotland Expenses: Use of own van required - mileage/travel expensed via Ltd company

Overview

We are supporting one of our main public sector clients with a nationwide programme across a large, multi-site estate. They require an experienced Network Engineer with strong telephony and analogue line expertise to support infrastructure, service identification and live testing activity across Scotland.

This is a hands-on, field-based role, working independently across customer sites while collaborating closely with IT and operational colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, trace and test analogue telephone services across a national estate
• Maintain accurate records relating to identification and testing activity, reporting back to project stakeholders
• Identify customer-premises equipment associated with analogue line delivery and presentation
• Understand services utilising analogue lines (eg alarm lines, lift lines)
• Trace cabling from supplier/core presentation to endpoint equipment
• Apply best-practice testing approaches to live analogue services
• Troubleshoot physical network site infrastructure issues
• Support high-availability network environments

Essential Skills & Experience

• In-date Cisco CCNA or CCNP qualification (mandatory)
• Proven, up-to-date hands-on experience with Cisco equipment including:
  • 2960X/XR
  • 4500
  • 9000 series
  • Nexus Switches
• Experience building, managing and maintaining high-availability Cisco networks
• Strong troubleshooting capability across physical network site infrastructure
• Strong working knowledge of analogue telephony services, including:
  • How analogue services are presented into customer premises
  • Identifying analogue-related equipment in comms rooms/cabinets
  • Understanding analogue-dependent services (alarms, lift lines, etc.)
  • Tracing and testing live analogue services safely

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.