Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Rate: £375/day Outside IR35

Initial 3 months rolling contract with long-term plans for 15 months

Glasgow (2 Days/Week Onsite – may reduce over time)

A leading organisation is seeking a Network Engineer to support day-to-day BAU operations across Cisco, F5 (or alternatives) and Check Point (or alternatives) environments.

We're looking for someone with hands-on experience in enterprise networking and security, Firewalls and Load Balancers —not deep vendor-specific specialism.

Cisco Networking

• Switching & Routing
• Cisco Nexus (7k, VDC, FEX)
• OSPF, route maps, filters

Security Platforms

• Cisco ASA, Check Point, Palo Alto, Fortinet/FortiGate, Juniper SRX
• VPNs, Threat Prevention, Next-Gen Firewalls

Application Delivery / Load Balancing

• F5 LTM, APM, AFM, BIG-IP
• Alternatives: Citrix ADC/NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster, AWS/Azure/GCP Load Balancers, Nginx, HAProxy

Core Competencies

• Advanced troubleshooting across multi-vendor environments
• High proficiency in packet capture & analysis

Responsibilities

• Configure, maintain & troubleshoot Cisco switching, routing & Nexus platforms
• Manage firewalls and security solutions (Cisco ASA, Check Point, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper SRX)
• Implement and support F5 or alternative ADC/load balancing services
• Perform packet captures and deep-dive analysis
• Conduct network/security health checks & posture reviews
• Support wireless and WAN technologies
• Configure and maintain monitoring solutions (SolarWinds)