Senior Network Infrastructure Manager

Role:

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer Location:

Southampton (Hybrid Role) Salary:

£80,000

£100,000 Carrier-Grade Networking | High-Level Infrastructure Ownership | Progression Toward CTO Were recruiting for a

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer

to join a highly technical telecoms and communications environment where network performance, resilience, and uptime are absolutely critical to the wider business. This is an opportunity to step into a senior position within a company that runs its own infrastructure estate, supports business-critical voice and communications services, and places genuine value on strong engineering ownership. This role is ideal for an experienced network professional who wants more than just BAU support. Youll play a key role in maintaining and evolving a complex multi-site network environment, supporting core infrastructure that underpins real-world production services. From routing, switching, peering, and BGP through to resilience planning, incident response, and infrastructure improvement projects, youll be heavily involved in both the day-to-day operation and long-term development of the network estate. Youll work closely with senior leadership and technical teams, acting as a key escalation point while helping to drive standards, performance, and operational stability across the environment. The role offers the chance to work across

carrier-grade networking, high-availability telecoms platforms, on-prem infrastructure, and network architecture , making it a strong move for someone looking to continue progressing into a broader infrastructure leadership or future

CTO-level

pathway. Required Skills: Strong experience in a

Senior Network Engineer / Network Infrastructure Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer

role Proven background working within

carrier-grade, ISP, telecoms, or highly available production network environments Strong hands-on experience with

BGP, routing, peering, failover, redundancy, and traffic engineering Strong knowledge of

MikroTik RouterOS and/or Juniper Junos Experience supporting complex

network infrastructure across multi-site environments Strong understanding of

switching, firewalls, WAN connectivity, IP networking, and routing policy management Experience with

incident management, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting live production outages Strong documentation skills across network diagrams, SOPs, technical processes, and infrastructure standards Ability to work closely with senior stakeholders, technical teams, and wider operations functions Telecoms, UC, or service provider experience would be highly desirable Exclusive Benefits: £80,000

£100,000 Salary Opportunity to work within a

carrier-grade telecoms and infrastructure environment Exposure to

BGP, peering, RIPE, resilient multi-site networking, and high-availability telecoms services Involvement in infrastructure upgrades, network optimisation, resilience planning, and strategic technical projects Senior-level ownership within a business-critical networking environment Clear progression pathway into

Infrastructure Leadership / Head of Infrastructure / CTO Hybrid working with Southampton office and data centre exposure Annual performance bonus linked to uptime and operational KPIs Private medical insurance Company pension 21 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays + Birthday off Cycle to work scheme Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Company events, employee discounts, and additional office perks If youre a

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer

looking for a role where you can work on

carrier-grade infrastructure, take ownership of critical networking environments, and position yourself for long-term progression into senior technical leadership , click

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