Network Engineer
SBA are currently supporting our Central Government client, who are seeking a Senior Network Engineer on an initial 6 month + contract
Vacancies: 2
The Role
- Join a highly skilled engineering team supporting complex, business-critical enterprise network environments.
- Provide 3rd-line support across routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, wireless and remote-access technologies.
- Design, implement and support secure, resilient networks across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
- Drive Network Automation, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Develop automated network deployment and configuration solutions using Ansible, Python/PowerShell, Git and REST APIs.
- Integrate network provisioning and configuration into CI/CD pipelines.
- Support monitoring, observability, capacity planning, performance optimisation and continuous service improvement.
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience as a Senior Network Engineer within complex enterprise environments.
- Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, NAT, QoS and VLSM.
- Strong experience with LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, VPNs, OSPF and BGP.
- Hands-on experience across routing, switching, firewalls, wireless and load balancing.
- Strong Ansible experience, including playbooks, roles, inventories and automation workflows.
- Scripting experience with Python, PowerShell or Bash.
- Experience with Git, REST APIs, JSON/YAML, IaC and CI/CD.
- Experience supporting on-premises and cloud networking, resilience, high availability and disaster recovery.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience working within ITSM/change-controlled environments.
Desirable
- AWS, Azure and/or GCP networking experience.
- Software Defined Networking (SDN) experience.
- Previous experience within highly regulated or security-conscious environments.
- Flexibility for occasional out-of-hours work and travel between sites.
Clearance: Active SC clearance (willing to attain DV level vetting)