Senior Network Engineer

The Brand

Join a nationally recognised UK retail organisation investing heavily in modern cloud and network infrastructure. With a hybrid estate spanning Azure, datacentres, corporate offices, and a large retail footprint, the business is driving a major network modernisation programme focused on resilience, performance, and security. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape enterprise and retail connectivity at scale.

The Role

As Senior Network Engineer, you’ll design, secure, and operate network infrastructure across Azure and on-prem environments. You’ll own hybrid connectivity, SD-WAN, retail store networking, firewalls, and core routing architecture ensuring high availability and performance across corporate and retail operations. This is a hands-on engineering role with real architectural influence.

The Person

• Strong Azure networking experience (VNets, routing, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute)

• Enterprise LAN/WAN expertise (Cisco, Meraki, Aruba, Juniper or similar)

• Experience supporting retail store networks, POS/tills, and Wi-Fi environments

• Firewall management (Palo Alto, Fortinet, SonicWall) including HA and SD-WAN

• Deep routing and switching knowledge (BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP)

• Experience designing hybrid Azure/on-prem connectivity

• Strong troubleshooting and packet analysis skills (Wireshark, diagnostics tools)

• Familiarity with network security, segmentation, and PCI-aligned environments

• Exposure to automation (Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI) desirable