Network Engineer - SC Cleared - 5 days per week on site

Network Engineer
Location: Office - Barrow In Furness LA14 1AF
Duration: 31/12/2025
MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

We are heading up a recruitment drive for a global consultancy that require a XXX to join them on a major government project that's based remotely.

Inputting into High Level Designs
Creating Low Level designs from approved High Level Designs
Configuring core infrastructure components eg Data Centre Fabric, Access/Distribution Switches, Routers, WAN, Firewalls, load balancers, Authentication Servers, Wifi controllers, management tooling.
Performing impact assessments on large or complex networks.
Performing testing to pre-determined plans and analyse results.
Planning survey's/surveying for cross/site distribution areas ( Fibre ) - checking for cabling power/space (photo's to be taken)
Installing new SDA Switches in readiness for OOH work for installation/take on and testing of kit, providing ELS and decom/removal of old Switches Installation/take on and testing of new SDA kit

Key Skills
o Network Architecture/Architecture (Compute/storage/End User)
o Working in secure environments
o Network Design (HLD/LLD)
o Cisco Networking (Routing/Switching)
o Data Centre Networking
o Cisco ACI
o Firewalls (Palo Alto/Cisco)
o Authentication (802.1x/Cisco ISE/AD familiarity)
o Network management
o Load balancing (Netscaler)
o Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access)
o Meraki
o Wifi
o Remote access
o Encryption"