Senior Network Engineer - Telecommunications

Project overview

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Join a full fibre broadband provider that believes great connectivity should simply work, delivering multi-gigabit services to homes and businesses across the East of England and the East and West Midlands. With speeds of up to 5 Gbps, UK-based customer support, and a focus on reliability, the organization is building a portfolio of connected services designed to future-proof its customers.

The company is currently on the lookout for a Senior Network Engineer to support a series of complex network projects. The ideal candidate will be a genuinely senior, hands-on engineer who owns delivery across the full lifecycle, from design through implementation, migration, and operational handover, across complex enterprise or carrier-grade environments. Strong technical judgement, autonomy, and accountability are essential.

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity and apply today!

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to network design, implementation, and migration activities
• Own technical delivery across projects, ensuring quality and reliability
• Work across multi-vendor, complex network environments
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Support network transformation and migration programmes
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and transition into operations
• Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation

Requirements

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Desirable Skills:

• Proven experience operating at a senior/principal network engineering level
• Certification level equivalent to CCIE / JNCIE (or demonstrable experience at this level)
• Strong hands-on experience across:
• Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, etc.)
• Data centre and enterprise network architectures
• Network migrations and transformation programmes
• Experience working in complex enterprise or carrier-grade environments
• Ability to work across the full network lifecycle:
• Design
• Implementation
• Migration
• Troubleshooting
• Operational transition
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to operate independently
• Experience delivering within project-driven environments
• A true senior engineer, not limited to a narrow technical domain
• Comfortable taking ownership of technical delivery
• Strong communicator with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused, and able to work in fast-paced project environments
• Exposure to multi-vendor environments (e.g. Cisco, Juniper, Arista)
• Experience with network automation or programmability (Python, Ansible, etc.)
• Familiarity with cloud networking (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Previous experience in large-scale transformation or migration programmes

Project details

Salary:

• Fully remote role (UK-based candidates preferred)
• Outside IR35 engagement
• Immediate start preferred
• £400 Per Day
• £450 Per Day
• Start: flexible
• Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, GB
• Rate: 50-56 EUR/h