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)