Network Engineer
Permanent – Hybrid
Greater Manchester
Join a high‑performing technology function responsible for the resilience, performance, and evolution of critical network services across a fast‑moving, multi‑site organisation. As a Network Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and delivering network‑focused projects, optimising complex, high‑availability environments, and supporting day‑to‑day operational activities that keep the business running smoothly.
This is a collaborative team with a supportive, close‑knit culture — a place where people enjoy working together, share knowledge openly, and step in to help one another when challenges arise. Everyone has a voice, and contributions are both encouraged and valued, whether resolving a major incident, shaping technical decisions, or improving best‑practice.
Key Responsibilities
• Ensure the availability and stability of core infrastructure and network services.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and escalate across a broad range of networking products and hardware.
• Identify performance bottlenecks in complex network environments and drive optimisation activities.
• Produce clear procedural documentation for all end‑users.
• Handle escalated customer or business issues at the appropriate technical level.
• Campion collaboration in the support & resolution of complex technical and business challenges.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and project teams to share insight, develop ideas, and contribute to delivery.
Skills & Experience Required
• Strong knowledge of enterprise‑grade network hardware, specifically Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls (Catalyst, Nexus, ISR, ASR, ASA).
• Deep knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls, with demonstrable maintenance & deployment experience.
• Hands‑on experience with Cisco IOS, VLANs, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.
• Experience with modern wireless solutions (ideally Meraki).
• Familiarity with WAN point‑to‑point links and MPLS.
• Familiarity with VPN; SSL & IPSEC.
• Exposure to Monitoring systems like SolarWinds or Zabbix and understanding of Zero Trust environments.
Key Information
Visa sponsorship is not available at this time.
Hybrid working requires candidates to live within a reasonable commuting distance.
Rewards & Benefits
• Competitive salary aligned with experience
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank hols, plus volunteer days
• Pension & life assurance options
• Training & Development Academy
• Enhanced policies for Maternity, Paternity, Adoption
• Opportunities for flexible working
• A range of opt-in-options, such as Private Medical, Dental etc
• A range of life-style and high-street discount options
Keyword Terminology
Networking Engineer, Networking Specialist, Networking, Cisco, Palo Alto, Firewalls, Routing & Switching, Catalyst, Nexus, ISR, ASR, ASA, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, High‑Availability, Meraki, MPLS, WAN, VPN, SSL, IPSEC, Infrastructure, Troubleshooting, Operational Support, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE
Service Support Engineer (Senior)
Permanent – Hybrid
Manchester
Join a global technology driven organisation as part of a high performing Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering function, supporting complex digital platforms used across financial markets worldwide. As a Senior Service Engineer, you will embed directly with development squads across the UK and US, driving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across critical production services — including new AI powered platforms.
This is an opportunity to combine deep technical engineering with strategic influence, enabling cloud native, modern deployment patterns, and AI enhanced operations within a mature, forward looking engineering environment.
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About the Team
Service Reliability brings together Site Reliability, DevOps, Security and Applications Support engineering into one group working within a broader Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering function. The team provides subject matter expertise across cloud technologies, systems engineering, DevOps tooling, infrastructure automation, and platform reliability.
Your work will focus on improving service quality for major production systems, while partnering closely with engineering squads delivering new AI capabilities and mission critical digital services.
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Key Responsibilities
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Skills & Experience required
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Highly desired experience includes:
KEY NFO:
**Visa sponsorship is not available at this time
**Hybrid working will require the successful candidate to reside within a reasonable commutable distance.
Rewards & Benefits
In addition to a strong salary linked to experience:
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Keyword Terminology
SRE, Service Reliability Engineering, Applications Support, Applications Engineering, DevOps, SecDevOps, Platform Engineering, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Windows, IIS, .NET, Java, Spring Boot, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Python, PowerShell, Bash, Datadog, Observability, SLIs, SLOs, Bedrock, SageMaker, MCP, OPA, IAM, Cloud Security, Infrastructure Automation, AI enabled Operations, Container Security
