Network Engineer
SF Partners · Ladywood, Birmingham ·
- Category
- Network engineering
Salary: £60,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong enterprise networking experience across routing and switching
- Knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRRP/HSRP and Spanning Tree
- Strong understanding of QoS, Multicast, IPv4/IPv6 and high availability networking
- Experience with switching platforms
- Modern data centre networking exposure including EVPN, VXLAN, MLAG and leaf-spine architectures
- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills across routing, switching, firewalls and connectivity
- Experience working within secure or air-gapped environments
- Strong customer-facing communication skills with the ability to take ownership of technical projects
- Eligibility for MOD DV/STRAP clearance
- Full UK driving licence
- Willingness to travel to customer sites
- Take ownership of the design, implementation, configuration and support of complex enterprise network infrastructure
- Attend customer sites to deliver installations, upgrades, network audits and technical health checks
- Deliver secure, high-performance networking solutions across business-critical and highly secure environments
- Work within national infrastructure as part of a close-knit technical team
- Combine hands-on engineering with customer engagement
- Solve complex technical problems and support technical projects end to end
- Support
- Network
- Ansible
- Cisco
- Linux
- VMware
More:
We are a high-growth technology organisation based in South Birmingham, working within national infrastructure to deliver secure, high-performance networking solutions. You will join a close-knit technical team in a hands-on, technically challenging environment with excellent progression opportunities, autonomy, and exposure to modern data centre technologies. We also offer a generous starting salary, mileage allowance for customer site travel, a private pension scheme, bonus scheme, private healthcare, training budget and time allocation, and 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
last updated 42 week of 2026