Location: London (and remote working)
Salary: Contracted on £400 - £600 per day
Benefits: Private Medical Insurance
Start Date: ASAP
Reports to: Head of Technical Operations
Hours of work: Full time
Experience: 10+ Years in networking
Language: English (required)

BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with software-defined storage platforms (e.g. Cloudian, QuantaStor).
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud networking (including AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute).
• Certifications such as CCNP, JNCIS or equivalents.

THE ROLE

Are you a networking genius with 10 years of experience supporting and enhancing networks and infrastructure?
If you’re up to date with the latest networking technologies and hungry for a new challenge in our data centre, join us to support this exciting project and help develop a high-performance network.
You’ll be able to forge new relationships quickly and win the trust and respect of the team. You’ll work hand-in-hand with these internal teams to design, build, optimise and initially maintain robust and secure networking systems, supporting our core business services.
This is your chance to step into a role where strategy meets action, where your impact is seen (and felt) across the business. You won’t just be networking – you’ll be influencing, collaborating and elevating the entire customer journey.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, deploy and maintain datacentre networking infrastructure, including layer 2 and layer 3 topologies.
• Manage and optimize MPLS and VPLS networks, including configuring edge and core routers.
• Provision and manage cross-connects between infrastructure providers and peering partners.
• Configure and administer firewalls, including rules, VPNs, HA and traffic shaping.
• Manage enterprise switching environments, specifically:
• Mellanox switches for high-throughput and low-latency workloads.
• Meraki switches for cloud-managed network segments.
• Collaborate with systems and platform teams to support scalable and fault-tolerant deployments.
• Ensure high levels of network security, redundancy and compliance.
• Create documentation of network topology, configuration standards and troubleshooting procedures.
• Assist with migrations, incident response and performance tuning across hybrid networking environments.