Senior Network Engineer - Telecommunications

Ready to power the East of England with next-generation broadband?

Join a telecommunications company expanding full‑fibre 1 Gigabit networks to homes and businesses. The company focuses on delivering seamless, high-speed connectivity while reducing frustrations with slow or unreliable connections. Team members work on large-scale infrastructure projects, gain hands-on experience in a growing network, and help improve digital access for local communities.

They are seeking three highly experienced Senior Network Engineers to support a series of complex network projects. This role requires genuinely senior, hands-on engineers with deep technical expertise and the ability to own delivery across the full lifecycle, from design through to implementation, migration, and operational handover.

Shape the future of connectivity. Apply now!

Key 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

Required Experience & 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

Desirable Skills:

• 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
• 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

Contract Details:

• Location: Remote (UK-based)
• IR35 Status: Outside IR35
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months

Salary:

• Rate: £450–£550 per day