Aruba 3rd Line Network Engineer

• ClearPass expertise is rare and this role pays properly for it. £70k ceiling for the right person
• NOC-based. No site visits, no van, no living out of hotels
• On-call is genuinely low volume. 1 in 5 with very few actual call-outs
• Clear growth path. Cisco and Fortinet development built into the role over time
• Varied enterprise customer base. 80%+ with ClearPass, keeping the work technically interesting
• Hybrid after the initial period. Sensible onboarding with long-term flexibility built in
• £50,000-£70,000 base salary depending on experience

Keen to join a company that champions growth and development?

Join a strategic IT partner for consultancy, procurement, and implementation, working with customers to understand their environment and goals, design tailored solutions, and give visibility of current trends and future technologies. Operating across Europe, it offers a single procurement platform with simple delivery and full visibility of spend, supported by extensive vendor partnerships.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Network Engineer to join the NOC team of a well-established technology services business, providing 3rd line support across wireless, switching, and network access control environments for a broad portfolio of enterprise customers. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience across all three areas, with network access control the most important and hardest skill to find, as around 80% of the customer base has it integrated.

Ready to take your expertise to the next level? Get in touch today!

• Provide 3rd line NOC support across HPE Aruba wireless, switching, and ClearPass environments
• Own complex escalations, hands-on configuration and troubleshooting, not just monitoring
• Manage and support ClearPass deployments across a large, varied enterprise customer base
• Work across Aruba switching and wireless infrastructure, configuration, fault resolution, and optimisation
• Contribute to a low-volume on-call rota, 1 in 5 weeks, with very few actual call-outs
• Develop skills across Fortinet, Cisco, and Cradlepoint over time, structured growth path in place
• No customer site visits, this is a NOC-based role
• HPE Aruba ClearPass (priority, ~80% of customers have it integrated)
• HPE Aruba Wireless
• HPE Aruba Switching
• Fortinet (beneficial)
• Juniper Firewall (beneficial)

• Commutable to Newbury or Northampton, full-time onsite for first 3 months, then 3 days/week flexible
• Full-time onsite for first 3 months, then drops to 3 days/week with flexibility
• Newbury or Northampton office locations