Network Engineer - Consultancy

Hybrid in Merseyside·Full-time·Added today (last checked 13 Nov)

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Hamilton Barnes

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Our summary

Salary: £50,000 a year
About £3,290 a month after tax.
Work mode: Hybrid, Merseyside
Contract: Full-time

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

Fortinet FortiGate, FortiOS, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer
SD-WAN and multi-site customer networks
LAN, WAN and site-to-site VPNs
BGP, OSPF, VLANs and spanning tree
Cisco firewalls and Extreme Networks in parts of the customer estate
Experience configuring and troubleshooting FortiGate firewalls in production.
SD-WAN support experience with any vendor.
Strong routing and switching fundamentals and the ability to apply them to live faults.
Experience owning escalated network incidents in a NOC, managed services, telecoms or enterprise environment.
The ability to talk through a firewall fault you investigated, what you checked and how you confirmed the fix.

Nice to have

Experience with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer is valuable. Cisco or Extreme Networks experience would also be useful.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

On-call rota of one week in seven
£450 retainer per on-call week, plus hourly callout pay with a minimum of one hour per incident
2 Days WFH
£50,000 to £58,000 basic salary

The role

Keen to join a company that champions growth and development?

Join an award-winning IT services and solutions provider with decades of expertise spanning Cloud, Cybersecurity, IT Collaboration, Data Centre Services, and Sustainability. Holding top-tier partnerships with leading global technology vendors, the organization delivers integrated managed services and modern workplace infrastructure designed to optimize performance, security, and operational resilience for enterprise clients.

The company is seeking a Network Engineer to join its growing managed services operation in the North West. Taking ownership of incidents across live customer networks, the successful candidate will troubleshoot FortiGate firewalls and execute network changes and infrastructure upgrades to keep client environments secure and reliable.

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

What you'll do

Responsibilities

Take ownership of incidents escalated by first-line support, from initial investigation through to resolution.
Diagnose firewall, VPN, routing and connectivity faults across customer networks.
Troubleshoot SD-WAN incidents, including link failures and unexpected failover.
Carry out planned firewall changes and network upgrades, and verify that services are working afterwards.
Escalate complex faults to senior engineers with a clear summary of the impact, evidence and checks completed.
Support the Liverpool data centre, including physical patching when required.