Senior Cisco Network Engineer

Senior Cisco Network EngineerLocation: Leicester , UK (Hybrid)Salary: Up to £60,000 + Benefits

This is a hands-on senior engineering role where you’ll become the technical escalation point for an experienced infrastructure team, providing expert guidance on complex Cisco networking challenges while helping shape the future of a business-critical network estate.

Supporting an environment of over 7,000 endpoints, 1,600+ Cisco LAN devices and 220+ WAN links, you’ll play a key role in maintaining, optimising and evolving a predominantly Cisco network.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Act as the senior technical escalation point for Network and Infrastructure Engineers.




• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to engineers working across the Cisco estate.




• Configure, maintain and optimise Cisco network infrastructure across a large multi-site environment.




• Design, implement and troubleshoot complex LAN, WAN and Wireless networking solutions.




• Lead the resolution of high-level networking incidents and provide 3rd line support.




• Deliver network upgrades, migrations and infrastructure improvement projects.




• Strengthen network resilience, performance and security.




• Work closely with internal teams and third-party vendors to deliver successful projects.

Essential Experience

This role is heavily weighted towards advanced Cisco networking within a large enterprise environment. We’re looking for someone with extensive hands-on experience across Cisco technologies who can confidently lead from a technical standpoint.

• Advanced Cisco routing and switching experience.




• Strong commercial experience supporting enterprise LAN, WAN and Wireless networks.




• Advanced practical experience with BGP, OSPF and EIGRP in production environments.




• Strong understanding of network security best practices.




• CCNA, CCNP or equivalent commercial experience.




• Advanced experience with Cisco Firepower Management Centre (FMC).




• Advanced experience with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE).




• Advanced experience with Cisco Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC).




• Advanced experience with Cisco Catalyst switching.




• Advanced experience with Cisco Wireless technologies.




• Experience operating within a large-scale enterprise network supporting thousands of endpoints and multiple sites.




• The ability to act as the senior escalation point, providing technical advice, guidance and leadership to experienced engineers across the team.

Desirable Experience

• VMware or Hyper-V.




• Storage Area Networks (SAN).




• Enterprise backup and disaster recovery solutions.




• Microsoft Active Directory, Windows Server, Exchange and SharePoint.




• Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.




• PowerShell, Ansible or Terraform.




• Cisco Unified Communications / VoIP.

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