Senior Network Engineer (Inside IR35, Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto)

Company: Xcede
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Location: London
Job Description:

A global financial markets firm needs a Senior Network Engineer to support latency-sensitive trading infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. The role covers customer connectivity, complex troubleshooting, and building the automation and observability tooling that keeps critical systems running. You’ll work across on-prem and cloud, with real ownership over production network infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Engineer and support customer connectivity across on-prem and cloud, including circuit provisioning, AWS networking, and VPN
  • Configure and deploy production changes across routing, firewall, and cloud network infrastructure
  • Troubleshoot complex environments (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, multicast, HSRP)
  • Provide real-time monitoring and incident response for global network infrastructure
  • Lead escalations and advanced troubleshooting across network, cloud, and infrastructure domains
  • Build automation, monitoring, and observability tooling via scripting and API integrations (Python)
  • Perform deep packet analysis and contribute to root cause investigations

What you’ll bring:

  • 5+ years’ network engineering experience across Cisco, Arista, and Palo Alto
  • Strong fundamentals in routing, switching, and firewall technologies (BGP, OSPF, Multicast)
  • Packet analysis experience (tcpdump, Wireshark, tshark)
  • Scripting or API-driven automation experience (Python)

Initial 6-month contract, with a significant pipeline of work in 2027.

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Posted: October 15th, 2026