Network Engineer (Hosting) | Cisco Nexus, ASA & F5 | Global Data Centre Infrastructure
- Rate: £400–£500 per day (Outside IR35)
- Length: 10-12 months
- Location: Windsor (Hybrid – 4 days per week on site
- Contract, full-time
We’re hiring a Network Engineer to join a growing hosting services team supporting high-availability, international data centre environments. This is a hands-on infrastructure role where you’ll take ownership of network performance, resilience, and security across multiple hosted platforms in a complex, SLA-driven environment. This is engineering depth, not first-line support.
With new hosted contracts driving expansion, you’ll step into a role offering genuine technical scope, exposure to global infrastructure, and long-term project work rather than short-term firefighting.
The Role
As a Network Engineer, you will play a key role in maintaining and evolving mission-critical network infrastructure. I n this role, you will:
- Provide expert-level support across data centre network environments
- Monitor, review, and report on network service levels, proactively addressing risks and negative trends
- Design and deploy robust routing, switching, firewall, and load-balancing solutions
- Implement and test disaster recovery and failover strategies
- Ensure 24x7 availability, capacity, and performance monitoring
- Maintain security compliance across all managed network components
- Produce and maintain clear documentation including diagrams, configurations, and operational procedures
- Collaborate with architects, project managers, vendors, and hosting teams
Identify and implement automation and service improvement initiatives
This is a delivery-focused infrastructure role combining operational responsibility with ongoing improvement work.
Non-Negotiables
- CCNP (Routing & Switching or Security)
- Strong Cisco data centre networking experience
- Hands-on experience with firewall rules, VPNs, routing protocols, and load balancing
- Experience operating within ITIL-driven 24x7 environments
- Strong troubleshooting capability across complex network estates
- Comfort working in security and compliance-heavy environments
What You’ll Work With
- Cisco Nexus 7000/9000 series
- Cisco ASR (100x)
- Cisco ASA & ASAv (Multi-context)
- F5 LTM & GTM (DNS management / GLB)
- NX-OS & IOS
- OSPF, BGP, VRF
- VPC, HSRP, STP
- IPSEC VPN & AnyConnect SSL VPN
- NAT & ACL configuration
- Intrusion detection & prevention systems
- Network monitoring tools (Nagios, Cacti preferred)
- Configuration management (Puppet preferred)
Nice to Haves
- Vendor management experience (Cisco, F5)
- Strong documentation discipline
- Automation mindset within infrastructure environments
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills
- Experience supporting global or multi-datacentre environments
Why Join / Projects
You’ll be supporting a globally distributed hosting function with multiple established data centres and further growth plans .
Projects include:
- Scaling network infrastructure to support new hosted clients
- Enhancing disaster recovery and failover capabilities
- Improving monitoring, automation, and operational efficiency
- Strengthening security compliance across international environments
This is a technically mature team where network engineering is taken seriously - you’ll have ownership, visibility, and the ability to influence how services evolve.
Network Engineer (Hosting) | Cisco Nexus, ASA & F5 | Global Data Centre Infrastructure
