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

Location:
City Of London, Greater London, South East, England
Salary:
£700 - £800 per day, Benefits: Hybrid working
Job Type:
Contract
Date Posted:
2 minutes ago
Expiry Date:
27/11/2026
Job Ref:
BH-128227-1
Start Date:
13/10/2026
Contact:
Matt O'Hare
Contact Email:
matt.ohare@xcede.com
Specialism:
Networks
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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