Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Location: Leek Wootton (with travel across Warwickshire)
Contract: Permanent 
Hours: 37 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
Pay Rate: £50,949 - £57,186 £2,850 Market Supplement per annum

About the Role:
As a Network Engineer within the Digital Services function, you will design, build, and maintain secure, resilient network infrastructure supporting critical policing operations.
You’ll act as a subject matter expert, ensuring network performance, security, and compliance while driving continuous improvement and innovation across the environment.
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Support, maintain, and optimise network infrastructure (physical and virtual) to ensure high availability and performance
• Design and implement network solutions aligned to business and digital strategy
• Act as a technical subject matter expert across network configuration, security, and infrastructure
• Conduct impact assessments and assure quality of changes to existing systems
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, security requirements, and best practice
• Analyse business requirements and recommend scalable, cost-effective solutions
• Build strong relationships with suppliers, managed service providers, and partner organisations
• Contribute to continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of emerging technologies

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong experience supporting and delivering network infrastructure within a large, complex organisation
• Proven expertise in:
  
  • Cisco technologies
  • SD-WAN, VLANs, Azure vWAN
  • Static and dynamic routing
  • Network monitoring and management tools
• Experience with cloud networking (Azure and/or AWS)
• Ability to produce technical design documentation and service artefacts
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to assess risk and implement solutions
• Experience working with third-party suppliers and service providers
• Experience with Avaya telephony, Zscaler, SolarWinds, Sentinel
• Knowledge of ISO 20000 / IT Service Management frameworks

Apply Now Service Care Solutions is proud to assist in this recruitment campaign. If you meet the above criteria and would like to be considered, please apply now or reach out directly to discuss the role in more detail.
 
Harry Greenhalgh
Recruitment Lead – Defence
Service Care Solutions
harry.greenhalgh@servicecare.org.uk
01772 208962