Network Engineer (SC Cleared)

Network Engineer
Location: Office - Barrow in Furness
Duration: 12/04/2026
MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

We are heading up a recruitment drive for a global consultancy that require a Network Engineer (SC Cleared) to join them on a major project that's based in in Barrow-in-Furness.

Role Description: 
Perform Level 2/3 Network incident diagnostics/resolution.
Network change & request implementation
Continue to strengthen and bolster your existing capabilities through a mix of professional training, certifications, and experiences. The role requires the candidate to be a part of our Network Performance Monitoring team, delivering and maintaining monitoring toolsets to the client. Embedded within the client's Network Analysis team, the candidate will monitor the client networks for performance issues utilising our toolsets to assist in investigations and conduct deep-dive analysis. Therefore, there will be periods where these monitoring devices will require repair, replacement and new builds and deployment out in the field.

Your skills and experience
Network performance monitoring - using application-level traffic monitoring and also low level packet capture to diagnose network issues
Gather requirements, documentation of designs, installations and build documents
Software installation and server builds
Physical server installation (Data Centres)
Generate scripts for automating functions and interfacing systems such as Rest API etc
Review and test new software versions in a lab/dev environment
Gain knowledge of networking concepts (Firewalls, VPN, load-balancing etc)
Gain knowledge in network packet sniffing and SNMP monitoring tools
Build dashboards for SOC/NOC end users using the current toolsets
Prepare and deliver demonstrations of toolsets to clients
Utilise end user experience monitoring tools
An awareness of virtualisation and containerisation technologies, such as VMWare, Docker and their function Working knowledge of Windows and Linux based operating systems
Server and PC hardware fundamentals
Basic networking/TCP/IP
Appreciation of enterprise class networking eg Juniper, Cisco
Virtualization (VMWare) and containerisation
Knowledge of Scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PowerShell and BASH Scripting