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Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

On site

Knutsford, United kingdom

£ 400 /day

Senior

Freelance

14-10-2025

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Skills

Go Architecture Risk Identification

Job Specifications

Role:Senior Network Engineer
Location:Knutsford, Cheshire - Hybrid 2-3 days onsite
Duration:9 months
Rate:PS400 per day - Outside IR35/Limited Company
Standard hours:Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm

Role
Are you a Senior Network Engineer ready to go beyond day-to-day operations and make a lasting impact on enterprise network infrastructure? This is your opportunity to transition into a more strategic, architecture-focused role - where your technical expertise will contribute to the high and low level design of a global network transformation programme.

As Senior Network Engineer, you must possess strong MPLS, WAN, MAN and VPN expertise (commercial experience of VPN over MPLS is essential).
You will be auditing, documenting and analysing the existing MPLS environment and then acting as a technical advocate during a MPLS to SD-WAN/SASE migration.

This is not a hands-on configuration role, but a discovery, documentation, traffic analysis and design adjudication role.

Responsibilities

Perform passive network discovery and audit of a MPLS environment
Build and document network topology, configuration and traffic maps
Estimate and validate QoS/CoS policies through traffic analysis
Review and technically challenge high and low-level designs
Provide expert input on MPLS, VPN, SD-WAN and SASE for design reviews
Support the Project Manager with risk identification and continuity planning Skills & Experience

Proven experience in MPLS (Layer 3 VPN, label switching), WAN/MAN, VPNs
Experience of VPN over MPLS
Ability to audit networks where direct config access is limited
Strong knowledge of traffic analysis, QoS/CoS, and topology mapping
Familiarity with Fortinet SD-WAN and SASE concepts
Experience in large-scale enterprise/global networks
Strong documentation and stakeholder engagement skills

About the Company

Founded in 2003, Solutions Through Knowledge (STK) has quickly developed a UK-wide reputation for offering a highly personalised and professional service to IT professionals – clients and candidates alike. We are well-known and respected in the industry, not only because of our extensive specialist experience within the IT sector, but also for our proactive approach in finding innovative recruitment solutions for a varied client-base within the UK. We are good listeners and can therefore respond intelligently to your brief... Know more