Top Network Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Design, implement, support, and optimize enterprise datacenter and campus networking infrastructure. Maintain network security (firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs), perform troubleshooting and capacity planning, document network diagrams and SOPs, install and rack network hardware, participate in on-call rotation and travel to datacenters, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Responsible for designing, implementing and supporting networking solutions across multiple sites, maintaining firewalls, routing and security policies, troubleshooting outages and circuits, performing capacity planning and monitoring, ensuring compliance with public-sector security standards, participating in on-call rotation, and travelling to UK (and occasional international) sites.

Design, maintain, and optimize HLR/HSS/UDM subscriber templates and roaming logic. Lead Full MVNO profile deployments, collaborate with roaming partners and system integrators, define HLR/HSS KPIs, and troubleshoot signalling using Wireshark and roaming platforms.

Build and design proxy infrastructure from scratch, implement rotation systems, manage IP reputation, optimize for performance, and develop reverse proxy systems for various proxy types.

Implement, test, deploy, troubleshoot and maintain REST API and SIP telecom solutions. Monitor and tune infrastructure for high availability, develop test automation, perform packet/protocol analysis, support deployments and upgrades, participate in Tier 3 on-call rotation, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.

Contract Data Centre Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate high-performance data centre networks (leaf-spine, EVPN/VXLAN), manage routing (BGP/OSPF), automate configurations (Python/Ansible/Terraform), troubleshoot network and Linux systems, support Kubernetes networking, and contribute to monitoring, documentation, and capacity planning for AI/GPU infrastructure.

Lead availability, reliability, and continuous improvement of the Connectivity platform. Use monitoring and telemetry to detect and resolve service issues, drive automation and process optimisation, collaborate across teams and partners, contribute to platform strategy and roadmaps, and support major incident resolution.

Support commissioning, validation and transition of customer network services into BAU. Perform wireless and end-to-end network testing, onboard access points, switches and routers, produce handover documentation, and work with Project Managers, Commissioning Engineers, Provisioning and NOC to ensure operational readiness and quality standards.

Lead deployment and maintenance of UK Government network infrastructure (primarily Cisco), enhance security posture with SD-WAN, NGFWs, segmentation and content delivery, manage lifecycle and inventories, mentor engineers, drive project execution, and produce compliance and KPI reporting for senior leadership.

Lead availability, reliability and continuous improvement of the Connectivity platform. Monitor, diagnose and resolve service issues using telemetry and data. Build partner relationships, drive automation and process optimisation, contribute to roadmap and incident response, and support service transitions to meet business objectives.

The Senior Network Automation Engineer will enhance Perl code for network automation, maintain REST APIs, reduce technical debt, and support junior engineers.

Lead technical delivery of customer projects and act as technical lead on network faults and major incidents. Provide hands-on, customer-facing support for enterprise SD‑WAN, LAN/WLAN, and security solutions; troubleshoot high-pressure incidents, manage escalations and change requests, and maintain technical documentation. Requires UK site travel and occasional out-of-hours work.