Network Design Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 24 March 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

VXLAN/EVPN DC network design Office/campus wired network design Wireless network design BOM generation HLD/LLD creation

FULL DESCRIPTION

Network Design Engineer

Create the HLDs and LLDs to replace wired and wireless networks in our client's London office, as well as the DC Networks in 2 Data Centres.

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Network Design Engineer

[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] are currently searching for a Network Design Engineer to join our enterprise Financial Services client to create the required HLD and LLD to replace the wired and wireless networks in their London office and the DC Networks in 2x Data Centre spaces.

[Employer hidden] is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors, including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.

This is a Hybrid opportunity with a minimum of 2 days a week in the office.

What you'll be doing:

  • Working as part of a project team, including a technical lead consultant and project manager on the technical aspects of the design phase of the project
  • Work with stakeholders, including the existing network team and members of the wider IT team, to define and agree requirements and identify potential issues
  • Support the definition and creation of the high-level design
  • Lead the creation of one or more LLDs (Office wired, wireless and/or DC) and support the generation of a ‘no-regrets’ BOM
  • Support the definition of a high-level migration plan
  • Support the client’s creation of a business case for the implementation phase

What you'll bring:

  • VXLAN/EVPN-based DC network design, including associated management platforms
  • Office/campus wired network design
  • Wireless network design
  • Experience generating BOMs

What you’ll gain:

Here at OpticoreIT we believe in investing in our team as we understand that we are only as great as our engineers, so learning and development is a big deal for us. Whether you’re going for a CCNP, CCIE, Hashicorp, Python, Cloud Technology or anything in between [Employer hidden] has your back with all our training, labs, courses, and shared knowledge and the most important part it’s all free! On top of that, we also give you:

  • Competitive Salary & discretionary bonus
  • 23 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Private healthcare & dental
  • Pension
  • EV car, workplace nursery, tech, and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes
  • Team & Company Social events
  • EMI share scheme

Diversity:

At [Employer hidden] we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.

Department: Networks

Role: Senior Network Engineer

Locations: London

Employment type: Full-time

Job Type: Hybrid

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