Network Engineering Specialist (Data)

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
Leiston
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Information Technology
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Cisco LAN WAN solutions WLAN solutions Network Engineering Incident Management Customer Relationships Cabling Installation

FULL DESCRIPTION

Job Category: Information Technology

Contract Partner Company: Vodafone

Employing Company: [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

Location:  Leiston – Full time site based role  

Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits 

Working Hours: Monday –> Friday 37.5 hours per week + stand by rota

Security Clearance: This position requires the person to hold or to be eligible to undergo UK Security Clearance (SC) clearance.

What you’ll do

Working in a team of like-minded and highly skilled Network Engineers, the primary focus for this role is installation & delivery of reliable LAN, WLAN and WAN solutions using a wide range of products from data vendors including: Cisco and Vodafone for one of Vodafone’s largest Enterprise and Global customers.

Duties include:

  • Ability to act as on-site technical support for Vodafone LAN/WAN/Wifi technologies and as a point of contact for customer Hands-on build activity to stage, commission and install new network equipment.
  • On-site installation and maintenance
  • Incident Management (Technology and Solution based).
  • Root Cause analysis for major incidents and escalated faults Ensure all work is risk-assessed with the production  and maintenance of H&S Compliant documentation (RAMs and Point of Works Risk Assessment).
  • Production of customer site and solution network documentation.
  • Monitor progress of activities within each project; providing regular updates to Leads, management and key stakeholders.
  • Provides 1st/ 2nd line support to resolve user faults and carry out changes on the networks.

Who you are

  • Extensive field experience including cabling and installation of networking equipment.- Essential 
  • Experience working with (configuring and implementing) predominantly Cisco LAN, WLAN and WAN solutions in an enterprise environment- Essential 
  • Ability to develop strong customer relationships as well as functioning in a team environment- Essential 
  • Knowledge of and exposure to multi-technology Solutions.
  • A broad understanding of the other technologies these solutions are dependent on.
  • Ability to achieve and maintain high level Security Clearance (SC)
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