Senior Network Engineers
Outside IR35
£450 per day
Contract to December 2026
We are supporting our public sector client with the recruitment of a Senior Network Engineer with SC Clearance.
The role is required to be onsite 5 days per week in either Kidlington or Southampton, is outside IR35 and can pay up to £450 per day. The role will be until Decemeber 2026 so an excellent duration.
These roles require candidates with extensive experience as a Network Engineer, specifically with recent experience working with Cisco Routers & switchers.
Skills required:
- Good understanding of network infrastructure including voice
- Recently undertaken a role as a Network Administrator/Engineer role working with Cisco routers and switches
- Detailed understanding of Networking protocols and standards.
- Ability to demonstrate ticket management, prioritisation, change management, project delivery and working with large scale service providers
- Hold recognised IT Networking qualifications, specifically CCNA/CCNP (or higher) qualification
- Experience with the Tools / suite of tools essential to this role -
- Experience of SD-WAN migrations (preferred but not essential)
- Hands on experience of Fortinet products (preferred but not essential)
- Checkpoint
- Fortinet
- Cisco
- Solarwinds
- Ivanti Pulse (Pulse Secure)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical designs and principles to a non-technical audience.
- This role also requires a full UK drivers licence and the capacity to travel across multiple locations
If you are an SC cleared Network Engineer ready for a new Outside IR35 role please apply immediately.
Head Resourcing is committed to being an inclusive business where diversity is valued and celebrated. Diversity to us, includes but is not limited to educational background, socio-economic background, neurodiversity, age, marriage and civil partnership status, veteran status, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, race, and ethnicity. As such we welcome enquiries and applications from everyone. We will be happy discuss with you any workplace adjustments you need in order to be at your best during the recruitment process.
