Senior Network Engineer
OpticoreIT
Opticore IT
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.
Opticore IT
are currently searching for a
Senior Network Engineer
to act as a senior technical anchor for a large enterprise financial services client, growing APAC networks capability, owning the connectivity, resilience and low-latency performance of trading-critical infrastructure across a 24x7 global estate. This is an initial 6 month contract insideIR35 with 2x days in central London. What you'll be doing: Own day-to-day network operations and change across the firm's sites, data centres and cloud environments
Lead on resilience and low-latency connectivity for trading-critical network paths
Lead incident response for network issues affecting trading infrastructure, through to root cause and remediation
Drive automation of network configuration, monitoring and validation using Python and Ansible
Manage and maintain routing and switching (BGP, OSPF), Palo Alto firewalls and Zscaler secure web services
Partner with the London and New York teams to align on global network standards
Support follow-the-sun coverage as part of a global operating model
Mentor and develop engineers as the India based team grows
What you'll bring: Deep, authoritative routing (BGP) and switching knowledge; able to design, troubleshoot and set standards for complex enterprise and data centre routing.
Enterprise / Data Centre Networking in Latency-Sensitive Environments
Confident designing, operating and troubleshooting Palo Alto firewalls and Zscaler secure web in production.
Network Automation & Monitoring (Python, Ansible)
Incident Response for Trading-Critical Infrastructure
Diversity: At
Opticore IT
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.
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.
Opticore IT
are currently searching for a
Senior Network Engineer
to act as a senior technical anchor for a large enterprise financial services client, growing APAC networks capability, owning the connectivity, resilience and low-latency performance of trading-critical infrastructure across a 24x7 global estate. This is an initial 6 month contract insideIR35 with 2x days in central London. What you'll be doing: Own day-to-day network operations and change across the firm's sites, data centres and cloud environments
Lead on resilience and low-latency connectivity for trading-critical network paths
Lead incident response for network issues affecting trading infrastructure, through to root cause and remediation
Drive automation of network configuration, monitoring and validation using Python and Ansible
Manage and maintain routing and switching (BGP, OSPF), Palo Alto firewalls and Zscaler secure web services
Partner with the London and New York teams to align on global network standards
Support follow-the-sun coverage as part of a global operating model
Mentor and develop engineers as the India based team grows
What you'll bring: Deep, authoritative routing (BGP) and switching knowledge; able to design, troubleshoot and set standards for complex enterprise and data centre routing.
Enterprise / Data Centre Networking in Latency-Sensitive Environments
Confident designing, operating and troubleshooting Palo Alto firewalls and Zscaler secure web in production.
Network Automation & Monitoring (Python, Ansible)
Incident Response for Trading-Critical Infrastructure
Diversity: At
Opticore IT
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.
Reference: WJCPA-5429_428036 · Posted 13 Nov 2026, 01:12 AM