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Network Operations Engineer

Job details
Posting date: 06 January 2026
Salary: £44,447 to £52,442 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 19 January 2026
Location: NE98 1YX
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 441753/4

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Summary

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'

DWP have been carrying out a large technology transition over the past few years and there is still a long way to go.

Join the Network Service Operations team as Network Engineer in the next step to transform the DWPs datacentre and remote site network infrastructure into leading edge technologies.

We have several projects underway in Wi-Fi, On-Prem Datacentre and Cloud solutions that require skilled, self-sufficient, and determined engineers to drive improvements and good practices, as well as ensuring current legacy infrastructure remains stable.


You will:

  • Provide support for incident and problem resolution, this could involve out of hours work.
  • Implement BAU exercises, this could involve out of hours work.
  • Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organisation and 3rd-Parties suppliers.
  • Understand ITSM process with a focus on Incident, Problem and Accept into Service Management.
  • Conduct network monitoring and analysis tooling – e.g. BMC Entuity, Wireshark and NetScout
  • Have a strong technical knowledge in Cloud (AWS/Azure/OCI) and On-Prem Network Infrastructure, Next Generation Firewall, Load-balancing, and PKI technologies as well as experience with either Aruba Wifi/Clearpass or Spine and Leaf topologies/DC-VXLAN (Preferably Arista)

As well as this, if you have experience in the following it would be preferred but it is not essential as full training and development will be given;

  • Infrastructure as Code and Network Automation in Terraform, Ansible and Python
  • Formal qualifications for Aruba, Arista, AWS or Azure.

There is a requirement for you to work as part of a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week rota. This is on a week-by-week basis covering early mornings, days, evenings and overnight shifts (On call cover 5-7 days per month currently).

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