Senior Network Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Infrastructure Services team in Peterborough. If you’re passionate about building dependable, modern networks and want to make a real impact across a large, collaborative organisation — this role is for you!

In this role, you will take ownership of monitoring, supporting, and evolving Bauer’s network infrastructure. You’ll use your expertise to keep services running smoothly, diagnose and resolve issues, and deliver improvements that strengthen our future network landscape. You will play a key part in supporting business-critical operations, leading on network changes, optimising performance, and delivering solutions that enable our teams to thrive. Your experience, insights and curiosity will help shape how we design and operate our networks going forward.

Our Team

You’ll be joining our friendly and supportive Network Team, a group known for helping each other, sharing knowledge, and always diving in when it matters. You’ll collaborate closely with Infrastructure colleagues across projects, incident response and operational support—every voice counts here, and your ideas will be welcomed.

Working Pattern / Location

This role is Peterborough-based with hybrid working.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of network projects (switch refreshes, firewalls, cloud connectivity).
• Identify and resolve performance issues across complex systems.
• Provide escalation support for network-related incidents.
• Produce clear procedural documentation for IT colleagues and customers.
• Work directly with carriers and third parties to resolve issues.
• Share knowledge across the team and contribute to project planning.

What We Are Looking For

• Extensive experience working independently with network technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Cisco hardware (Catalyst, Nexus, ISR, ASA) and Palo Alto firewalls.
• Confident using Cisco IOS, VLANs, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.
• Experience with WAN, MPLS, VPN (SSL & IPSEC), and wireless systems (e.g., Meraki).
• Familiar with monitoring tools (SolarWinds, Zabbix).
• Highly organised, collaborative and an excellent communicator.
• Analytical and methodical approach to troubleshooting.
• Comfortable working in high-availability environments.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more!

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That’s why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house. We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all.

If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk.

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.