Senior HPE Aruba Network Engineer — NOC / 3rd Line, £50,000–£70,000, Newbury or Northampton
£50,000–£70,000 + on-call allowance | Newbury or Northampton | Hybrid (3 days/week)
Our client is a well-established technology services business with a large HPE Aruba customer base. They're looking for a Senior HPE Aruba Network Engineer to join their NOC team — providing 3rd line support across wireless, switching, and ClearPass environments for a broad portfolio of enterprise customers.
ClearPass is the hardest skill to find and the most important. Around 80% of the customer base has ClearPass integrated. If you've got the full Aruba trifecta — wireless, switching, and ClearPass hands-on — this role is for you.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- Provide 3rd line NOC support across HPE Aruba wireless, switching, and ClearPass environments
- Own complex escalations — hands-on configuration and troubleshooting, not just monitoring
- Manage and support ClearPass deployments across a large, varied enterprise customer base
- Work across Aruba switching and wireless infrastructure — configuration, fault resolution, and optimisation
- Contribute to a low-volume on-call rota — 1 in 5 weeks, with very few actual call-outs
- Develop skills across Fortinet, Cisco, and Cradlepoint over time — structured growth path in place
- No customer site visits — this is a NOC-based role
TECH STACK
- HPE Aruba ClearPass (priority — ~80% of customers have it integrated)
- HPE Aruba Wireless
- HPE Aruba Switching
- Fortinet (beneficial)
- Juniper Firewall (beneficial)
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Hands-on HPE Aruba experience across wireless, switching, and ClearPass — all three together is the goal
- ClearPass expertise is the standout requirement — NAC, 802.1X, and policy management in production
- Hands-on configuration background essential — monitoring-only profiles are not suitable for this role
- Partner-side or managed service background preferred — strong field/deployment engineers also considered
- Aruba certifications (ACCP, ACMP) preferred but not required
- Fortinet or Juniper firewall experience is a nice-to-have
- Commutable to Newbury or Northampton — full-time onsite for first 3 months, then 3 days/week flexible
THE PACKAGE
- £50,000–£70,000 base salary depending on experience
- On-call allowance paid on top of salary — 1 in 5 rota, very low actual call volume
- Full-time onsite for first 3 months — then drops to 3 days/week with flexibility
- Newbury or Northampton office locations
- Structured development path — Cisco, Fortinet, and Cradlepoint training in-house over time
WHY THIS ROLE STANDS OUT
- ClearPass expertise is rare and this role pays properly for it — £70k ceiling for the right person
- NOC-based — no site visits, no van, no living out of hotels
- On-call is genuinely low volume — 1 in 5 with very few actual call-outs
- Clear growth path — Cisco and Fortinet development built into the role over time
- Varied enterprise customer base — 80%+ with ClearPass, keeping the work technically interesting
- Hybrid after the initial period — sensible onboarding with long-term flexibility built in
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