Edge Networking Engineer (Contract) £550-600 per day | 6 months | Remote / Hybrid | Start: ASAP
The opportunity A leading national broadcaster is separating part of its business, and it needs experienced Edge Networking Engineers to make sure every retained site has clean, independent access infrastructure by Day 1.
You'll design, build, migrate and separate edge network services across a large estate of offices, production areas and broadcast environments. The work spans Cisco Catalyst 9000, Nexus and Meraki platforms, and you'll work closely with the core routing, automation and tooling, and platform/identity teams.
What you'll do Build and migrate site edge switching
Design and deploy Layer 2 access and distribution switching at retained sites, including office floors, build rooms and specialist environments
Migrate existing switch configurations to the new VLAN, addressing and uplink designs, with uplinks to the new core switches at each site
Configure distribution switching for production environments (storage, media production, transcoding) in coordination with core routing
Support production and broadcast networks
Deliver edge switching for media production platforms (Avid/Nexus), storage (Isilon/NAS), transcoding, and specialist news and broadcast production
Integrate production networks with the new routing domains, and migrate or re-home production edge stacks as the separation design requires
Deploy Meraki SD-WAN, LAN and wireless
Deploy and migrate Meraki MX (SD-WAN), MS (switching) and MR (wireless) at retained sites, including moves between Meraki organisations and networks
Manage Dashboard templates for multi-site standardisation
Deliver wireless and NAC
Deploy wireless on Meraki or Juniper Mist, migrate SSIDs and RADIUS policies to new identity services, and support surveys with Ekahau or similar
Configure 802.1X, MAB fallback, VLAN assignment and guest access on edge ports with NAC platforms such as Cisco ISE
Work with the identity team to separate authentication and authorisation policies and enforce entity boundaries
Clean up the divested estate
Remove retained-entity VLANs, SVIs and a...
Edge Networking Engineer in London employer: McGregor Boyall Associates
Join a forward-thinking AI technology company that values innovation and creativity, offering a fully remote work environment that promotes flexibility and work-life balance. With competitive salaries and a strong emphasis on employee growth, you'll have the opportunity to develop cutting-edge desktop applications while collaborating with a passionate team dedicated to transforming user experiences. This role not only allows you to enhance your technical skills but also to contribute to meaningful projects that make a real impact in the tech landscape.
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McGregor Boyall Associates Recruitment Team
