Network Engineer - Chester

Summary

Network Engineer role in Chester focused on enterprise network infrastructure (routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN) and using Splunk to collect, normalize, and onboard network device telemetry, with 3 days onsite required.

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:
  • Strong understanding of enterprise network infrastructure, including routing, switching, wireless, and SD-WAN.
  • Hands-on experience with Splunk for data ingestion, searches, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Experience working with network telemetry sources such as SNMP, syslog, telemetry streams, APIs, and device metrics.
  • This role requires 3 days onsite.
  • Sponsorship cannot be provided.
Responsibilities:
  • Collect, normalize, and onboard network device telemetry and instrumentation data, including metrics, logs, events, and streams, into Splunk and approved analytics platforms.
  • Work with Network Engineering teams to understand device behaviors, health indicators, and performance signals across routing, switching, wireless, and SD-WAN platforms.
Technologies:
  • Support
  • Network
  • Splunk

More:

We are seeking a Network Support Engineer for a 12-month contract based in Chester on a hybrid working pattern. This role is within the financial services industry and offers a rate of £550 per day inside IR35. We are a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP, acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

last updated 34 week of 2026

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