Network Implementation Engineer at WWT EMEA UK LIMITED, London/Remote, £Contract Rate

Location: London (Hybrid — onsite as required, including out-of-hours and weekend work)
Contract Length: 12 months

Role Overview

A major refresh and refurbishment programme is underway across a large corporate campus in London supporting critical, business-sensitive operations. We're seeking three experienced Network Engineers to support the design, implementation and delivery of campus network changes.

This is a delivery and project-based role, not a support or operational one. We need engineers used to delivering: planning, preparing and driving project work end-to-end, instructing and coordinating other engineers or contractors, and physically delivering, installing and migrating kit — rather than fixing or maintaining existing infrastructure. Candidates should be comfortable operating in a highly regulated, large enterprise environment with strict change controls, working alongside cabling design, audio-visual, security, construction and end-user testing teams.

Indicative work split: Implementation ~60% Design (largely templated and repeatable) ~20% Project coordination, validation and other tasks ~20%

Programme Scope

• Reviewing and relocating main equipment rooms across the building
• Refreshing floors as they are decommissioned, refurbished and brought back into service
• Migrating services to temporary core/distribution and ultimately to the final core/distribution design
• Deploying and configuring new network kit as floors and equipment rooms become available, including delivering kit to site, instructing junior engineers/contractors, and migrating and refreshing existing switches
• Refreshing wireless infrastructure across multiple generations of Wi-Fi deployed across the estate, including managing user Wi-Fi through construction and handover phases and coordinating closely with construction teams
• Building network infrastructure to the standard expected in live operations, with security requirements designed in from the outset rather than retrofitted
• Validating network functionality jointly with cabling, AV, physical security and end-user testing teams

Note: The programme is office/campus focused, with minimal involvement in data centre or load-balancing technologies. Candidates should still have experience deploying data centre-grade network devices, reflecting the calibre of kit and change discipline required.

Technical Requirements

Core — Essential:

• Cisco Catalyst switching — 6500, 4500 and 9410 platforms
• Cisco wireless access points across multiple generations — 3800 series through to 9130 series
• Cisco wireless controllers — 5520, 5508 and 9800 series
• Cisco Catalyst Centre and Cisco Prime Infrastructure
• Strong, Wi-Fi savvy campus wireless experience — a key differentiator for this programme
• Recent, hands-on experience deploying and refreshing network infrastructure in a live campus environment
• Experience deploying data centre-grade network devices
• Campus edge design experience
• Heavy use of BGP and Layer 3 routing domains in a campus context

Supplementary — Desirable:

• General awareness of firewalls in a campus context
• Basic multicast configuration (e.g., digital signage use cases)
• Voice VLAN configuration to switchport level

Delivery & Project Skills

• Demonstrable large enterprise experience — this is not a support-led or operational role
• A project-based mindset with a track record of implementation work, not BAU support or fault-fixing
• Strong project delivery skills — planning, preparing and driving network workstreams end-to-end
• Comfortable delivering and physically installing kit, instructing and directing other engineers or contractors, and carrying out switch migrations and refreshes
• Ability to guide project managers through logical sequencing of network activity
• Proactive in engaging cabling, AV, security, construction and end-user teams to deliver to plan
• Comfortable producing and following templated, repeatable designs at scale

Environment & Ways of Working

Candidates must understand the operating norms of a highly regulated environment, particularly strict change control and the consequences of unauthorised actions on production. Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries (oil & gas, defence, etc.) is preferred, where candidates can clearly demonstrate equivalent change discipline.

Onsite presence is expected for relevant tasks. Heavy out-of-hours and weekend work is required to align with campus change windows. Remote working is possible for activity that does not require physical presence.