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

Network Implementation Engineer — Campus Refresh Programme

Programme: Real Estate Refresh & Refurbishment

Primary Location: London

Number of Resources: 1

Duration: 12 months

Working Pattern: Hybrid — onsite as required, including out-of-hours and weekend work

Role Overview:

A major refresh and refurbishment programme is underway across a 30-floor head

office campus in London, home to a live trading floor and other critical business

functions. We are seeking three experienced Network Engineers to support 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 who are 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 on the

practical nuances this creates

• 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 environment focused. There is minimal

involvement with data centre or F5/load-balancing technologies; however, 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 — this is 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 (deep firewall engineering

not required)

• Basic multicast configuration — sufficient for use cases such as office

screens/digital signage

• Voice VLAN configuration to switchport level (no end-to-end voice engineering

required)

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 out-of-the-box 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:

Regulated Environment: Candidates must understand the operating norms of a highly

regulated environment, particularly strict change control and the consequences of

unauthorised actions on production. Banking experience is preferred given the presence of a trade floor onsite. Candidates from other highly regulated industries (oil and gas, defence, etc.) will also be considered where they can clearly demonstrate equivalent change discipline.

Onsite & Out-of-Hours Working: Onsite presence is expected for relevant tasks. Heavy out-of-hours and weekend work is required to align with campus change windows, particularly around the trading floor. Remote working is possible for activity that does

not require physical presence.