Overview
Network Engineer – , UK
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The Opportunity
As a Network Engineer at EDF Renewables UK & Ireland, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting and enhancing our corporate and operational networks.
Your expertise will ensure these networks are secure, reliable, and optimized to meet business needs. You’ll collaborate closely with colleagues across the EDF Group and our Asset Operations team, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
This role will require travel to EDF Renewables sites across the UK and Ireland, providing hands-on support and oversight to our growing infrastructure.
Pay, benefits and culture
If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place!’
Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.
We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.
Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.
We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.
We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
What you’ll be doing
You will work with IT network engineers to design, secure, and optimize UK & Ireland IT networks.
- Tackle and resolve network issues with speed and precision.
- Empower the IT team with top-tier networking support.
- Put networks to the test—routinely and after fixes.
- Lead projects with confidence, driving success from start to finish.
- Create crystal-clear network documentation for seamless operations.
- Influence key decisions with impactful reports and insights.
- Build strong connections with stakeholders across the business.
- Champion safety, security, and quality in everything you do.
- Share your expertise by guiding users on network functionality.
- Play a key role in upgrading and expanding EDF Renewables networks.
- Stay ahead of the curve with the latest networking tech to keep systems running at peak performance.
What do you need to be great at this role?
You will be an experienced Network Engineer with 10+ years of experience, possessing accreditations and expertise in networking systems, including Cisco and Fortinet.
You should have experience working in both IT and OT environments and the ability to analyse and report on data trends to predict system capacity and thresholds. Familiarity with ITIL practices and methodologies is essential, along with a full, clean UK driving licence to accommodate travel requirements.
You will have knowledge of networking technologies such as WAN, LAN, NAT, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, SWG, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, MPLS, VRFs, BGP, OSPF, QoS, SNMP, ADSL, SDN, Cabling, Racking, Technical Drawing, and Monitoring.
Additionally, experience with WiFi 6, 4G/5G, WDS, Mesh, MIMO, Roaming, AP Planning/Survey & Design, VPN, IPSec, L2T2, DPI, IPS, SSO, SD-WAN, Proxy, SSL inspection, ACL, and Bandwidth control is beneficial.
You must have strong stakeholder engagement skills across all levels, the ability to integrate into a team and build strong relationships with internal customers and third parties, and the capability to operate effectively within a matrix team comprising technical and non-technical members.
Strong organisational skills, excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, analytical problem-solving abilities, and a proactive approach are key to success in this role.
You should also be able to provide technical leadership to optimise IT infrastructure performance.
Closing date for applications: 20th of March 2025
Location: Based from one of our offices with the UK Durham, London, Edinburgh or Cardiff. We’re proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, meaning you can work comfortably from home with our offices as your base location. This role does require travel to our sites on an ad hoc basis.
Why EDF Renewables?
At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.
It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.
To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.
If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.
Join us, and let’s do good together.
