Senior Network Engineer

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct‑to‑consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

Our Technology function provides the secure, reliable and scalable platforms that keep Aberdeen connected to our clients, markets and one another. The network engineering team designs, runs and improves our enterprise network services across our offices, data centres and cloud environments, ensuring that critical applications and data are always available and protected.

Working closely with our Cloud, Security and Platform teams, we focus on strong security, high performance and modern ways of working to support a highly regulated, global investment business. By delivering robust connectivity and secure access, the team plays a key role in enabling our clients to be better investors.

As a Senior Network Engineer in our UK Technology function, you will take ownership of the design, operation and optimisation of Aberdeen’s enterprise network across on‑premises and Microsoft Azure cloud environments. Based in Edinburgh or London and working in a hybrid model (3 days per week in the office), you will act as a senior escalation point for complex incidents and lead on the delivery of secure, high performing network services, for both BAU and project work.

You will work extensively with technologies such as Checkpoint firewalls (advanced security devices that control network traffic), Cisco enterprise routing and switching, and Azure networking services in the cloud. This senior role is an opportunity to shape our network roadmap, influence security and connectivity standards and work closely with colleagues across Cloud, Security and Platform teams.

This is a permanent position that will give you the scope to deepen your technical expertise, lead on significant change and invest in your tomorrow while helping us to invest for a better future for our clients.

• Provide 3rd line support for complex network incidents and problems, acting as a senior escalation point to restore stable service across data centres, campuses and branch offices.
• Design, operate and optimise enterprise network services across on premises and Azure environments, proactively monitoring performance, capacity and availability and driving improvements where required.
• Administer, optimise and troubleshoot Checkpoint firewalls, including policy management, clustering, VPNs and advanced security features, to maintain a strong and compliant security posture.
• Engineer and support Cisco LAN and WAN infrastructure, implementing advanced routing (for example OSPF and BGP), resilient switching architectures and quality of service to support business critical traffic.
• Design and support Azure networking, including virtual networks, network security groups, routing, VPN gateways, Express Route…