Senior Project Consultant - Networks

Job description

Position Description:

Trusted to secure the digital future, today. If you’re looking for a challenge that stretches your talents, and you want to make a real difference in people’s lives, come and help us support the digital transformation of the UK. The CGI Project Team are seeking to recruit a dedicated Senior Network specialist, to work in a dynamic and challenging environment, with a pedigree of networking excellence. You will be working with high profile public and commercial clients, delivering systems that support critical services.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension,
private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a member not just an employee.
We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold
Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

The main objectives of the role are to implement network changes that achieve a high level of client satisfaction, delivering on time, within budget and to a high standard. As Network Engineer, you will install network and security devices, configure and troubleshoot any issues resulting from changes on commercial and secure clients in the UK CGI Data Centres and on UK client sites.

You will be working in a dynamic and challenging environment with a pedigree of networking excellence. The successful candidate will work on their own initiative, liaising with project and change requestors to achieve client deadlines and demonstrate client facing, customer service skills. The role offers career progression pathway to a Senior Network Engineer role involved with more complex projects and new business transitions, contributing to the network design.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• Strong familiarity and subject matter expertise in relation to Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Change Control, Implementation, Documentation
• Ideally relevant qualifications and sufficient experience in relation to the above
• LAN/WAN / Firewalls / CCNA.
• Experienced in Telecoms implementation.
• Advanced Cisco IOS skills & experience
• Strong familiarity with a wide range of Firewall vendors (Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Palo Alto, McAfee)
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, sub-netting, IP address allocation & management
• Strong understanding of ITIL and change management methodology
• WAN installation/migration experience

This role has SC clearance as mandatory due to the nature of the work. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the UK's vetting process. Non-UK nationals applying for vacancies where a security clearance is a mandatory requirement, i.e. applicants must meet the UK's 5 year residency criteria in order for their application to be considered. Any person unable to meet these requirements should not apply.

Skills:

·  Change Management
·  Checkpoint
·  Cisco
·  Fortigate
·  Fortigate
·  Process Management

What you can expect from us:

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