Job Description
Remote UK or Ireland
Ocho People are proud to be partnering with our client — a fast-growing US payments business — to find a Principal Network Engineer to join their world-class infrastructure team.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role for a true network specialist who thrives in complex, security-driven environments. You’ll be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining a next-generation global network spanning multiple data centres and cloud environments.
What You’ll Bring
🔹 Palo Alto Expertise
- Deep, hands-on CLI experience — confident managing and committing complex changes via CLI (not just GUI).
- Strong understanding of why Palo Alto behaves as it does, not just how.
- Experience with Advanced Routing Engine, Threat Prevention, Wildfire, URL Filtering.
- Solid grasp of best-practice configurations for scalable and secure deployments.
- Panorama experience is highly desirable.
- Prisma Access experience preferred (not mandatory).
- Exposure to other Palo Alto products (Prisma Cloud, Cortex XSOAR) a plus.
🔹 Juniper Expertise
- Primary: QFX Series switches, MX Series routers, Apstra.
- Secondary (nice to have): EX, SRX, Mist.
🔹 Core Networking Skills
- Proven experience with EVPN/VXLAN/BGP in large-scale enterprise or service provider environments.
- Deep understanding of advanced routing and switching architectures.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across multi-vendor environments.
- Strong design documentation and implementation planning capabilities.
Who You Are
- A network engineer at principal or architect level with extensive experience in enterprise-scale or service provider-grade networks.
- Highly detail-oriented with a passion for clean, efficient, and secure configurations.
- Comfortable collaborating across teams in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.
Why Join
- Work with cutting-edge network and security technology across a global payments platform.
- Collaborate with exceptional engineers in a fast-moving, innovative environment.
- Competitive package and flexibility to suit your working style.
Interested?
Send your CV or reach out to the Ocho People team