Are you looking for a career where your expertise keeps one of the UK’s busiest rail networks connected, secure, and moving every day?

We are seeking an IT Network Engineer (Level 1) with experience of operating, maintaining and implementing Fortinet SD-WAN to join our team based from our Head Office in London Bridge

This role offers hybrid working with a requirement for 3 days in the office/on-site.

2025 is the 200th anniversary of the first-ever passenger rail journey, so we’re celebrating our proud history and our bright future.

Can you move people? Apply now.What you’ll do

• Maintain and enhance Southeastern’s network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, integrity, and optimal performance.
• Collaborate with network delivery and support partners to maximise uptime and proactively address any issues.
• Lead and support IT projects, ensuring network requirements are fully understood, capacity is planned, and successful service introduction is achieved.
• Drive service improvements, applying best practices and innovative solutions to strengthen network reliability and security.

The experience you’ll need

To be considered for this role we recommend you demonstrate the below in your application;

• Experience of operating, maintaining and implementing Fortinet SD-WAN(essential)
• CCNA Enterprise <> CCNP (R+S/Wireless) / Security accreditation or equivalent (essential)
• Experience working with service providers (essential)
• Experience working with suppliers (essential)
• NOC experience – with desire to be more hands on/project based

As proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Scheme, we will offer you an interview if you apply under these schemes and meet the minimum criteria for the role. Find out more here.

Other things to know

• This vacancy may close early if we receive a large number of applications. So, make sure you get yours in early.
• All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references, a right to work verification, a basic criminal record check, and a pre-employment medical assessment. Work visa sponsorship isn’t available for this role.
• If you applied but weren’t successful in getting a similar role at Southeastern, please wait six months before applying again.

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What you’ll get in return

Along with your salary, the rewards you’ll get include:

• a final salary pension
• 25 days annual leave allowance (plus bank holidays)
• free rail travel across our networks.

Meaning you canfeel secure in your career as well as fulfilled by your work. Click here to see our full range of amazing benefits.

A bit about Southeastern

We’re one of Britain's busiest train operators, serving London, Kent and parts of East Sussex. We run over 1,700 trains a day, carrying more than 500,000 passengers and serving 180 stations.

However, working on our railway is more than getting passengers from A to B. It’s about all the little moments that make a difference to their journey.

It’s also about making our railway a great place to work. With a team that represents the communities we serve. This is a journey we’re fullycommitted to and we’re proud to have been named a ‘Great Place to Work’ at the 2023 National Rail Awards and endorsed as a WORK180 Employer for Women.

Our ways of working are what we expect of everyone at Southeastern. They are powerful. Tiny moments, every day, from every one of us, add up to massive, positive change. Improving how it feels to work here and how it feels to travel with us.

At the heart of everything we do, our Safeguarding Team works to keep our customers, colleagues, and the public safe by improving safeguarding measures and knowledge making sure everyone gets home safe, every day.

Learn more about our railway.