Consulting Engineer (IT Networks)

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.

About the role:

As a Consulting Engineer at Sword, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-impact technical solutions across diverse environments. This is a hands-on position that blends deep technical expertise with strategic thinking, offering the opportunity to lead complex deployments, shape low-level designs, and provide expert consultancy to clients. You'll be the go-to authority for troubleshooting and escalation, working on cutting-edge network and security technologies.

Beyond the technical scope, this role offers the chance to mentor others, influence project outcomes, and be part of a collaborative team that values innovation and ownership. If you're looking to elevate your career in a role that combines leadership, technical depth, and client engagement — this is the opportunity for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, from design through to implementation, while maintaining clear and effective communication throughout
• Take full ownership of technical issues, ensuring thorough diagnosis and resolution
• Deliver project engineering services, including (but not limited to) low-level design, implementation, and consultancy
• Provide expert-level support to clients and serve as an internal escalation point for complex support incidents
• Troubleshoot and resolve network and security-related issues with precision and efficiency
• Mentor and support the development of other team members

Requirements

Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:

Key Responsibilities:

• Minimum CCNP level Cisco certification
• Knowledge and experience of deploying at least 5 of the following in a production environment
• Cisco Routers (and associated protocols such as EIGRP, OSPG, BGP)
• Cisco Switches (and associated technologies such as VTP, STP, VSS)
• Cisco Datacentre Switching (Nexus and associated technologies such as VPC, VDC)
• Cisco Wireless, Cisco Firewalls (ASA, or Firepower)
• Cisco Voice/IPT, Cisco SDWAN, Cisco ISE
• Azure and AWS cloud environments
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Cisco Meraki
• You will also be required to pass the Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) Security Clearance

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.

Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can't promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.

A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more....

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don't tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we're looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.