Principal Network Engineer
CompanyAgeas UK
Location
Chandler's Ford, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At5/27/2026
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Occupation TypeIT network professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£45,600
(£23.38 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Job Title: Principal Network Engineer
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: c£80,000 dependent on experience
Location: Eastleigh – Hybrid working environment, with a remote first approach
Closing Date for applications: Wednesday 10th June 2026
Principal Network Engineer: At Ageas Insurance, we’re looking for a Principal Network Engineer to act as our senior technical authority for network and connectivity services. You’ll shape the design, evolution, and resilience of our enterprise network estate across on prem, cloud, and hybrid environments—driving strategy, standards, and engineering excellence for business critical platforms.
The Principal Network is an engineer is a hands on role with real influence across Architecture, Security, Cloud, Workplace, and Application teams. You’ll use your exceptional relationship management skills, and technical knowledge to ensure our network services remain secure, high performing, and future ready—strengthening operational resilience, enhancing customer experience, and enabling business growth.
Main Responsibilities as Principal Network Engineer:
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: c£80,000 dependent on experience
Location: Eastleigh – Hybrid working environment, with a remote first approach
Closing Date for applications: Wednesday 10th June 2026
Principal Network Engineer: At Ageas Insurance, we’re looking for a Principal Network Engineer to act as our senior technical authority for network and connectivity services. You’ll shape the design, evolution, and resilience of our enterprise network estate across on prem, cloud, and hybrid environments—driving strategy, standards, and engineering excellence for business critical platforms.
The Principal Network is an engineer is a hands on role with real influence across Architecture, Security, Cloud, Workplace, and Application teams. You’ll use your exceptional relationship management skills, and technical knowledge to ensure our network services remain secure, high performing, and future ready—strengthening operational resilience, enhancing customer experience, and enabling business growth.
Main Responsibilities as Principal Network Engineer:
- Lead end-to-end design of complex network solutions (cloud, hybrid, third-party, secure access)
- Assure high-risk changes, architecture decisions, and transformation initiatives
- Ensure network resilience, performance, availability, and security across environments
- Drive platform modernisation, lifecycle planning, and technical debt reduction
- Embed observability, automation, and reliability engineering into operations
- Recognised technical authority with strong stakeholder influence
- Calm and methodical under pressure
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:
Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.
About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.
We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.
Click on the ‘Apply button’ to be considered.
Important Notice – Recruitment Scam Alert: We are aware of fraudulent activity whereby individuals are being contacted with fake job offers claiming to be from Ageas, often for remote roles such as Administrative Assistants. These scams may include offers of high hourly pay and requests for upfront payments or deposits. Please be aware that Ageas will never ask for money at any stage of the recruitment process
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.
We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.
Click on the ‘Apply button’ to be considered.
Important Notice – Recruitment Scam Alert: We are aware of fraudulent activity whereby individuals are being contacted with fake job offers claiming to be from Ageas, often for remote roles such as Administrative Assistants. These scams may include offers of high hourly pay and requests for upfront payments or deposits. Please be aware that Ageas will never ask for money at any stage of the recruitment process
. Ageas will always ask you to make an application via our Company Websites and all legitimate Ageas job opportunities are listed on our official careers pages within. Communication will only come from verified Ageas email addresses and if you are unsure about the legitimacy of a job offer or communications you are receiving, please contact recruitment@ageas.co.uk with the subject FRAUD.