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Remote Network Monitoring Engineer
£70,000 - 75,000
Akkodis
Spring Gardens 57, Manchester + Remote
£70,000 - 75,000
Requirements
Must:
- Previous experience in a senior network monitoring or network engineering role within an ISP, managed network or large-scale infrastructure environment.
- Strong hands-on experience with VictoriaMetrics in production.
- Solid knowledge of Nagios, including configuration, plugins, and alerting workflows.
- Experience with streaming telemetry, including tools and protocols such as gNMI, gRPC, Telegraf or gNMIc.
- Exposure to AI or ML-driven monitoring, anomaly detection or predictive fault identification.
- Strong networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, and optical networks.
- Comfortable working independently and delivering against project milestones.
- Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- A detail-focused, proactive approach with a strong emphasis on reliability and quality.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy end-to-end monitoring solutions across newly delivered dark fibre infrastructure.
- Build streaming telemetry pipelines to provide real-time, low-latency visibility across the network.
- Configure, optimise and tune VictoriaMetrics for ingestion, retention and performance.
- Implement and manage Nagios-based monitoring for alerting and service health.
- Develop Grafana dashboards, or equivalent, to support operational and engineering insight.
- Commission monitoring across fibre nodes, OLTs and Layer 1-3 network equipment.
- Define baseline performance metrics and SLA-led alert thresholds.
- Work closely with network and operational teams to align monitoring with evolving topology.
- Drive continuous improvement across monitoring architecture, tooling and processes.
- Produce clear technical documentation, runbooks and operational guides.
- Support knowledge transfer into NOC and engineering teams.
- Provide project updates and contribute to wider programme reviews.
Description
We are a technology-led connectivity business looking for an experienced Network Monitoring Engineer to support a major dark fibre rollout programme on a 6-month fixed-term basis. This hands-on engineering role focuses on designing, implementing, and commissioning monitoring solutions across newly deployed fibre infrastructure and network equipment. Joining us offers the chance to take ownership in a critical technical area, work with specialist network teams, and ensure that new infrastructure is operationally ready from day one. We provide a high-impact project environment with modern tooling and meaningful engineering outcomes.
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