Principal Network Engineer

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:

• 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

Skills and experience you need as Principal Network Engineer:

• Recognised technical authority with strong stakeholder influence
  
• Calm and methodical under pressure
  
• Extensive experience in complex enterprise network environments
  
• Strong cloud networking expertise (AWS and/or Azure)
  
• Proven track record designing secure, resilient, scalable networks

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve,Top Employer status in the UK.

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 Peoplehelp 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 theRace at Work Charter andWomen in Finance Charter, member ofiCAN andGAIN. As aDisability 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 tosupport 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 seeAgeas 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 discussingflexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, seeAbout Us.

Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.

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