Network Engineer

Manchester or Peterborough – Hybrid Working

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You’ll be joining our collaborative Network Team, a group known for its supportive and hands-on approach. We design and deliver network solutions across Bauer’s audio business while supporting day‑to‑day operations that keep our brands connected and thriving.

From tackling major incidents to sharing knowledge or contributing to exciting projects, you’ll be part of a team where everyone contributes to enriching everyday life—through innovation, resilience, and great teamwork.

The Difference you will make

In this role, you will be at the heart of ensuring Bauer’s network infrastructure is secure, stable, and ready for the future. You’ll play a key part in monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving network issues across a diverse and evolving environment.

Your expertise will help us maintain the reliability our audiences and internal teams depend on every day, while also driving improvements and optimisations that shape our future network strategy. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a visible impact across a major media organisation and be part of a team that is growing and innovating.

Your role

As a Network Engineer, you’ll focus on supporting, maintaining, and improving our network infrastructure across multiple sites, technologies, and vendors.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensuring the availability of infrastructure and back‑office services
• Diagnosing and troubleshooting network issues, escalating when necessary
• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks
• Producing clear procedural documentation for IT teams and users
• Handling escalated customer/business issues
• Working collaboratively with other analysts, engineers, and project teams
• Contributing to both BAU activity and network-related projects

The Skills you will bring

Required:

• Excellent knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls
• Strong experience with Cisco hardware (Switches, Firewalls, Routers – Catalyst, Nexus, ISR, ASR, ASA)
• Deep experience with Cisco IOS, VLANs, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP in high‑availability environments
• Experience with Meraki or similar wireless technology
• Understanding of WAN technologies (e.g., point‑to‑point links, MPLS)
• Good understanding of VPN technologies (SSL, IPSEC)
• Familiarity with monitoring systems such as SolarWinds or Zabbix
• Knowledge of data centre processes including space and power management
• Experience with Zero Trust environments
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Strong customer service mindset and analytical approach

Working Pattern / Location

This is a full‑time, permanent position which can be based in Manchester or Peterborough on a hybrid basis.

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win. 
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working. 
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.