The Zonal group are one of the UK’s largest technology providers to the hospitality industry.

Our products are used by over 16,000 pubs, restaurants, and hotels.  Customers include national brands like Pizza Express, and All Bar One.                                             

We provide our customers with the solutions they need to make their business a success. 

These solutions include mobile apps for ordering and web apps for engaging with consumers either through loyalty or reservations. By linking these solutions to Zonal’s EPoS (till) system, we help hospitality brands to understand their customers’ behaviour and preferences, enabling them to excel in an increasingly competitive market. 

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Network Engineer, someone who can deliver operational excellence and stability to our customer facing and corporate networks.   This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a wider technical team building and connecting platforms that will help define the future of hospitality both in the UK and abroad.

You and your team will:

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with architects, operations and engineering teams
• Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable and highly available networking solutions
• Develop the future of networking within Zonal, evaluating new technology, building roadmaps and working collaboratively with other teams to deliver industry leading solutions
• Continually improve BAU processes and procedures
• Build out tooling, monitoring and security controls
• Own the network aspects within DR plans and processes
• Promote a automate, tool and document culture
• Analyse and implement solutions to reduce complexity and toil
• Participate in on-call cover and Incident Response
• Play a key role in change management controls
• Work with customers, partners and vendors to articulate requirements and shape the right solutions

Who you are

You will have 3+ years’ experience in a similar role in enterprise and datacentre networking:

What you’ll need to succeed

Hands-on experience in all or some of the following

• • Firewalls, switching and L2/L3 principles
  • Configuration and administration of resilient corporate and datacentre network infrastructure and devices
  • Management and automation technologies
  • Security controls, access models for local and distributed workforces
  • Proactive monitoring, logging and corrective actions
• Excellent analytical, fault diagnosis and troubleshooting skills
• Solid understanding of network design principles, resilience and industry best practice
• Experienced documenting solutions, specifications and high level designs, developing policies around BAU and change
• Quick to spot opportunities in new capabilities, a fast learner
• A self-starter with a passion for technology and problem solving

• A champion of automate everything, document everything
• A team player, organised, with a safe pair of hands

Desirable, but not a must

• Experience in Checkpoint, DELL, Meraki and ESXi network services
• Experience in and around multi-site enterprise, MSP, datacentre and cloud technologies
• Based around central belt Scotland for on site attendance

What we value

Teamwork, Passion, Innovation and Professionalism are the values we believe make us the company we are.   We are looking for someone who understands great culture and will help us shape it as it evolves.