About Essant

As a specialised and highly focussed organisation, Essant provides personnel, knowledge and services to help leading organisations leverage their investment in core networked technologies.

The way we work with clients can be summarised by the following characteristics:

Collaborative: Our engineers and programme managers work alongside in-house teams -to extend and enhance ICT capabilities.
Adaptable: we provide you with resource how, when and where you need it most - saving you time and money.
Transparent: we separate the consultancy and hardware decisions - giving you the objectivity required to make sound business decisions.
Agile: we can respond quickly and work to tight deadlines - enabling you to take advantage of limited opportunities and obtain fast return on investment.
Strategic: we investigate all key stakeholder requirements - ensuring our recommendations support your seamless business development.
Proven: we adhere to Essant best practice - increasing the knowledge and value of your in-house team regarding policies, procedures and processes.

Discover more about our people, processes and our customers by exploring the idividual tabs below:

Contact Details

Use the form below to get in touch, we will generally respond within 24 hours.

Alternatively call us on 08456 740047.

Essant is consultancy led, and puts the client's needs first. Our five-stage, ‘lifecycle’ methodology provides a client engagement framework that ensures that things are done in the right order, at the right time, with the right people involved. This also ensures Essant’s engagement dovetails into other concepts and practices for managing IT, such as ITIL, adopted by the client.

Each phase, and even specific aspects and tasks, can be implemented as individual work-streams, however we find that that a client will gain greater competitive advantage from their network by engaging with Essant over the complete network lifecycle.

Move your mouse cursor over the areas of the lifecycle diagram to reveal more information on that phase.

This is generally the first phase of our engagement with a client, before we do anything we need to understand what is currently in place both from a network technology perspective and what the business goals and aspirations of the client are. In many cases we find that a network has grown both organically and by company acquisitions and mergers and it often helps to take a step back to baseline and test what is currently in place before moving forward, the Essant Proactive Network Healthcheck (PNH) is an ideal vehicle for doing this and in many cases provides a excellent point of initial client engagement. In addition to the PNH Essant would also carry out performance tests, review as is documentation carry out an initial Network Readiness Assessment for any particular future projects that are being planned and discussed.

Specific tasks carried out during the Assure phase include:

➤ Understand Business Requirements
➤ Health Check, Performance Test and Baseline existing Network Infrastructure
➤ Carry out Network Readiness Assessment

We believe that the key benefits of the Essant Lifecycle approach include:

Reduced total cost of network ownership due to the network being architected to suit the business's needs and future plans.
Improved business agility brought about by speeding the access to applications and services for decision making and transaction execution.
Increased availability of critical services enabled by a resilient, carefully planned and implemented, scalable network.

Essant has an established team of CCIE certified engineers and technology experts, who have worked together for many years at Planet Online, Datarange and - through acquisition - Energis, now Cable & Wirleless.

The technical team is complemented by a professional services team, comprising business consultants, programme and project managers, to provide the optimum blend of expert capability to deliver resource when, where and how it is required.

Our base of engineers are trained to the highest level and have been responsible for delivering groundbreaking networked solutions, including the core networks that deliver national TV and radio broadcasts, amongst others.

Ongoing investment in training, development and recruitment ensures we can offer world-class service delivery, underpinned by unparalleled expertise - essential for the scoping, design, implementation and management of the UK's leading IP networks.

Careers with Essant.

Due to our growing client base, we are always interested to hear from talented and committed individuals, capable of fulfilling either sales or techncial consultancy roles.

Because our approach is both agile and adaptable, we are interested in hearing from you whether you are available to work on either a full-time or part-time/consultancy basis.

We do not employ any agencies and will only respond to direct applicants. The receipt of unsolicited CVs from agencies and search firms does not constitute acceptance of terms.

Click the following role headings to reveal current vacancies, use the Contact Tab above to submit your CV, we look forward to hearing from you.

Technical Vacancies

Administration Vacancies

Sales Vacancies

Role: Consulting Systems Engineer (Cisco CCIE) and Systems Engineer (CCDA/DP or CCNA/NP)
Reporting to: Operations Director
Location: West Yorkshire and London/SE.
(Posted November 11th 2010)

Essant are looking to identify talented Engineers with excellent Cisco Skills for permanent positions based from our Head Office and Operations Centre in Wakefield, and to cover client work in London and the South East. These positions have been created due to increased customer demand for Essant's Data Centre, Unified Communications and Security Solutions that are built on Cisco technology.

Candidates need to have experience of the full service lifecycle and be able to consult, design and present systems to new and existing customers predominantly in the areas of Data Centre, Unified Communications, Security and Routing & Switching.

Specific Role Requirements:
Consulting Systems Engineer - Minimum CCIE (both written and LAB), with a current valid CCIE number, with significant experience in one of the areas mentioned above and a working knowledge of one or more of the others. We are particularly interested in candidates for this role who have qualifications or experience of Cisco Nexus and VSS technology and have Cisco Data Centre Network Infrastructure qualifications, or are working towards them. You will be joining an established team who have worked together on significant projects across various industries, the opportunities to develop skills further are significant.

Systems Engineer - You will already have Cisco qualifications and experience, this role will allow you to both put these into practice and develop new skills and further your career, if you have the desire and determination take your expertise right through to CCIE level we will support you and provide the environment to achieve this goal. Cisco Unified Computing (UCS) and/or Unified Communications experience would be an advantage.

Competitive Salary package and benefits will provided commensurate with qualifications and experience for both positions.

To find out more submit your CV, or contact Mark Hunter directly on 0845 805 3857.

Essant's expertise and services are focussed on assisting organisations who's network is core and fundamental to the running of their business.

Typically our clients will depend on their network for handling real-time financial transactions or live, data-rich services.

We serve a broad customer base, but have a particular focus on the following sectors (click to show more on that vertical);

     ➤ finance
     ➤ legal
     ➤ online gaming

for whom we provide collaborative network support and advanced consultancy services.

We know our customers are our best advert, and as such we take customer satisfaction very seriously, we wouldn’t be where we are today without our customers’ continued support and constructive feedback along the way.

You can view some of our case studies on the right (click on the thumbnail to read the full case study), which detail work done with existing clients, and includes customer comments. If you would like to talk to one of our customers directly to assess our performance and commitment as a trusted partner please contact us and we will happily arrange.

DWS | London Law Firm |
Data Centre Relocation
GFI | Inter Dealer Broker |
New LAN Infrastructure

Essant have a reputation for going that extra mile, to deliver above and beyond expectation, we are committed to operate every aspect of our business to the highest possible quality of service to all our clients. We do this by deploying a progressive management style that empowers and encourages a quality culture throughout the organisation.

We look forward to finding out how we can help your organisation achieve its business goals, and to earning your loyalty.

At Essant we believe it makes good business sense to honour our responsibility and sustainable development goals. This reflects our core business philosophy and values - to be refreshing, dynamic, straightforward honest and friendly. We want to make a difference to business by creating simple, innovative solutions that help our customers achieve their goals.

We are committed to managing our impact on the environment, our staff are encouraged to recognise, measure and improve our environmental performance on a continuous basis. Dowload our current Environmental & Social Responsibility Policy Document here.

In addition we have a policy of trying to help charitable organisations by providing technical consultancy and support services on a 'Pro-Bono' basis, clearly as a commercial organisations there is a limit to the number of these type of projects we can be involved with at any particular time but if you are a UK registered charity and would like to explore this further please get in touch.

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Registered Office:
Essant House, 9 The Office Campus, Paragon Business Park, Wakefield WF1 2UY
Company Registration No: 5178396
VAT No: 921701946