Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Company Overview: At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations.

Department Overview: Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses.

Join our Shared Platform services team as a Network Engineer, where you will be instrumental in the planning, designing and implementation of new networking solutions all whilst providing critical support for existing infrastructure. These solutions have multiple products deemed as critical national infrastructure and operate on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform.

This role is primarily remote, with travel to UK locations. This may extend to international locations also.

About the Products You Will Support:

• Guardian is a call taking & dispatching platform used by emergency service operators across the UK & Europe.
• Pronto is a digital notebook service providing front line police officers with access to national systems to obtain information quickly and efficiently.

Our Team Structure: Our team is structured into distinct streams: networking, virtualisation, and Infrastructure. These teams collaborate closely to manage all facets of the infrastructure. Our primary goal is to provide optimal service for the hosted products and, ultimately, for our customers who are dedicated to protecting our communities.

The infrastructure is going through rapid changes in every aspect over the next year. You will succeed in this role if you are a person who wants to learn new technologies in a fast paced environment, have a willingness to get involved with different projects all whilst maintaining the demanding Service Level Agreements of our existing hosted solutions.

Operational Responsibilities:

• Manage and support networking operations across multiple Motorola sites and customers remote sites.
• Maintaining the firewall rules, routing policies, NAT and security objects across multiple different technologies.
• Design, Review & Maintain network documentation and topology diagrams.
• Work with third party vendors to troubleshoot outages / circuits faults etc.
• Participate in an on-call rotation (begins after 6 months of service).
• Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning and optimisation.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and regulatory requirements from a public sector perspective, such as ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and NCSC Security best practices.
• Travel to any of our internal or customer sites as necessary.
• Support the Incident Management team in ensuring efficient delivery and resolution of incidents and problems with a solution.
• Continuous personal and professional development in keeping abreast of emerging industry and technological trends and threats.

Basic Requirements:

• 3 years minimum experience in a similar role.
• Ability to attain NPPV3 and SC clearance.
• Must be a resident of the UK for a minimum of 5 years to obtain.

Communication Skills: Must effectively be able to articulate network concepts and solutions to diverse audiences, including technical peers, non-technical stakeholders, customers, and internal staff.

Network Infrastructure: Strong understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking concepts (VLANs, routing protocols, subnetting, STP). Hands-on experience with Aruba Switches (or other vendors e.g. Cisco, HP, Juniper). Experience in managing and troubleshooting private circuits.

Routing Infrastructure: Strong understanding of routing protocols (OSPF / BGP). Experience in designing and maintaining multi-site routing topologies. Experience in troubleshooting routing problems.

Firewalls & Security: Administration of a large firewall estate across multiple sites (Fortinet / Checkpoint). Experience in writing, reviewing, and maintaining firewall rulesets aligned with the operational policy and security standards.

Monitoring & Security: Experience with taking packet captures and using analysis tools such as Wireshark to troubleshoot connectivity issues. Experience with network monitoring tools.

Desirable Experience: Experience with SD-WAN solutions, basic understanding of SD-WAN configuration, experience with SIP technologies, experience with SDN technologies, experience with RedHat Openshift solutions.

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
• Company Car Scheme.
• Private medical insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Flexible working options.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.
• Employee health and wellbeing support.
• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.

Travel Requirements: 10-25%.

Relocation Provided: None.

Position Type: Experienced.

Referral Payment Plan: Yes.

Company: Motorola Solutions UK Limited.

EEO Statement: Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.