At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and implement secure networking solutions in a high-security defence environment.
- Company: Join a leading firm in the defence sector with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible hours, and the chance to work on impactful projects.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a dynamic and secure environment.
- Why this job: Make a difference in national security while tackling complex networking challenges.
- Qualifications: Experience with VMware NSX-T and strong networking skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Contract: 6 Months
Location: Yeovil (Fully Onsite, 3–5 days per week with compressed hours available)
Clearance: Current DV Clearance Required
We are looking for an experienced Senior Network Engineer to support the delivery of secure, enterprise-scale infrastructure within a high-security defence environment. This contract offers the opportunity to work on complex networking projects, helping to design, deploy and optimise software-defined networking solutions for mission-critical systems.
Working as part of a specialist technical team, you will take ownership of network design and implementation activities while providing technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle. This is a hands-on role suited to an engineer who enjoys solving complex networking challenges in highly secure environments.
Key Responsibilities- Design, implement and support VMware NSX-T networking solutions.
- Deliver software-defined networking (SDN) architectures across secure enterprise environments.
- Configure and troubleshoot complex network infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers throughout project delivery.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, virtualisation and security teams to deliver integrated networking solutions.
- Maintain network security standards and contribute to continuous service improvements.
- Strong commercial experience with VMware NSX-T or comparable network virtualisation technologies.
- Excellent understanding of enterprise networking, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VPNs, QoS and Cisco networking.
- Experience designing and supporting software-defined networking, micro-segmentation and secure network architectures.
- Knowledge of network security technologies, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, monitoring tools and virtualised infrastructure.
- Proven experience working within complex, secure enterprise or defence environments.
- Ability to lead technical activities, mentor colleagues and take ownership of engineering deliverables.
- VMware NSX certification.
- Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere or vSAN.
- Infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform or APIs.
- Networking experience across AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong Network Engineer with current DV clearance to contribute to a high-profile programme delivering secure infrastructure within the UK defence sector.
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