Network Engineer - Defence
High Security Clearance Required
£65k + benefits
Farnborough based
This role sits within a team responsible for building and supporting secure cloud infrastructure in a highly secure environment.
The position combines traditional network engineering with cloud-native platform networking, supporting Kubernetes-based services operating within air‑gapped infrastructure. You'll work across both physical and virtual networking layers, helping maintain secure, resilient and highly available platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting and improving secure cloud platform networking
- Maintaining and troubleshooting cross‑cluster communications within air‑gapped Kubernetes environments
- Configuring and supporting software‑defined networking technologies
- Implementing automation to reduce operational overhead and improve platform reliability
- Supporting platform upgrades, maintenance activities and incident resolution
- Participating in an on‑call rota (1 week in 6)
Qualifications
- IP Networking, WAN technologies and Layer 2-7 networking
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
- Linux systems administration
- Kubernetes administration in production environments
- Kubernetes networking, including CNI technologies such as Cilium
- Service Mesh technologies such as Istio
- MPLS L3 VPN or cloud‑native networking
- Infrastructure automation using Bash, Python, Git or similar tools
- Supporting secure and resilient network environments
This role would suit a Network Engineer who enjoys troubleshooting complex environments, automating repetitive tasks and working across both traditional networking and modern cloud‑native platforms.
