Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Location: Farnborough with flexibility to work from home and regular travel to UK customer and operational sites

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Network Engineer to support and evolve secure businesscritical network services within UK government and defence environments. This is a servicebased role working across 1st to 4th line support teams with the opportunity to contribute to project and change activities alongside live service operations.

The role offers a hybrid working model combining remote working with onsite presence at secure customer locations where required.

What will I be doing

• Lead network management and service acceptance activities setting technical standards and providing subjectmatter expertise to programme and delivery teams.
• Design validate and assure network solutions using formal verification and validation principles in secure environments.
• Produce and maintain highquality technical documentation including HLDs LLDs work instructions and operational procedures.
• Support the operation and continuous improvement of live network services ensuring availability resilience and compliance.
• Take ownership of complex incidents driving investigation and resolution through to successful closure.
• Communicate effectively across technical organisational and customer boundaries including within regulated and securityconstrained environments.
• Participate in an oncall support rota following an initial onboarding and handover period.

What technical skills does Leidos need from me

• Strong demonstrable experience with data centre and campus networking technologies including:
  • Cisco (routers switches firewalls)
  • Fortinet firewalls
  • Palo Alto firewalls
  • Juniper (routers switches firewalls)
  • F5 / Citrix
• Indepth understanding of network protocols including:
  • Routing: OSPF BGP EIGRP Static
  • Switching: VLAN / 802.1Q (R/M)STP Port Security Layer 3 switching LACP / EtherChannel
  • VPLS VPN PKI and load balancing
• Experience implementing and supporting AAA services including TACACS within secure or regulated environments.
• Proven experience operating highavailability data centre networks.
• Handson experience with monitoring and management tooling such as SolarWinds PRTG and Panorama.
• Good working knowledge of Windows Server environments including Active Directory DNS and DHCP.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience working with AWS networking services in secure or regulated environments including hybrid onprem to cloud connectivity.
• Exposure to cloudintegrated or hybrid network architectures.

Required Personal Skills

• Excellent documentation skills with the ability to produce clear accurate and auditable technical artefacts suitable for secure environments.
• Selfstarter mentality able to work independently take ownership of tasks and proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving capability with the ability to manage complex technical issues in secure environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High levels of organisation ownership and attention to detail.
• Ability to work confidently in customerfacing roles and within securityrestricted sites.

Security Clearance Requirements

• This role requires UK Security Check (SC) clearance or the ability to obtain it.
• Candidates must be UK nationals and have appropriate UK residency history to meet security vetting requirements.
• The role involves working on secure customer sites where onsite attendance is mandatory.

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers a collaborative culture and support for your career goals all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance health schemes gym memberships annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging welcoming all perspectives and contributions and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE we work to make the worldsaferhealthier andmore efficient through technology engineering andscience.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence healthcare government safety and security and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning AI cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home the office or on customer sites we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos we invest in technical academies career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.