Network Engineer Defence High Security Clearance Required
Job Location:
Farnborough - UK
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Job Summary
Job Description
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. Youll work across both physical and virtual networking layers helping maintain secure resilient and highly available platforms.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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)
The team is looking for engineers with experience in several of the following areas:
- 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.
Required Experience:
IC
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