Network Consulting Manager

Sopra Steria; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave + buy extra days

Life insurance

Pension 6% matched

Flex benefit

Private medical cover

Car allowance

Job summary

Sopra Steria in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Network Consulting Manager to drive delivery and evolution of JMNIAN, engaging MOD, industry, and international partners. This hybrid role includes one day on site weekly in Corsham, with some international travel and SC clearance eligibility.

You will shape requirements, lead governance discussions, and provide strategic technical guidance for secure networking capabilities in a high-visibility environment.

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience gathering, analysing, and translating complex requirements.
• Background in service delivery, operations, or capability management.
• Ability to provide technical guidance to support growth and service evolution.
• Experience working with governance, policy, and operational procedures.
• Confident engaging with senior leaders from technical and non-technical backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Drive stakeholder engagement across the MOD, defence industry, coalition partners, and international organisations.
• Represent the UK within the multinational CFBLNet community, promoting capability growth, collaboration, and operational effectiveness.
• Deliver high-quality reporting and updates to programme boards, project offices, and senior defence stakeholders.
• Act as the UK's focal point for key governance forums, change boards, and management meetings.
• Capture and shape future network requirements, supporting capability growth, expansion, and new operational demands.
• Provide strategic technical guidance for the ongoing development of JMNIAN and related secure networking services.
• Support network approvals, security accreditation, policy implementation, and compliance activities.
• Coordinate with MOD delivery teams and industry partners to enable future networking capabilities and international connectivity.
• Influence decisions that directly support multinational defence operations and mission success.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Requirements gathering

Service delivery

Operations

Capability management

Technical guidance

Governance & policy

Senior stakeholder engagement

Job description

Want to play a key role in a secure, internationally connected Defence network? We're looking for an experienced Network Consulting Manager to help drive the delivery, development and future evolution of JMNIAN, working across MOD, industry and international coalition partners.

This is a highly visible role combining service delivery, stakeholder engagement, technical strategy and international collaboration. You'll act as a key UK representative within the CFBLNet community, helping ensure the capability continues to meet operational requirements today while supporting its future growth.

Hybrid: 1 day in Corsham per week. Some International travel. Must be SC Cleared or eligible.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Drive stakeholder engagement across the MOD, defence industry, coalition partners, and international organisations.
• Represent the UK within the multinational CFBLNet community, promoting capability growth, collaboration, and operational effectiveness.
• Deliver high-quality reporting and updates to programme boards, project offices, and senior defence stakeholders.
• Act as the UK's focal point for key governance forums, change boards, and management meetings.
• Capture and shape future network requirements, supporting capability growth, expansion, and new operational demands.
• Provide strategic technical guidance for the ongoing development of JMNIAN and related secure networking services.
• Support network approvals, security accreditation, policy implementation, and compliance activities.
• Coordinate with MOD delivery teams and industry partners to enable future networking capabilities and international connectivity.
• Influence decisions that directly support multinational defence operations and mission success.

What You'll Bring:

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience gathering, analysing, and translating complex requirements.
• Background in service delivery, operations, or capability management.
• Ability to provide technical guidance to support growth and service evolution.
• Experience working with governance, policy, and operational procedures.
• Confident engaging with senior leaders from a variety of technical and non-technical backgrounds.

You'll ideally have experience across a broad range of enterprise and defence networking technologies, including:

• Cisco routing, switching, and Unified Communications.
• Network security, firewalls, IDS/IPS technologies.
• SIEM and security monitoring platforms.
• Endpoint management and data protection solutions.
• Microsoft Exchange and Windows Server environments.
• Active Directory, SCCM.
• Linux administration.
• WAN technologies and secure communications environments.
• Nexus switching, ACI, NSX and modern network architectures.

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid: 1 day on site in Corshame Some International travel.

Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC Clearance.

Salary: To £65K

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days,4 x life Insurance, matched contributory pension to 6%, 3% flex benefit, single private medical cover, £5400.00 car allowance.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment.

We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.