Network Consulting Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

Leave allowance (25 days + buy extras)

Life Insurance (4x)

Pension (matched 6%)

Flex benefits (3%)

Private medical cover

Car allowance (£5400)

Job summary

Sopra Steria in the United Kingdom seeks a strategic leader to oversee Defence Networks, blending defence insight, technology and international collaboration.

This hybrid role requires SC clearance or eligibility, with 1 day on site in Corsham and some international travel. You will drive stakeholder engagement and provide strategic technical guidance to ensure compliant, mission-focused delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in defence networking and secure communications.
• Experience engaging with senior leaders across multi-national organisations.
• SC Cleared or eligible for clearance.
• Hybrid working arrangement with on-site presence in Corsham.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Service delivery

Technical guidance

Governance experience

Senior stakeholder engagement

Tools

Cisco networking

SIEM

Windows Server

Active Directory

Nexus/ACI/NSX

Job description

The UK's Defence Networks Need a Strategic Leader. Is It You?

Join a role where defence, technology and international collaboration come together.

Hybrid: 1 day in Corsham per week. Some International travel.

Must be SC Cleared or eligible.

What You'll Be Doing:

• As a trusted representative and strategic lead, you will:
• 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 and SCOM.
• 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.

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.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.