Senior Network Engineer – DC, Routing & Automation

Leidos; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension

Private Medical Insurance

33 days annual leave

Flexible benefits

Flexible working

Job summary

Leidos UK is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join the delivery team in Farnborough. You will design and implement scalable data centre and campus networks, applying automation to improve efficiency and reliability.

You will lead network management and acceptance, set design standards, and collaborate with customer teams to ensure services meet business needs across multiple lines of business. A strong background in Cisco, Palo Alto and F5, plus monitoring tools, is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in data centre and campus networking technologies including Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 and encryption.
• Strong understanding of routing protocols (static and dynamic) in data centre, campus and WANs.
• Experience with L2/L3 networking and routing.
• Experience managing high availability data centre networks supporting critical workloads on Windows, Linux and SAN.
• Experience with monitoring/management tools such as Solarwinds, FMC and Panorama.
• Good knowledge of Windows Server environments (AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO) and Linux (RHEL) server infrastructures.
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills and strong written/verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Provide Network Engineering skills and produce solution designs as part of the senior delivery team.
• Work with partner delivery teams to design and implement modern, scalable Network using automation.
• Lead on all Network management and acceptance aspects including setting standards and providing deep technical expertise to Leidos programme teams.
• Utilise verification and validation concepts to produce relevant Network Designs across multiple subject areas.
• Collaborate with customers on all aspects of Network management including assurance and integration of Network services to meet business needs.
• Recognise and exploit business opportunity by leveraging engineering and design best practice.
• Communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries.

Skills

Data centre networking

Campus networking

Routing protocols

L2/L3 networking

Windows Server

Linux (RHEL)

SAN

Monitoring tools

Cisco

Palo Alto

F5

Encryption

Solarwinds

FMC

Panorama

Tools

Solarwinds

FMC

Panorama

Job description

Leidos UK is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join the delivery team in Farnborough. You will design and implement scalable data centre and campus networks, applying automation to improve efficiency and reliability.

You will lead network management and acceptance, set design standards, and collaborate with customer teams to ensure services meet business needs across multiple lines of business. A strong background in Cisco, Palo Alto and F5, plus monitoring tools, is required.