Network Engineer

Description

Network Engineer

Salary: £44,700 - £57,300

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced Network Engineer to join Leidos UK’s internal Network Engineering team, which can be based from either our Whiteley, Glasgow or Farnborough UK Offices, on a hyrbrid working basis with a requirement only to be in office around business needs.

This is a great opportunity for a mid-senior level engineer with strong enterprise networking experience who enjoys a mix of operational support, technical improvement, and project delivery. You’ll play a key role in maintaining and evolving a secure, business-critical network environment across both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure.

What you’ll be doing

Supporting and maintaining enterprise network infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments

Monitoring performance, investigating issues, and resolving network incidents

Implementing network changes in line with agreed processes and standards

Supporting the ongoing management of network security and vulnerability remediation across network devices

Configuring, managing and troubleshooting firewalls and authentication services, including Palo Alto

Contributing to the delivery and improvement of core network services such as LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, NAC and IPAM

Supporting UK-wide infrastructure projects and working closely with other technical teams

Helping to identify opportunities for service improvement, resilience and standardisation

What we’re looking for

We’d like to hear from candidates who bring solid hands-on network engineering experience, ideally in a complex enterprise environment, including:

Strong experience in routing and switching, including Layer 2/3 troubleshooting

Good knowledge of core networking protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, VRF and IPSEC

Experience configuring and supporting Palo Alto firewalls

A strong understanding of Cisco enterprise LAN/WAN environments

Experience implementing and supporting both physical and virtual networking solutions

Confidence planning and delivering technical changes, with clear communication to stakeholders and wider teams

A proactive, methodical approach to problem solving

Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities

Desirable

It would be beneficial if you also have experience with any of the following

SD-WAN

Network Access Control (NAC)

Wireless networking

Load balancing / Global Server Load Balancing

NSX, VXLAN or virtual firewall technologies

TACACS, MFA or PKI

Network automation

Working in secure or accredited environments

ITIL-based service delivery in critical infrastructure environments

Why join us?

This role offers the chance to work on a varied and technically interesting network estate, with opportunities to contribute to both operational excellence and longer-term improvement work. You’ll join a collaborative team environment where your experience will be valued and where there is scope to keep developing your skills.

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Original Posting

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range: £44,700.00-£57,300.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at careers/pay-benefits.

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