Senior Network Engineer
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Occupation Type
IT network professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£45,600
(£23.38 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Are you a Network Engineer ready for your next challenge?
Sopra Steria is delivering a unique solution from the ground up for the Defence sector. It seamlessly integrates infrastructure and applications in highly secure, mission-critical environments. It is an opportunity to make a genuine impact, influence complex technical solutions, and work on a nationally significant programme that few organisations can offer exposure to.
For someone motivated by purpose, scale, and technical complexity, this role offers the chance to see their work directly contribute to outcomes that really matter.
What you will be doing:
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Hertfordshire
Security Clearance Level: Active MoD DV
Internal Recruiter: Josh
Salary: Up to £60k
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy extra days, life assurance, and 6% pension
Sopra Steria is delivering a unique solution from the ground up for the Defence sector. It seamlessly integrates infrastructure and applications in highly secure, mission-critical environments. It is an opportunity to make a genuine impact, influence complex technical solutions, and work on a nationally significant programme that few organisations can offer exposure to.
For someone motivated by purpose, scale, and technical complexity, this role offers the chance to see their work directly contribute to outcomes that really matter.
What you will be doing:
- Deliver expert L2/L3 support for a complex, multi-site enterprise network, resolving incidents and minimising service disruption.
- Configure and maintain Cisco network infrastructure, including switches, routers, and core connectivity services.
- Support and optimise F5 application delivery and load balancing platforms to ensure availability, performance, and resilience.
- Administer Fortinet firewalls and security services, including policy management, VPN configuration, and security compliance changes.
- Execute planned network changes, upgrades, and site deployments while adhering to change control and security standards.
- Update LLDs, technical documentation, and operational procedures, while supporting wider project delivery and continuous improvement activities.
- Strong knowledge of Cisco routing and switching.
- Experience with Cisco firewalls, including Firepower.
- Experience with Fortinet technologies.
- Active DV Clearance.
- Exposure to F5 and wider network security / DDoS-related tooling.
- Cisco certifications, such as CCNA or CCNP.
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Hertfordshire
Security Clearance Level: Active MoD DV
Internal Recruiter: Josh
Salary: Up to £60k
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy extra days, life assurance, and 6% pension
If you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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.
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.
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.
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.