# Senior Network Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Farnborough
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £58,400.00-£74,900.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a Network Engineer to support the development, transition & in-service running of data centre hosted IT application and infrastructure solution providing support to a critical operational end user.

The role will provide technical exposure variance across both outcomes-based project activities and operational support activities.

Key Responsibilities:

- Providing network engineering skills and produce low level designs as part of the delivery team

- Work with delivery teams to implement modern, highly available, scalable networks using a range of new and emerging technologies including automation

- Input into network management and acceptance aspects including setting standards and providing technical expertise to Leidos programme teams

- Utilise the concepts and principles of verification and validation to deliver relevant network designs

- Collaborate with customers on all aspects of network management including the assurance and integration of infrastructure services to meet the needs of multiple lines of business

- Recognise and exploit business opportunities by leveraging architecture and design best practice

- Communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context.

What We Are Looking For:

- Strong knowledge and demonstrable experience of data centre and campus networking technologies: Juniper (routing, switching, firewalls), Fortigate (Next Gen firewalls), F5 (global and local load balancing), encryption;

- Strong understanding of routing protocols (static and dynamic) in data centre, campus and wide area networks; With a thorough understanding of BGP.

- Strong experience of operating high availability data centre networks supporting critical workloads on Windows, Linux and SAN including technical refresh of large numbers of devices;

- Strong experience of monitoring and management tooling including Solarwinds, FMC, Panorama;

- Have good general knowledge of Windows Server Environments, (including OS build, AD, DNS, DHCP and GPO) and Linux (RHEL) data centre server infrastructures;

- Have excellent analysis and problem-solving skills, taking ownership of complex incidents ensuring these are resolved to the satisfaction of the customer;

- Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills;

- Knowledge and experience of working in Agile and or Scaled Agile delivery teams where secure by design is the approach to delivery.

Benefits:

- Contributory Pension Scheme

- Private Medical Insurance

- 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)

- Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

- Access to Flexi-time benefits

## Skills

### Required
- Juniper
- Fortigate
- F5
- BGP
- Solarwinds
- FMC
- Panorama
- Windows Server
- Linux
- RHEL

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