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Network Engineer - Security Clearance / MOD
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Network Engineer – Defence
Security Clearances Required
£65k - £85k + benefits
Farnborough based
This role sits within a team responsible for building and supporting secure cloud infrastructure in a highly secure environment.
The position combines traditional network engineering with cloud-native platform networking, supporting Kubernetes-based services operating within air-gapped infrastructure. You'll work across both physical and virtual networking layers, helping maintain secure, resilient and highly available platforms.
Key responsibilities include:
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- Supporting and improving secure cloud platform networking
- Maintaining and troubleshooting cross-cluster communications within air-gapped Kubernetes environments
- Configuring and supporting software-defined networking technologies
- Implementing automation to reduce operational overhead and improve platform reliability
- Supporting platform upgrades, maintenance activities and incident resolution
The team is looking for engineers with experience in several of the following areas:
- IP networking, WAN technologies and Layer 2-7 networking
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
- Linux systems administration
- Kubernetes administration in production environments
- Kubernetes networking, including CNI technologies such as Cilium
- Service Mesh technologies such as Istio
- MPLS L3 VPN or cloud-native networking
- Infrastructure automation using Bash, Python, Git or similar tools
- Supporting secure and resilient network environments
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This role would suit a Network Engineer who enjoys troubleshooting complex environments, automating repetitive tasks and working across both traditional networking and modern cloud-native platforms.
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