Sopra Steria is developing a new Managed Service to replace a complex legacy Enterprise infrastructure. This will require a high level of automation and repeatable component design patterns to allow the deployment of customer business solutions within short time frames. The project will make heavy use of Windows and VMware technologies, along with Ansible, Terraform and Scripting supported by niche infrastructure and applications.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer with expertise in VMware NSX, F5 and VMware AVI within a Hyperconverged Infrastructure environment (HCI).We can offer great career progression opportunities, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

Design, implement, and maintain network solutions using NSX-T, AVI, and Secure Linux technologies to support hyper-converged infrastructure environments.
Lead the deployment and configuration of NSX-T components, including logical networking, distributed firewall, load balancer, and VPN services, to enable network virtualisation and micro-segmentation.
Deploy and maintain AVI load balancers for modern application delivery, automation, and analytics, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
Perform capacity planning and scalability assessments to ensure network infrastructures can support current and future growth requirements.
Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of network designs, configurations, change records, and operational procedures.

What you’ll bring:

VMware NSX or NSX-T or NSX-V.
VMware AVI Load Balancers.
Familiarity with Tiered access model.

It would be great if you had:

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)
Network Monitoring and Management
Security Best Practices
Active SC or DV Clearance

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, PermanentLocation: FarnboroughSecurity Clearance Level: Current SC Clearance and eligible for DVInternal Recruiter: Carolyne Salary: £56,000Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, 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.