Senior Network Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Network Engineer

Location: Frimley. This role will require full on site working

Salary: Negotiable dependent on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing the verification and validation of designs ready for testing

• Providing support to external suppliers as and when required to ensure secure and robust communications

• Oversee the investigation of issues and suggesting resolutions/updates to design teams as part of their day-to-day routine

• Maintain and update the test database whilst applying learning from test runs to future test sets

• Produce documentation required to support the design review process, including: diagrams; technical specifications; supporting calculations; design evidence and justifications

• Ensure network design proving evidence is comprehensive, captured within the requirements management tools and has been endorsed by the appropriate level of authority

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Strong Virtual and Physical Network Architecture experience will be required

• Previous experience of working with spine and leaf network configurations/architectures

• You will need to have worked with implementing and configuration of VRFs and VLANs

• Network gateway configurations and protocols experience

• Previous experience of working with Network firewalls

• Knowledge and experience of BGP. LLDP, Spanning tree, clustering

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The team:

By joining us in this exciting opportunity, you will be supporting with the development of our cutting-edge Submarine programmes. With a strong and growing order book, there are significant opportunities within the wider BAE Systems business for career progression and development. The scale and scope of the organisation offer individuals the ability to shape their career path and grow in alignment with their ambitions. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 26th August 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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