Network Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close‑knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

This role is primarily remote, with travel to UK locations. This may extend to international locations also.

• Guardian: a call taking & dispatching platform used by emergency service operators across the UK & Europe.
• Pronto: a digital notebook service providing front line police officers with access to national systems to obtain information quickly and efficiently when working within their communities.

• Manage and support networking operations across multiple Motorola sites and customer remote sites.
• Maintain firewall rules, routing policies, NAT and security objects across multiple technologies.
• Design, review & maintain network documentation and topology diagrams.
• Work with third‑party vendors to troubleshoot outages / circuit faults etc.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation (begins after 6 months of service).
• Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning and optimisation.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and regulatory requirements from a public sector perspective, such as ISO
  27001, Cyber Essentials and NCSC Security best practices.
• Travel to any of our internal or customer sites as necessary, all located in the UK but may involve international travel.
• Support the Incident Management team in ensuring efficient delivery and resolution of incidents and problems with a solution.
• Engage in continuous personal and professional development.

• 3 years minimum experience in a similar role.
• Ability to attain NPPV3 and SC clearance.
• Must be a resident of the UK for a minimum of 5 years to obtain clearance.

Must effectively articulate network concepts and solutions to diverse audiences, including technical peers, non‑technical stakeholders, customers, and internal staff.

• Strong understanding of Layer2 and Layer3 networking concepts (VLANs, routing protocols, subnetting, STP).
• Hands‑on experience with Aruba Switches (or other vendors e.g. Cisco, HP, Juniper).
• Experience in managing and troubleshooting private circuits.
• Experience with WAN technologies (DIA, IPSEC over Internet, EWLs).

• Strong understanding of routing protocols (OSPF / BGP).
• Experience designing and maintaining multi‑site routing topologies.
• Experience troubleshooting routing problems (routing loops, asymmetric routing, route redistribution issues etc.).

• Administration of a large firewall estate across multiple sites (Fortinet / Checkpoint).
• Experience writing, reviewing and maintaining firewall rulesets aligned with operational policy and security standards.
• Familiarity with NAT (static / dynamic / PAT), UTM features, IDS/IPS policies.
• Knowledge of VPN technologies (IPSEC, IKEV2, route based).

• Experience taking packet captures and using analysis tools such as Wireshark to troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• Experience with network monitoring (Grafana/Prometheus/Solarwinds/Fortianalyser).
• Experience identifying security best practices when deploying solutions.

• Experience with SD‑WAN solutions (Fortinet SD‑WAN).
• Basic understanding of SD‑WAN configuration such as overlay and underlay, path selection, link monitoring.
• Experience with SIP technologies.
• Experience with SDN technologies (VMware NSX, Cisco ACI, OVN).
• Experience with Red Hat Open Shift solutions.

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
• Company car scheme.
• Private medical insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Flexible working options.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.
• Employee health and wellbeing support (EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.).
• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.
• Well known companies discount schemes.

10‑25% travel.

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally‑protected characteristic.