Principal Networks Systems Engineer

Job Description:

Do you want to grow your career in network engineering and work on projects that safeguard the UK’s national interests? At Leonardo, our Network Systems Engineers are at the heart of designing, configuring, and supporting secure networks that keep our customers connected and protected.

Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in meeting customer requirements. The role will involve a mixture of working from home and on site to ensure close collaboration with the wider team. When on site, this is an office- and integration laboratory-based role using network test equipment and a mix of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and military-off-the-shelf (MOTS) IP network and virtual environment technologies.

Your Impact The successful candidate would provide technical expertise within the Land and Naval domain of Leonardo UK with a focus on IP network and virtual environment technologies for, predominantly, communications systems on naval platforms. The successful candidate will be working within an Integrated Project Team and be responsible to the Project System Design Authority for the design, configuration, implementation, documentation, test and verification of resilient network and server data architectures within some of the most demanding naval environments across the whole product lifecycle.

The successful candidate would be expected to work towards Design Authority status for IP networks and virtual environments, providing technical governance over a system’s design, ensuring it is fit for purpose, compliant, architecturally coherent and controlled throughout its lifecycle. Once deployed, the day-to-day support of the networks is generally performed by the customer, with Leonardo UK providing spare equipment and design authority support (such as obsolescence management and approval of configuration changes).

• Architecting, designing and governing current and future naval communication network solutions and their implementation.
• Leading on network design including: production of high- and low-level network designs, development of logical and physical network architectures, definition of layer 2 and layer 3 architectures, production of routing, switching and segmentation strategies, allocation of communication services across network infrastructure.
• All assigned systems engineering aspects of new and existing networks and network applications embodied on naval platforms working at all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Defining network interfaces between communication systems, mission systems and other consumers.
• Support to the capture of design and test artefacts as appropriate for all stages in the engineering lifecycle appropriate for managing existing systems and for taking concepts through to development.
• Test definition, test execution and fault finding across IP networks and hosted systems.
• Development of system installation and setting to work guidance.
• Working closely with customers through the verification and validation stages of projects to ensure systems meet their requirements and needs.

What you’ll bring

• Solid understanding of core networking concepts and protocols.
• Experience with configuring and supporting network devices in enterprise environments.
• Ability to work independently on defined work packages while collaborating effectively with wider teams.
• A proactive approach and willingness to learn new tools and technologies.
• Technical leadership within the scope of the system and its technology.

Core areas (must have):

• Practical experience of network implementation, setting to work and verification including interfacing communication systems, fault finding, fault resolution, electrical safety…