DV Cleared Senior Network Engineer - NSX | Defence Sector

Senior Network Engineer NSX | Defence Sector

Contract: 6 Months

Location: Yeovil (Fully Onsite, 3 5 days per week with compressed hours available)

Clearance: Current DV Clearance Required

We are looking for an experienced Senior Network Engineer to support the delivery of secure, enterprise-scale infrastructure within a high-security defence environment. This contract offers the opportunity to work on complex networking projects, helping to design, deploy and optimise software-defined networking solutions for mission-critical systems.

Working as part of a specialist technical team, you will take ownership of network design and implementation activities while providing technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle. This is a hands-on role suited to an engineer who enjoys solving complex networking challenges in highly secure environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and support VMware NSX-T networking solutions.
• Deliver software-defined networking (SDN) architectures across secure enterprise environments.
• Configure and troubleshoot complex network infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers throughout project delivery.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, virtualisation and security teams to deliver integrated networking solutions.
• Maintain network security standards and contribute to continuous service improvements.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience with VMware NSX-T or comparable network virtualisation technologies.
• Excellent understanding of enterprise networking, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VPNs, QoS and Cisco networking .
• Experience designing and supporting software-defined networking, micro-segmentation and secure network architectures.
• Knowledge of network security technologies, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, monitoring tools and virtualised infrastructure.
• Proven experience working within complex, secure enterprise or defence environments.
• Ability to lead technical activities, mentor colleagues and take ownership of engineering deliverables.

Desirable Experience

• VMware NSX certification.
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere or vSAN .
• Infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform or APIs .
• Networking experience across AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.

This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong Network Engineer with current DV clearance to contribute to a high-profile programme delivering secure infrastructure within the UK defence sector.