Network Operations Engineer, Sovereign Operations, Hampshire
Operations
London, UK
Posted on Sep 21, 2026
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Must be a British citizen to meet compliance and security clearance requirements. The office location will be a satellite site in Hampshire, with occasional travel to London. This is an on-site position, requiring a standard five day per week schedule in the office. Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Networking, Information Security, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience with Linux Systems Administration and kernel level/data plane cloud native networking.
- Experience with one or more scripting languages e.g. Python, Bash, Poweshell.
- Experience with designing and implementing resilient, secure networks using a wide range of technologies.
- Active, or the ability to obtain, a Developed Vetting (DV) UK security clearance.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience deploying and operating production workloads in Kubernetes.
- Experience designing and implementing configuration management solutions to enable network and cloud platform operations (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet).
- Understanding of the Kubernetes networking model, along with experience debugging CNI plugin (e.g., Cilium) configurations and Service Mesh (e.g., Istio) architectures.
- Excellent partner management, follow-through, resourcefulness, attention to detail, and verbal and written communication skills.
- Current and active UK Security Check (SC) or UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.