Job Title: Baseband Network Architect
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Baseband Network Architect at our Hawthorn site.
The role
As a Baseband Network Architect, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The role will provide IP and Serial networking expertise to baseband projects across the Skynet programme.
Day-to-day, you’ll design and implement networking solutions through to supporting handover to operational support, considering multi-supplier/multi-platform environments across the estate acting as Baseband Technical Design Authority (TDA) for the Skynet network, applying the principles of secure network, applications, gateways & interfaces across the estate, as well as:
1. Support Incident Response teams acting as a 4th line technical lead to resolve complex technical problems.
2. Provide input into the technical steering community and various project working groups, defining requirements for Suppliers, ensuring the proposal and deliverable meets the needs of the business and produce, peer-review and maintain high-level, low-level technical documentation and network schematics.
3. Support the delivery of Baseband Architectures/Strategies as part of a broader Enterprise and IS/IT Architecture, interpreting and applying appropriate standards, policies and legislation whilst working with Information Assurance (IA) leads from the programme.
4. Evaluate new technologies and deliver cost benefit analysis to support business use cases to identify and mitigate technology and service risks.
5. Develop, implement & maintain processes to ensure the continued reliability, supportability, and operation of Skynet networks.
This role is full time and is a hybrid role with a mixture of working from home and working onsite at our Hawthorn location.
Essential experience of the Baseband Network Architect:
6. Experience in implementing and supporting common network technologies in enterprise environments including those from Cisco, Juniper and Fortinet. A strong understanding of Cisco ASR/ISR Routing and a valid CCNP Routing & Switching Certification
7. Experience in design and implementation of both cloud, on premises and hybrid network topologies
8. Experience in design and implementation of Cisco Catalyst Core, DNAC, Catalyst Manager - Distribution & LAN Access Switching, WAN (SDA – SD-WAN Fabric deployment experience essential).
9. Experience in the production and implementation of High Level and Low-Level Design’s
10. Experience of JSP and ‘Secure by Design’ security principals
Qualifications for the Baseband Network Architect:
11. CCNP Routing & Switching Certification
12. HNC (Level 4) or equivalent in a STEM subject
Security Clearance
13. The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
14. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK ()
What we offer
15. Generous holiday allowance
16. Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
17. Employee share scheme
18. Employee shopping savings portal
19. Payment of Professional Fees
20. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
21. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
22. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity