Location
Farnborough/Newbury, or regional site (Birmingham, Livingston, Bristol, Northern Ireland). Hybrid working.
Salary
Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits.
Working Hours
Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday.
Security Clearance
Requires the ability to obtain and hold SC (Security Clearance). The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain SC level security clearance.
Hybrid Working
We don’t require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2‑3 days each week, for at least 8 days per month. Work with your line manager to understand expectations for your role and team.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the architectural direction for network services, ensuring alignment to customer and business strategy.
- Govern design standards, patterns and reference architectures, driving consistency, re‑use and adherence to customer architecture principles.
- Assure solution compliance with security, regulatory, performance and availability requirements, including oversight of risk and remediation activities.
- Provide technical leadership and design authority across engineering, operations and security teams, ensuring alignment to architectural intent and resolution of complex issues.
- Own stakeholder engagement and technical governance, communicating design decisions, risks and progress to internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Strong experience designing enterprise network security solutions, ideally using Fortinet (FortiGate, SD‑WAN, IPSec/ADVPN) – Essential.
- Solid understanding of IP networking and secure design, including routing, WAN/LAN and segmentation – Essential.
- Experience defining design standards and scalable architectures, balancing customer needs with re‑use and consistency – Essential.
- Knowledge of security and compliance requirements, including penetration testing, risk remediation, and logging/monitoring integration – Nice to have.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder skills, able to lead technical discussions and influence decisions across teams.
Benefits
We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, paid time for charity work. Personalise our benefits for you and your family, like discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and loads more. We help with your career through our amazing learning tools and top‑notch parental leave policies.
Legal and Compliance
We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators’ standards.
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