Location
Farnborough/Newbury, or regional site (Birmingham, Livingston, Bristol, Northern Ireland)
Hybrid Working
Hybrid working
Salary and Benefits
Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits.
Working Hours
Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday.
Duration
8 months.
Security Clearance
This position requires the ability to obtain and hold SC (Security Clearance).
Job Overview
Join Vodafone Business Security Enhanced and strengthen the cyber security of the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure and public sector organisations.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the end-to-end design of network solutions, ensuring alignment to customer architecture principles and business requirements.
- Produce and maintain high- and low-level design documentation (HLD/LLD), ensuring accuracy, traceability and compliance with security and operational standards.
- Ensure designs meet security, compliance and operational readiness requirements, supporting governance processes and design approvals.
- Support planning, testing and phased rollout of network solutions, ensuring designs are deliverable, validated and ready for operational handover.
- Manage stakeholder engagement and design governance, clearly communicating progress, risks and technical decisions to internal and external parties.
Who You Are
- Strong experience designing enterprise network solutions, ideally with Fortinet (FortiGate, SD‑WAN, IPSec/ADVPN).
- Solid understanding of IP networking and secure design principles, including WAN/LAN, routing and segmentation.
- Proven experience producing HLD/LLD documentation, with a focus on clarity, accuracy and alignment to standards.
- Knowledge of security, compliance and operational readiness requirements, including testing, assurance and service handover.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, able to clearly articulate designs, risks and decisions across technical and non‑technical audiences.
- The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain SC level security clearance.
Benefits
We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. You can personalise our benefits for you and your family, like discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and many more. We help with your career through our amazing learning tools and top‑notch parental leave policies.
Regulatory 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 regulator’s standards.
Accessibility and Reasonable Adjustments
If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website for guidance.
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