Location: Newbury + Hybrid
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday
Security Clearance: This position requires you to hold or the ability and willingness to obtain a Secured Vetting (SC) clearance.
Hybrid Working
We believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things. Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing flexibility and resources you need to succeed. You are expected to come into the office 2-3 days each week, for at least 8 days per month.
What You’ll Do
- Lead integration activities between highly specialised compliance platforms and Vodafone’s UK mobile network, including Ericsson core network components, IP infrastructure, and supporting IT systems
- Act as a trusted technical authority within your area of expertise (IP, UNIX/Linux, mobile core networks, or systems integration), shaping integration design, configuration, and validation
- Work closely with architecture and design leads to ensure all integrations align with security, operational, and regulatory requirements
- Collaborate day‑to‑day with Ericsson and other trusted third‑party vendors, helping to align systems, interfaces, data flows, and operational behaviours
- Step in as a senior escalation point for complex incidents, leading investigations across network, platform, and integration domains and driving issues through to resolution
- Support planned changes, upgrades, and enhancements, ensuring stability, auditability, and security before, during, and after change windows
- Mentor and support junior engineers, sharing your knowledge through hands‑on guidance, documentation, and development of learning pathways that strengthen the whole team
- Operate with the highest levels of professionalism, discretion, and integrity when handling sensitive systems and information in a regulated, security‑sensitive environment
Who You Are
- Significant hands‑on experience in one or more of the following areas: IP networking, UNIX/Linux systems and platform integration, mobile network engineering, complex systems integration across network and IT estates
- Strong experience integrating systems across multiple technical domains, with a solid understanding of interfaces, data flows, protocols, and dependencies
- Background working in large‑scale telecommunications or similarly complex, networked environments (experience with Ericsson technologies is a plus)
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues in live environments involving multiple systems and vendors
- Confidence working with senior engineers, vendors, and stakeholders, providing technical leadership without formal line management responsibility
- A collaborative mindset and enjoyment of sharing knowledge, mentoring others, and helping teams grow sustainably
- Eligibility for, or existing SC security clearance, with the judgement and professionalism required for sensitive operational roles
What We Offer
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 more. We help with your career through learning tools and top‑notch parental leave policies.
Need to Know
We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. All offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet regulatory standards. 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 (https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/reasonable-adjustments/) for guidance.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply. Through the ‘Offer an Interview’ scheme we aim to offer interviews to a fair and proportionate number of applicants with disabilities who best meet the essential criteria for vacancies.
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