NETWORK ENGINEER

Position Description.
CGI is a leader in mission-critical software systems for the space industry.
We work on the major European navigation, communication and earth observation programmes and are specialists in space security and ground control systems.
Over 35 years’ experience of the space business coupled with commercial and technical expertise, with a reputation for resilient, innovative, secure and highly cost-effective programmes.
Our in-depth space sector knowledge and our contribution to major technical advances ensure that we contribute to many of the world’s most prestigious space programmes, including Cassini-Huygens, Galileo, Copernicus, Inmarsat 4, MSG, MTG, MTSAT, Rosetta, Skynet and XMM-Newton.
Our software has supported the missions of more than 200 satellites.
CGI has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Network Engineer to work on a project delivering and supporting mission-critical software.
Please note.
Due to the nature of the role, it's not always possible to work from home.
We ask that any prospective candidates are willing to travel to our Leatherhead office (Surrey) 3-4 days per week so please consider when applying.
All candidates must be eligible to undergo SC clearance should this be required for any projects.
Your future duties and responsibilities.
CGI are delivering a cutting-edge 5G/SatComs project for a high-profile client, including integrating a 5G private network and SatComs links supplied by major operators.
The successful candidate will be part of the infrastructure team implementing the solution including integrating the constituent parts together.
This will include for example building VM environments, implementing networking solutions, firewalls and automated scripting.
The ideal candidate should be keen to learn new technologies as well as applying their own experience to optimising the solution as it is deployed, and trouble-shooting.
You will have direct interaction with the customer, to understand their requirements and iterate to achieve the best solution.
You will work as part of a wider project team, supported directly by a senior team leader with many years of experience of designing and implementing infrastructure solutions.
Key Duties & Responsibilities.
- Creation and maintenance of build and design docs - Implementation of infrastructure solutions - CGI lab - Implementation of infrastructure solutions - client site - Test and validation of solutions - Researching new COTS solutions and applying them.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role.
We're looking for a range of the following skills and experiences.
- Networking; good understanding of basic networks (UDP/TCP/IP) IPv4, Switching, Routing etc - Firewalls.
Fortinet / PFSense/ Juniper.
install/configuration/ maintenance.
Understanding of VPNs - VMware/ Hyper-V Building/ setup and deployment of VM environments.
- Linux Administration Build/configure/maintain - Willingness to learn new technologies Desired competencies for this role.
- Understanding of 5G / Telecoms background - Understanding of satellite communications networks - NMS Zabbix/ Grafana Skills.
Configuration Management Firewalls Linux 5G Satellite Communications Satellite Communications What you can expect from us.
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