Network Operations Engineer

Salary: £160,000 - 200,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Networking, Information Security, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with Linux systems administration and kernel-level/data plane cloud native networking.
• Experience with one or more scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience designing and implementing resilient, secure networks using a wide range of technologies.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a Developed Vetting (DV) UK security clearance.
• Experience deploying and operating production workloads in Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and implementing configuration management solutions to enable network and cloud platform operations, such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet.
• Understanding of the Kubernetes networking model, with experience debugging CNI plugin configurations such as Cilium and service mesh architectures such as Istio.
• Excellent partner management, follow-through, resourcefulness, attention to detail, and verbal and written communication skills.
• Current and active UK Security Check (SC) or UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.
• Must be a British citizen to meet compliance and security clearance requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Engage and improve the whole life cycle of secure cloud platform network systems.
• Assist Engineering and Operations teams in building an ecosystem of integration, empowering software automation to scale within private and secure networks.
• Maintain, secure, and debug cross-cluster communications in an air-gapped Kubernetes infrastructure using Cilium for eBPF-based container networking and Istio for microservice communication.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by implementing changes that improve network reliability, security, and performance.
• Work cross-functionally to drive Infrastructure as Code and GitOps pipelines, ensuring network configurations are deployed programmatically.
• Provide highly technical implementation and operational support in customer environments, including guidance on implementation feasibility of cross-product integrations.
• Design and operate reliable and resilient networks.
• Automate changes, implement monitoring, and manage core network components.
• Bridge cloud native infrastructure engineering and platform networking, focusing on software defined networking within a Kubernetes architecture.
• Configure and maintain cloud platform infrastructure, virtual networking resources, and automation workflows from inception to optimization.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure incidents can be swiftly resolved.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• Bash
• Cloud
• GitOps
• Istio
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Network
• PowerShell
• Puppet
• Python
• Security
• Terraform

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We are the United Kingdom Sovereign Operations team in Google Public Sector, delivering, operating, and securing private cloud services for customers with high security requirements that can only be met in a private cloud environment. We provide the flexibility, reliability, and scalability of public cloud in private cloud deployments, supporting critical customers and working closely with Google product teams to continually improve our technology. This is a Network Operations Engineer role on our UK team, based on-site at a satellite site in Hampshire with occasional travel to London, on a standard five-day-per-week office schedule.

last updated 36 week of 2026