Network Capability Manager

Are you a senior network leader looking for your next career
move? Do you want to lead a critical capability delivering secure network
services across government and defence clients?

As our Network Capability Lead, you’ll take ownership of a
broad and strategically important domain covering routing, switching,
firewalling, network design and performance, along with the specialist
platforms and monitoring tools that underpin secure operations. You’ll be the
single accountable leader for the domain – setting technical direction,
defining engineering standards, and leading the people who deliver against
them.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability
to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your
needs, and training and development opportunities. This role is primarily
remote, with travel required as needed for customer engagement, collaboration,
and key meetings.

What you'll be doing:

- Providing
senior technical leadership and strategic direction for the network
domain, working through Principal Architects and Engineers to define
standards and patterns.
- Owning
and maintaining technical standards, reference architectures, and approved
patterns across multiple teams and client environments.
- Leading
and developing engineers within the capability, with full accountability
for performance, progression, and overall people outcomes.
- Representing
the domain in Design Authority forums and contributing to cross-capability
technical alignment.
- Acting
as the final point of technical escalation, making sound decisions where
risk or differing expert views exist.
- Leading
recruitment for technical roles within the domain, defining requirements
and assessing candidates for suitability.

What you’ll bring:

- Strong
senior technical leadership experience within infrastructure, with
credibility recognised by engineering peers.
- Proven
ability to lead, develop and grow technical teams in complex delivery
environments.
- Experience
setting and maintaining technical standards across multiple teams or
accounts.
- Strong
network engineering background across routing, switching, firewalling and
secure network environments.
- Ability
to make sound technical judgements in real delivery contexts, not just
theoretical design.
- Experience
working in enterprise or multi-supplier environments, including secure or
classified networks.

It would be great if you had:

- Experience
working within a supplier or systems integrator delivering to UK public
sector clients.
- Experience
in capability or practice leadership models beyond project or programme
delivery.
- A
track record of mentoring and developing senior engineers or architects.
- Experience
working with workforce planning or HR functions on recruitment and
performance.
- Experience
supporting government, defence, or critical national infrastructure
clients.
- Familiarity
with vendor platforms such as Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 or equivalent
technologies.

If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your
skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d
love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.
Location: UK-based – remote with travel as required.
Security Clearance Level: Security cleared – minimum eligibility for SC
clearance, with route to DV where required.
Internal Recruiter: Rebecca.
Salary: £85,000 – £100,000.
Benefits: MIP bonus, £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the
option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and
generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe
that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your
motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support
different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working
arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage
you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about
us?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and
deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a
real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a
unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional
development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing
knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees
feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer,
delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex
safety- and security-critical markets.