Systems Engineer - Network Architect

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Company description

Our client is a global high-tech company and a leading player in Aerospace, Defence and Security. It is one of the biggest suppliers of defence and security equipment to the UK MOD operating from 7 main sites across the UK and employing over 7,500 highly skilled people.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

• Flexible working: They offer their employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part-time options
• Custom working: The role may be a mixture of home-based and onsite
• Flexible benefits: Their company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.
• Network groups: To support their ongoing commitment to diversity & and inclusion, they have a range of network groups for colleagues
• Carers (employees caring for family or friends)
• Enable (supporting people with disabilities)
• Equalise (development of a gender-balanced workforce)
• Pride (promoting equality for all LGBTQ+ individuals)
• Ethnicity Inclusion (developing a more ethnically based workforce)
• Wellbeing (promoting & and supporting employee wellbeing)
• Training: Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses
• Continuous Learning: You will be supported in your ongoing professional development through training and mentoring
• Investors in People: They are proud recipients of the Investors in People Silver Award
• Employee Assistance Programme: Providing free and confidential mental health support
• Annual leave: They offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and 8 flexi days

Key Responsibility Areas

• Investigate different approaches for the design of airborne mesh networks
• Specify networking simulations using either third-party simulation tools or an internal developed simulation environment.
• Analyse the results of simulations and propose how to improve the design.
• Assist efforts to create standardisation proposals.

You must be eligible for full security clearance.

Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge Required
You really must have:

• Good understanding of networking protocols including knowledge of the function of the different protocols in the stack, what the alternatives are and why they have been designed as they are.
• The ability to design meaningful experiments and interpret the results.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate ideas to varied audiences.

It would be nice if you had knowledge/experience of:

• Research to investigate novel networking algorithms
• Commonly used network simulation tools
• Software engineering techniques
• Wireless communications
  
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