# Principal Network Engineer

Job Description: Your impact Are you ready to take on complex technical challenges and shape secure networks that underpin the UK’s most critical missions? At Leonardo, our Principal Network Engineers are recognised as subject matter experts, providing advanced technical authority and leading the design, integration, and delivery of resilient network solutions. Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers. What you will do as a Principal Network Engineer Act as the technical authority across one or more networking domains (LAN/WAN, cloud, security, or SDN). Lead the design and implementation of secure networks across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. Capture and analyse complex requirements, shaping high- and low-level network designs. Ensure secure-by-design principles are embedded across all network solutions. Own technical delivery within work packages, including planning,

- **Id**: 4223670
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leonardo-principal-network-engineer>
- **Role**: Networking
- **Role family**: Networking
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bristol, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T06:46:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6134
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Gym membership, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: C4ISR, Defense Manufacturing, Aircraft Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 54177
- **Name**: Leonardo
- **Domain**: leonardo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leonardo-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 201
- **Ghost share**: 0.005
- **Stale share**: 0.955
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **MPLS** — Optional: no
- **OSPF** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Active Directory** — Optional: yes
- **DNS** — Optional: yes
- **PKI** — Optional: yes
- **SIEM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T06:46:19Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Secondment Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Secondment Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T12:15:38Z

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