Job title: Network Engineer (Defence / OSPF) - Outside IR35
Job type: Contract
Emp type: Full-time
Pay interval: Daily
Pay rate from: GBP £475.00
Pay rate to: GBP £525.00
Location: Farnborough
Job published: 20/01/2026
Job ID: 40106
Contact name: Emma Homann, Mark Burgess
Phone number: +441962442047, +441962442045
Contact email: emma@talentlocker.co.uk, mark@talentlocker.co.uk

Job Description

Contract Network Engineer, Outside IR35, £500 per day, Farnborough

Contract position at a Defence consultancy, outside IR35 for a specialist network engineer to work on building something from scratch.  This is working amongst a team of other technology professionals on an MOD/Defence project, from Farnborough.

PLEASE NOTE - The nature of this project will require the work to be carried out onsite and successful candidates will be required to be security cleared (SC Level) prior to appointment.

Experience required:

  • Secure environment (Defence/MOD/government etc)
  • Network Engineering with WAN/LAN etc.
  • Networking routing protocols - Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
  • VPNS and Network Security
  • HLD/LLD

If you also have experience with Data centre network architecture, high assurance IP encryptors Infrastructure automation, Whitebox network infrastructure, NSX,  Cisco CCNP certified – that would all be great.

Any experience with Cryptology and cryptography would be helpful.

If you are a network engineer with lots of Defence/MOD/Secure By Design experience with OSPF experience, available for a new outside IR35 contract – please apply.