Hampshire/Hybrid (2 - 3 days wfh)
Join a 24/7 on-call rota (1 week in 4)
£60,000 - £70,000 (depending on experience)
Candidates must be willing and eligible to go through SC and DV security clearance
If you've served in the RAF, Royal Signals, 14 Signal Regiment, REME or another defence communications or infrastructure role, and enjoy solving technical problems where reliability really matters, we'd like to hear from you. We're recruiting a Field Service Engineer to support advanced defence technology across secure customer sites throughout the UK for a client who are a leading tech and engineering firm operating within defence.
This isn't a desk-based support role.
You'll be out with customers maintaining critical systems, supporting military exercises, carrying out technology upgrades, diagnosing complex faults and ensuring operational capability is always maintained. Whether your experience comes from deployed operations, secure headquarters, NATO exercises or supporting classified infrastructure, your background is highly relevant.
Responsibilities:
Support mission-critical systems across secure defence sites
Carry out planned maintenance, firmware updates and infrastructure upgrades
Diagnose and repair hardware faults through structured root cause analysis
Install and configure servers, network infrastructure and virtual environments
Support military exercises, trials and customer acceptance testing
Deliver operator and maintainer training
Provide remote 1st/2nd line support when required
Work closely with MoD customers, providing clear technical updates and confidence throughout incidents
We're looking for engineers with experience in:
Royal Air Force, Royal Signals, 14 Signal Regiment, REME or Defence Communications
Electronic Warfare or secure defence systems
Supporting operational or deployed IT infrastructure
Cisco networking, routers and switches
Windows Server 2016/2019/2022
VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V, LAN, WAN and VLAN networking
Firewalls and secure network infrastructure (CCNA advantageous)
Hardware installation, preventative maintenance and lifecycle management
Cryptographic equipment
Satellite communications or resilient communications systems
Working across Official, Secret or Top Secret environments
Customer-facing engineering within the MoDYou'll need
HNC/HND or Degree in Engineering (or equivalent military experience)
Full UK Driving Licence
Eligibility for SC and DV Security Clearance
Flexibility to travel to customer sites and occasional overseas opportunities
Why Join
You'll continue supporting technology that genuinely matters while working with some of the UK's most advanced defence systems.
This role offers varied engineering work, direct customer interaction, ongoing technical development and the opportunity to remain at the forefront of secure defence capability.
If you've maintained operational military communications, deployed infrastructure or classified IT systems, your experience is exactly what we're looking for.
If you are interested in this role, please submit your CV
Salary description
£60000.00 - £70000.00 per year