What Jobs are available for Telecommunications Companies in the United Kingdom?

Introduction

Saab in UK is growing rapidly, with over 500 colleagues across eight sites. We bring together Swedish heritage and British expertise to drive innovation in areas such as software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training. Joining Saab in UK means contributing to the security and resilience of society while building a career with real scope for personal and professional growth.

What you will be part of
Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here

The Role

The Saab Training and Simulation team are looking for an energetic and motivated team player to join their team in Wiltshire/Hampshire area as a Communication & Information Systems Technician. This Saab facility provides the technical and logistical support to a wide range of laser based training equipment used by The British Army. The Communication Sub System (CSS) and Exercise Control (Excon) equipment allows for data capture and analysis of the training. Although predominantly based in the warehouse facility, the job offers the opportunity of some travel to support other Saab sites and British Army exercises.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in planning and preparation of CSS/Excon equipment (packing, system configuration, testing).

• Issue and receipt of CSS/Excon equipment.

• Corrective and preventative maintenance of CSS/Excon equipment.

• Technical troubleshooting including helpdesk support to field teams.

• Telescopic mast work and maintenance.

• Occasional in-field technical support of exercises to include set-up/tear down of CSS and Excon and through-exercise system monitoring and trouble shooting.

• Instructing equipment use.

• Requirement for occasional extended working hours (including some weekend work).

Experience & Qualifications

Essential

• Good communication skills with the ability to interact with military and civilian staff.

• Full UK driving license.

• Maths and English academic qualifications (GCSE A-C grade or equivalent).

• GCSE/BTEC or equivalent in ICT.

• Experience within IT showing a good understanding of Windows OS, Microsoft products and networking.

• Willingness to work in a military environment.

Desirable

• Forklift operating license.

• Previous mast work experience.

By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview.

Introduction

Saab in UK is growing rapidly, with over 500 colleagues across eight sites. We bring together Swedish heritage and British expertise to drive innovation in areas such as software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training. Joining Saab in UK means contributing to the security and resilience of society while building a career with real scope for personal and professional growth.

What you will be part of
Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here

The Role

The Saab Training and Simulation team are looking for an energetic and motivated team player to join their team in Wiltshire/Hampshire area as a Communication & Information Systems Technician. This Saab facility provides the technical and logistical support to a wide range of laser based training equipment used by The British Army. The Communication Sub System (CSS) and Exercise Control (Excon) equipment allows for data capture and analysis of the training. Although predominantly based in the warehouse facility, the job offers the opportunity of some travel to support other Saab sites and British Army exercises.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in planning and preparation of CSS/Excon equipment (packing, system configuration, testing).

• Issue and receipt of CSS/Excon equipment.

• Corrective and preventative maintenance of CSS/Excon equipment.

• Technical troubleshooting including helpdesk support to field teams.

• Telescopic mast work and maintenance.

• Occasional in-field technical support of exercises to include set-up/tear down of CSS and Excon and through-exercise system monitoring and trouble shooting.

• Instructing equipment use.

• Requirement for occasional extended working hours (including some weekend work).

Experience & Qualifications

Essential

• Good communication skills with the ability to interact with military and civilian staff.

• Full UK driving license.

• Maths and English academic qualifications (GCSE A-C grade or equivalent).

• GCSE/BTEC or equivalent in ICT.

• Experience within IT showing a good understanding of Windows OS, Microsoft products and networking.

• Willingness to work in a military environment.

Desirable

• Forklift operating license.

• Previous mast work experience.

By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview.

• Providing 3rd line technical support across the IT Infrastructure environment including cloud technologies and telephony networks. Ensuring that all incidents, problems, and requests are progressed and updated through to completion.
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and secure infrastructure solutions within a contact centre environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement network policies, procedures, and best practices.

• A minimum of 5 years experience at least 3 of which must be at 3rd Line Support Engineer/Infrastructure & Network level.
• At least 2 years IT experience within in a contact centre environment.
• Excellent Microsoft administration skills to include Azure AD, Intune, O365, Entra, Exchange, SharePoint.
• Excellent experience of infrastructure components like Networking, Server platforms, storage, application structure (2-tier, 3-tier), Identity, Security (Encryption, PKI), load balancing.
• Experience of administration and troubleshooting within Office 365, Azure, Active Directory, Intune, Entra.
• Experience working with a large application estate running IIS & SQL.
• Experience managing infrastructure estates using configuration management and application management & monitoring tools. Strong & demonstrable experience migrating workloads to cloud platforms.

Expleo is standing up a new Algorithms & Infrastructure Engineering team to support Underwater Systems (UWS) in Cheadle. This is a collective capability build rather than isolated individual placements - the team will operate collaboratively across containerisation, networking, and virtualised computing domains to deliver secure, high-performance environments for advanced sonar and mission systems.

• Architect and manage secure network infrastructures supporting containerised and virtualised workloads.
• Lead on the integration of Kubernetes, Docker/Podman deployments into air-gapped defence networks.
• Configure and optimise Linux systems for high-throughput, low-latency environments.
• Design and maintain network segregation, VLANs, routing, and multicast configurations for constrained military environments.
• Support virtualisation platforms (KVM, QEMU, hypervisors) and their interaction with networking layers.
• Collaborate closely with software and algorithm engineers to ensure seamless system interoperability.

• Expert Linux networking and system internals knowledge.
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, multicast, VLANs, routing, and network name spaces.
• Proven experience integrating containerised workloads into secure, distributed environments.
• Familiarity with defence-grade or air-gapped systems and corresponding security practices.

• Exposure to naval/sonar mission systems or similar real-time data environments.
• Experience with firewalling, ACLs, and encryption technologies.
• Network performance monitoring and optimisation within virtualised or containerised systems.

• SC Clearance

• Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

Expleo is standing up a new Algorithms & Infrastructure Engineering team to support Underwater Systems (UWS) in Cheadle. This is a collective capability build rather than isolated individual placements - the team will operate collaboratively across containerisation, networking, and virtualised computing domains to deliver secure, high-performance environments for advanced sonar and mission systems.

• Architect and manage secure network infrastructures supporting containerised and virtualised workloads.
• Lead on the integration of Kubernetes, Docker/Podman deployments into air-gapped defence networks.
• Configure and optimise Linux systems for high-throughput, low-latency environments.
• Design and maintain network segregation, VLANs, routing, and multicast configurations for constrained military environments.
• Support virtualisation platforms (KVM, QEMU, hypervisors) and their interaction with networking layers.
• Collaborate closely with software and algorithm engineers to ensure seamless system interoperability.

• Expert Linux networking and system internals knowledge.
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, multicast, VLANs, routing, and network name spaces.
• Proven experience integrating containerised workloads into secure, distributed environments.
• Familiarity with defence-grade or air-gapped systems and corresponding security practices.

• Exposure to naval/sonar mission systems or similar real-time data environments.
• Experience with firewalling, ACLs, and encryption technologies.
• Network performance monitoring and optimisation within virtualised or containerised systems.

• SC Clearance

• Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

• Providing 3rd line technical support across the IT Infrastructure environment including cloud technologies and telephony networks. Ensuring that all incidents, problems, and requests are progressed and updated through to completion.
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and secure infrastructure solutions within a contact centre environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement network policies, procedures, and best practices.

• A minimum of 5 years experience at least 3 of which must be at 3rd Line Support Engineer/Infrastructure & Network level.
• At least 2 years IT experience within in a contact centre environment.
• Excellent Microsoft administration skills to include Azure AD, Intune, O365, Entra, Exchange, SharePoint.
• Excellent experience of infrastructure components like Networking, Server platforms, storage, application structure (2-tier, 3-tier), Identity, Security (Encryption, PKI), load balancing.
• Experience of administration and troubleshooting within Office 365, Azure, Active Directory, Intune, Entra.
• Experience working with a large application estate running IIS & SQL.
• Experience managing infrastructure estates using configuration management and application management & monitoring tools. Strong & demonstrable experience migrating workloads to cloud platforms.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in network engineering and administration.
• In-depth knowledge of network protocols and architectures.
• Hands-on experience with network hardware and software from major vendors.
• Experience with network security best practices and technologies.
• Familiarity with cloud networking concepts (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
• Relevant certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, or JNCIS are advantageous.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.