Senior Connectivity Engineer

Salary: £90,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong networking fundamentals, including routing, NAT, firewalls, DNS, VPNs, and IPv4/IPv6
• Experience operating production systems at scale and debugging multi-layer failures
• Proficiency in Go and/or Python
• Experience with modern observability tooling
• Comfortable working close to the Linux networking stack, including interfaces, routing tables, MTU/PMTUD, conntrack, and nftables/iptables
• Experience in robotics, telematics, connected vehicles, industrial IoT, or start-up/scale-up environments is desirable
• Experience operating fleets of devices across multiple geographies and carriers is desirable
• Bonus points for containers/IoT OS, ACL-as-code patterns, and carrier/router API integrations

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve our fleet connectivity stack across mesh VPN, routers, Wi‑Fi, and cellular connectivity with a tooling‑first, automation‑led approach
• Build internal tooling and self‑serve workflows for router configuration and validation, access management, and fleet health checks
• Replace manual processes with repeatable, testable systems
• Operate the mesh VPN layer with access‑as‑code, policy patterns, posture and health automation, and resilience/disaster recovery planning
• Deliver fleet‑wide connectivity observability through monitoring, alerting, reporting, and actionable signals
• Improve cellular and SIM lifecycle management through provisioning automation, usage and cost visibility, and carrier‑level reporting
• Enable deployments with pre‑deployment network validation and simple site survey workflows
• Partner with deployment, service, and customer‑facing teams to turn field issues into durable tooling and documentation

Technologies:

• API
• DevOps
• Embedded
• IoT
• Linux
• NAT
• Network
• Python
• Robotics
• VPN
• Hardware
• Support

More:

We are transforming the warehousing and logistics industry through data intelligence, and we are hiring a Senior Connectivity Engineer to take day‑to‑day ownership of the connectivity layer that keeps our global robot fleet online. Our offices are based in Wallingford, Oxford, and the role is offered on a flexible hybrid basis, with onsite attendance approximately once every four weeks. We value candidates from networking, platform, SRE, DevOps, embedded Linux, and telematics backgrounds, and we are open to a range of experiences as long as you bring strong networking fundamentals and a tooling‑first mindset. We work by four Operating Principles: Performance, Impact, Commitment, and One team.

• private healthcare via Bupa with a 24/7 medical helpline
• life insurance
• income protection
• pension contributions
• an Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• full meals onsite in Wallingford
• fun team events with office snacks