Overview
As part of the Strategy and Architectural team within Digital Services, you will design, build, and maintain network infrastructure (virtual and physical) to meet business needs and digital strategy. You will act as the network SME, guiding technical solutions, risk mitigation, and supplier coordination in a large, complex environment. You’ll balance service quality with cost, driving operational delivery and changes with impact across multiple stakeholders. This role offers on-call responsibilities and regular travel, with hybrid work options.
Pay / Benefits
- on-call allowance
- hybrid working
- office presence as required
- travel allowance (implied)
- salary up to 60k basic plus on call
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain network infrastructure (virtual/physical)
- Provide SME guidance, technical support, and assurance on network tasks
- Capture business requirements, analyze data, and propose options
- Ensure alignment with business needs and digital strategy
- Identify risks and propose mitigations to the delivery team
- Perform impact analysis and QA on modifications
- Manage relationships with MSPs and suppliers
- Contribute to on-call rota and travel as required
- Undertake duties commensurate with role and grading
Key requirements
- Cisco, Avaya telephony, Azure, AWS, zScaler, SolarWinds and Sentinel knowledge
- Network Monitoring & Management expertise
- Supplier management experience
- SD-WAN, VLAN, Azure VNet/VWan knowledge
- Static and Dynamic routing knowledge
- ISO 20000/ITSM awareness
- Authoring Technical Design documents and service artefacts
- Experience building and maintaining physical and virtual infrastructure in large organisations
- Strong ICT and operational service delivery focus
- commercially astute
- ownership and accountability
- stakeholder management
- SD-WAN
- VLAN
- Azure VNet/VWan
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