Job Description

Duties of the role will be ;

Management of the network infrastructure and resources (including any bought-in services) required to plan for, develop, deliver and support Digital services and products to contribute to the achievement of the Council's corporate objectives. ? Responsible for network specification and design.

Produce network design policies, philosophies and criteria covering connectivity, capacity, interfacing, security, resilience, recovery, access and remote access.

Deliver agile, evergreen services.

Create and maintain overall network plans to support the Council's business strategy, agree service level agreements with business users and plan all aspects of the infrastructure necessary to ensure provision of voice and data network services to meet such agreements.

Support the council's evaluation and migration from PSTN to VoIP networking, ensuring all assets are mapped and transitioned in line with industry standards.

Experience and Qualifications - Essential

• Extensive Enterprise Network Experience (+5 Years), with highly developed specialist technical knowledge within the data and voice network. Broad knowledge of the IT Technology stacks, with experience of network virtualization.

• Ideally educated to bachelor degree level and holds a relevant professional qualification, or Skills and Experience.

• Expert Experience - Expert Juniper/Cisco; CCNA level, Netscalers, LAN, WAN and routers protocols, Firewalls, to include Palo Alto, ASA firewalls, checkpoint firewalls, load balancing technology such as F5, Cisco switching and wireless networks Aruba.
  
• Experience of Hybrid Cloud Environments and Cloud Connectivity WAN options; and WAN implementations and migrations to MPLS.
  
• Expert knowledge of Security Layer/Network Monitoring - Strong knowledge of security particularly within the network space (IPsec, VPN, NGFW, IPS/IDS, DDoS, NAC etc), and Network Load Balancing - including website traffic, remote access, and access to critical services.

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.