Network Manager

Lead Network Enginner

London Local Authority

£66,000 pa

Permanent

Hybrid

Our client, a London based Local Authority, are looking to recruit an individual to lead the Network Team, delivering solutions and services for the organisation and monitoring our network to ensure availability and quality. You will be a subject matter expert and design authority for the client's approach to networking, including Azure-based cloud network services, tooling, and platforms.

Duties:

• As an experienced technical leader, you’ll build a professional and capable network capability to manage projects, provide general support and administration workload, and monitor the networks in the authority's agreed SLAs in a way that embraces cyber security.
• Play a pivotal role in defining, communicating and delivering our IT strategy and roadmap, ensuring that the organisation embraces security-by-design and best practices.
• Focus on clear, achievable principles and direction for services with the correct blend of cloud and on-premises technologies.
• You’ll build alignment and shared understanding across our projects, guiding teams to build the right thing, build it right and control the costs, ensuring that our data remains secure.
• Collaborate with technical stakeholders to design and build best-practice network architectures, governance, and tooling.
• Ensure our systems conform to recognised industry standards, including the National Cyber Security Centre 14 Cloud principals, ISO27001, PCI-DSS, and PSN.
• You will ensure the team proactively investigates and responds to all operational and security incidents, providing thorough post-event analysis and remediation.
• Develop a detailed disaster recovery plan for our network, contributing to our incident response plans and ensuring they are consistent with the corporate business continuity plan

You must have a deep understanding of network fundamentals: Candidates should possess a comprehensive understanding of networking concepts, protocols, and technologies, coupled with hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing complex network environments.

• Extensive experience designing, implementing and managing solutions incorporating Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, LAN and WiFi, Cisco ACI, Palo Alto Firewall, Microsoft Azure, Zscaler and on-premise data centre solutions is essential for this role. Candidates should demonstrate proficiency in configuring, troubleshooting, and optimising these technologies.
• Experience designing and maintaining voice and communications technologies, including SIP Trunking and Session Border Controllers (SBC), Microsoft Teams and Netcall Liberty Converse.
• Experience and understanding of cloud architecture and implementation features including security services primarily with Microsoft Azure.
• Solid understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorisation and security.

Due to the nature of this specialist role, the post holder should have relevant professional certifications to demonstrate core competency. Examples of relevant certifications include:

• Cisco CCNP Enterprise
• Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)

Please apply online today if you have the relevant skills and experience for the role.