RQ1472305

3 months contract with local authority

Role Purpose:

Management of the network infrastructure and resources (including any boughtin 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 producing 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 Councils business strategy agree service level agreements with business users and plan all aspects of the infrastructure necessary to ensure the provision of voice and data network services to meet such agreements. Responsible for network and telephony budget ensuring ongoing value for money.

Key Responsibilities:

• Network Management: Manage the network infrastructure and resources required to plan for develop deliver and support digital services and products to contribute to the achievement of the Council s corporate objectives.
  
• Service Preparation: Prepare for new or changed services manage the change process and maintain regulatory legal and professional standards. Manage the performance of networkrelated systems and services in terms of their contribution to business performance and their financial costs and sustainability. Manage boughtin services and develop continual service improvement plans to ensure the IT infrastructure adequately supports business needs.
  
• Network Design: Produce network designs and design policies strategies architecture and documentation covering security capacity and resilience for voice data text email and image to support business requirements and strategy. This may incorporate all aspects of the communications infrastructure internal and external mobile public and private Internet Intranet and call centres.
  
• Network Planning: Create and maintain overall network plans encompassing the communication of data voice text and image in support of the organisations business strategy. Participate in the creation of service level agreements and plan all aspects of infrastructure necessary to ensure the provision of network services to meet such agreements.
  
• User Experience: Ensure delivery of a highquality user experience including fitforpurpose systems and high standards of access availability usability usefulness and excellent standards of service.
  
• Compliance: Ensure network compliance with statutory national and international regulations and standards and provide authoritative advice and guidance.
  
• Innovation: Inspire creativity and flexibility in the management and application of ICT.
  
• Research and Development: Initiate and monitor research development and longterm planning for the provision and use of communications standards architectures products and services.
  
• Operational Awareness: Be aware of operational requirements especially in terms of service levels network availability response times security and repair times. Propose design enhancements capacity changes contingency and recovery arrangements as required to ensure that all network design targets are met and that the networks provided meet their service level targets within the Councils planned budget.
  

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 including 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.