Senior Network and Security Engineer

Job Description

Excited to grow your careerOur mission is to help people save and invest with confidence. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at HL.About the roleThe role is responsible for being the Subject Matter Expert on network equipment, cabling, configuration, and associated tools, ensuring that they are maintained to an enterprise standard and fit for purpose to meet business demands.We are on a journey towards full hybrid cloud, between on-premise physical servers, VMWare, AWS, and Azure. This role will form a senior position in the Network team providing support and operations across this hybrid cloud environment.We are looking for a strong senior network and security engineer, capable of taking the lead, whilst driving the network strategy forwards to align with our business transformation. You will have an opportunity to work with tier 1 products and be supportedwith resource capacity to deliver against demand.What youll be doing

• Working as part of a team of high performing technology specialists, accountable for technical leadership across the Network Team
• Supporting the Enterprise technologies that provide Mission Critical services to our internal business and customer facing systems including participation in the on-call rota
• Technical lead for WAN, LAN, VPN, Proxy, Load Balancers, Firewalls, etc, providing them as a service to other IT teams
• Providing technical leadership, direction, and strategy, aligned with business objectives across all technologies in scope for this team
• Creating, driving, managing and operating processes to ensure performance, capacity and availability are managed effectively to exceed business objectives
• Integrating our infrastructure management processes with DevSecOps technologies to bring robust automation to our infrastructure management
• As a Senior Engineer, within your SME technology remit, you will be responsible for:
• Being the technical escalation point for Incident/ Major Incident and Problem Management
• The ongoing management and optimisation of monitoring and alerting services
• Technical approval for Change Management procedures to support impact analysis and provide governance on changes requested by the team
• Creating and owning components of the technology roadmap and infrastructure architecture strategy
• Creating and managing Technical IT documentation, including standards, policies and processes

About you

• Providing technical leadership, direction and strategy, aligned with business objectives across all technologies in scope for this team
• Expert level experience of Enterprise networks, including good knowledge of WAN, LAN, VPN, Proxy, Load Balancers, Firewalls
• Experience of creating, operating and maintaining mission critical platforms
• Experience of other enterprise infrastructure technologies beneficial, including physical servers, hyperconverged infrastructure, storage, databases
• An analytical approach with the ability to pre-empt potential problems and identify inefficiencies
• Strong mentoring skills, workload management, training needs analysis, personal development of self and others
• Identifying and driving process improvement within the team
• Managing workloads, identifying and allowing for technical, regulatory and business priorities
• Strong communication skills both within the team and to external stakeholders

Interview process

• 2 Stage Interview Process

Working Schedule

• 37.5 hours a week, rotational on call hours - to be discussed further upon application

Why usHere at HL, were the UKs number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years weve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. Were steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.Whats on offer

• Discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review
• 25* days holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HLs future
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Help@hand and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
• An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
• Join HLs sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

* up to 30 days depending on role level & increasing with length of serviceWe know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they dont tick every box. If youre excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience were looking for, please go ahead and apply. Wed love to hear from you!Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.