SC Cleared Senior Network Engineer - Rate Negotiable - Inside IR35

Job Description

Active SC Clearance RequiredThe Role Our public sector client have a vacancy for a Senior Network Engineer to help develop and evolve theirservice to meet the fast-changing needs of theirpartners.The successful candidate will need to combine strong technical skills with a consultative approach and work within a team of engineers ensuring services are integrated, delivered and operated to a high standard.The role will involve working with enterprise networks and developing an understanding of government security guidance to deliver secure network infrastructure services.For this role you will require a high level of Networking experience and skills to investigate and resolve complicated networking issues. You will be expected to work closely with Network architects to produce architectural designs. In addition, the abilityto provide technical assistance to team members and help colleagues translate and deliver these designs into production is essential.This role requires a strong user focus and an eye for detailunderstanding the technology that is required to facilitate the network & infrastructure, and be able to work with minimal supervision or as part of a larger team. Agile project methodologiesare the main method used within this area.Responsibilities

• Provide support to a team of Network engineers in the troubleshooting and resolution of network infrastructure incidents across the service, involving both physical and virtual network switching, routing and firewall equipment.
• Improve and maintain monitoring and alerting of the ROSA network equipment across all environments within the RSO and our partner sites worldwide.
• Work with the technical architects, other technical teams and external vendors to produce solutions that are intended to add to or improve functionality to the service.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams to deliver these solutions.
• Ensure that all new components and installations meet or exceed the RSO internal and regulatory requirements..
• Own responsibility for network changes and implement according to agreed business processes.
• Understand network vulnerability and tooling to maintain and update network infrastructure.
• Monitor trends to be able to proactively respond to issues to support the business needs.
• Further develop existing documentation processes, and policies to ensure necessary governance and reporting is in place.
• Follow the Technology Development Life Cycle in the development of all products, proactively plan and manage upgrades for both virtual and physical networking equipment as appropriate.

Experience Essential

• Experience in a lead/senior network engineering role.
• Demonstratable experience with varied routing, firewall, switching and load balancing vendors to expert level.
• Expert level understanding of Networking Concepts, such as Transmission Control Protocol, Internet Protocol, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, IP Addressing, Variable Length Subnet Masks, Remote Access, cabling systems, wiring topologies, and Networksecurity.
• Expert understanding of IKE, IPSEC and standard routing protocols (OSPf/BGP).
• Proven experience of producing and implementing LAN, WAN designs as well as both high- and low-level design documentation.
• Expert understanding of network capacity planning, network security principles, and general network management best practices.
• Demonstratable technical leadership ability, providing technical guidance on above concepts as required to the team.
• High attention to detail

Desirable

• Experience of working with Agile methodologies.
• Experience of cloud-based infrastructure (AWS/Azure).

Ways of Working

• Support is provided fromoffices in East Kilbride, however working remotely from home is the current way of working due to the ongoing pandemic and restrictions.
• There may be a requirement for occasional travel tooffices in London, notwithstanding the current Government mandated restrictions.