Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Networks) - Cabinet Office - G7

Location

We are offering location options for this role as below:

Existing CO staff can work in their original contractual work location.
Existing Civil Servants working in all other departments can work in London only.
External candidates can work in London only.

About the job

Job summary

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll be doing:

You will be instrumental in shaping the infrastructure, network and cloud capabilities that support vital services for the Government Digital Service (GDS), Crown Commercial Services (CCS) and the Government Property Agency (GPA), impacting civil servants and ministerial bodies across the nation.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Networks), you won't just be maintaining systems, you will be a key architect of our future network landscape. Working alongside Technical Architects and Principal Engineers, you will design, maintain and upgrade our network infrastructure, tackling challenges head on and ensuring seamless service delivery.

You will also be able to help others by mentoring or line management of more junior engineers.

Job description

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and implementing new network services to meet the evolving needs of the Cabinet Office.
• Be a crucial point of escalation for our Live Service, diving deep into root cause analysis and finding effective solutions.
• Guiding and mentoring junior engineers, creating a collaborative and growth oriented team environment.
• Managing and supporting our wireless LAN and WAN, including network and security devices.
• Maintaining and enhancing our network infrastructure services, including switching, routing and firewalls, while sharing your expertise.
• Working with cutting edge cloud technologies, contributing to the migration of existing systems and the implementation of innovative new solutions.
• Integrating and improving our existing processing systems to enhance performance.
• Maintaining the integrity, availability, performance and capacity of our networking infrastructure.
• Carrying out change control activities with precision and documenting our network infrastructure.
• Working within technical compliance frameworks, including PSN and Cloud computing.

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Person specification

• Proven experience in network design, installation, and fault finding.
• Experience of change management processes.
• Experience working in an enterprise IT environment.
• Exceptional customer relationship and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust at all levels.
• Technical expertise in supporting and administering networks.
• Experience with network monitoring and trend analysis.
• In depth understanding of LAN design/architecture at data center and branch office levels.
• Comprehensive knowledge of network technologies (IP, Ethernet, VLANs) and network security best practices.
• In depth understanding of communication protocols (TCP/IP) and routing protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF).
• Proven expert skills in Fortinet and Palo Alto Firewalls.
• Comprehensive understanding  of all the additional security features a Layer 7 Firewall provides
• Experience with Aerohive/Fortinet (or similar) WiFi management, including troubleshooting.
• Experience working with AWS Multi Account, TGW, VPCs and Route53.