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Group IT Lead Network Specialist

Employer
Hays.
Location
United Kingdom, Cheltenham
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
29 Jun 2022

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Sector
Consultancy
Job Role
Business Development
Job Type
Permanent

Your new company

My client is a multi-national engineering group that has its headquarters in Cheltenham, UK. With a diverse work force giving them global strength, they serve over 100,000 customers in 130 countries across multiple industries and are looking for a Group Network Lead to join their ever growing and strengthening team.

Your new role

  • Network Administrator leader’s responsible for managing BAU, support and personal development .
  • Lead in designing, specifying and selecting information system solutions, considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance.
  • Lead the organisation in exploiting technology and use knowledge of IT solutions to drive change and support business process assisting with the integration and initial implementation of solutions including testing and assurance.
  • Identify and document any risks, issues or critical success factors that may require immediate or eventual remediation action.
  • Maintain and promote use of appropriate design standards and development methodologies within the team and wider business
  • Create effective and efficient control patterns, conduct risk evaluations and uphold policies and standards to enable the enterprise to conduct business at an appropriate and known risk level
  • Ensure capabilities are reviewed and compliant within defined risk levels while considering hardware/software currency, performance/availability, security and information/transaction integrity.
  • Taking ownership for and providing specialist design support relating to your technology portfolio (Cisco, Meraki )
  • Estimate cost and prepare business cases for IT solutions, considering infrastructure, development and support.
  • Work with Project Managers and Divisional Managers to develop high level project schedule resource plans for project implementation.
  • Quality assurance deliverables produced by team members to ensure consistency and accuracy.
  • Follow the major incident process.


What you'll need to succeed

  • Experience of working within a regulated industry â€" Security / Defence or similar
  • Knowledge of working within ITIL, PRINCE and, ideally, ISO270001 environments
  • Experience in assessing a broad range of information solutions and products.
  • Results driven with the ability to deliver solutions that promote organisational benefit.
  • Strategic business acumen and understanding of organisations strategy and ability to design information systems to deliver that strategy.
  • Demonstrable experience of taking ownership of a project and leading a team through the design and implementation of that project
  • Team player with experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions
  • Experience with Cisco switches, firewalls and Meraki Wi-Fi
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to lay audiences as well as experience of working with board level stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical skills demonstrating outside-the-box problem solving skills.
  • A rounded knowledge of networking infrastructure
  • Knowledge across some or multiple aspects network technology including LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, load-balancers, data centre, SD networks and automation, Cloud (Azure, express routes).


What you'll get in return

  • 27 days annual leave with up to 3 days additional volunteering
  • Private Medical Insurance (including digital GP)
  • Competitive pension scheme with employer contributions up to 10%
  • Life Assurance of four times base salary cover
  • A simple way to make regular contributions to a charity of your choice through payroll deductions
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee Share Ownership plan
  • Exclusive discounts at a range of retailers, including the leading supermarkets, technology, fashion, travel

What you need to do now
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