Network Engineer (Telephony) | 12 Month Contract | (Outside IR35) | Hybrid, Edinburgh| Starting ASAP

Day Rate: £DOE

About the Role:

You will be a Network Engineer with extensive practical day to day and some strategic Cisco switching and routing experience with a CCNP certificate at minimum. Though experience in Palo Alto, F5, Collaboration, VPN, Windows and, Linux is advantageous. You need to be technically skilled and have the drive and the ability to be proactive to deliver results as part of the overall change programme.
Promoting best practice in network management you will ensure that the clients policy and procedures maintain quality assurance levels of a high standard.

Main Duties:

• The key focus for this contract at the start is to focus on the following projects:
• Manage the migration of internet and azure hosted traffic to the new sdwan solution, as well as rollout of new VPN solution, upgrade of estates wide LAN hardware/software (Triage of site failures over 50+ sites), Wi-Fi system upgrade (New controllers, AP's, expansion of coverage etc). More projects are in the works so there is scope for more works around F5, Data centre exit, ISE Upgrade/replacement, management systems.

Programme Delivery

• Consult in the delivery of a design and strategy around managing a large multi-site network including SDWAN, WiFi and LAN active projects leading to you implementing said designs.
• Provide effective, timely and accurate advice and sound professional judgement to colleagues on networking/infrastructure design ensuring design principles are adhered to,
• Represent Change and Digital Innovation (Networks team) at meetings both internal and external in relation to the change programme.
• Consult on the overall network roadmap based on the 3 year and 5-year business plan.
• Provide technical design consultation to DDIA and network security.

Policy and governance

• Ensure design compliance within PSN networks and the appropriate policies and procedures
• Advise best practice to Coordinate, maintain and develop existing systems to meet the needs of the business and supported Justice Partners as part of the change programme

Communication

• Consult with operational colleagues to identify improvements to service provision to meet the ongoing and future needs of the business
• Attend meetings and network events as required and identify and share best practice methods
• Attend CAB (Change Authority Board) meetings when required to further explain submitted/ proposed Network changes in line with the change programme.
• Ensure all collateral required by Project Managers is provided within agreed timescales.

Service Development

• Consult with others within the clients and outside agencies to continuously improve service provision and make suggestions for improvements to systems and processes based on the network roadmap.
• Keep current with market trends and new products in area of your specialism.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Knowledge of troubleshooting physical network site infrastructure
• Experience of building, managing and maintaining high availability networks with Cisco devices
• Working knowledge or experience in some or all of the following subjects: Cisco Networking, Unified Communications, WLC, F5 VPN, F5 Silverline/XC, IPsec tunnel and Palo Alto Firewalls.
• Experience of designing load balancing services
• Ability to work in partnership with IT colleagues and operational colleagues
• Good working knowledge of how analogue telephone services are presented to customer premises.
• The ability to identify the equipment installed on customer premises that relates to analogue line delivery and presentation, often in busy and congested comms rooms and cabinets.
• Understanding of underlying services that may utilise analogue lines, such as alarm or lift lines.
• The ability to trace cabling from supplier core presentation to equipment socket, with the assistance of local resources where appropriate.
• Good working knowledge of best practice approaches to testing analogue line delivery for live service.
• Maintaining accurate records in relation to the identification work and testing of analogue services across the national estate, reporting back to key project personnel when required.

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