Job summary
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides health and social care services in acute and primary care settings, community hospitals, and care centres, through the 11,000 employed staff. The Trust spans over two counties of North Tyneside and Northumberland, and has a main WAN MPLS between the main hospitals in those regions.
Northumbria Digital Services team provide, IT services to all of the Trusts directorates, departments and subsidiaries and this role is to support the team to ensure the campus LAN, WAN and Wifi services are correctly designed, implemented, secured and supported to match the digital delivery needs and ambitions of the Trusts digital strategy.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for the management and performance of client network infrastructure LAN/WAN, WLAN and DC, providing pro-active support to ensure maximum availability of service in line with Trust service level agreements.
To be a point of escalation through the network operational team, from the digital services department and the Network technician, engineer and associate roles.
About us
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country's top performing NHS foundation trusts, looking after the wellbeing of around half a million people across Northumberland and North Tyneside - one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in England.
The way we relate to each other, the way that we do our work needs to be reflective of our Trust's values. We all, regardless of role or seniority have an obligation to make sure that we live by our values.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure high availability, security and usability of the network that is transparent to users.
To plan and organise a range of complex activities related to implementation of new systems including liaison with suppliers and end users, production of work plans and monitoring these to ensure completion on time and within assigned costs.
To develop and maintain efficient management of all networked systems under the control of Service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure high availability, security and usability of the network that is transparent to users.
To plan and organise a range of complex activities related to implementation of new systems including liaison with suppliers and end users, production of work plans and monitoring these to ensure completion on time and within assigned costs.
To develop and maintain efficient management of all networked systems under the control of Service.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Degree in a computer related discipline or equivalent level of knowledge or experience.
- Further staff and project management knowledge to post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience in a relevant computer related discipline.
- Additional specialist network related knowledge acquired through post graduate study or equivalent experience in a relevant computer services discipline.
- Specialist knowledge across range of project management procedures and techniques underpinned by theory
- Appropriate industry recognised qualifications e.g. CCNA or CCNP, or equivalent.
- Good understanding of Networking infrastructure and protocols
Desirable
- Management or supervisory Qualification
- ITIL
- CCNP Cyber Ops, Enterprise, Data Centre, or Security
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Significant experience, more than 5 years of managing a Cisco Network infrastructure across multiple sites
- Experience in design, development and implementation of IT Network Infrastructure and best practices across a large organization
- Significant experience of 3rd Line IT Support in a large organization
- Working experience and knowledge of VSS, Flex stack, Cisco Firepower, Data Centre Technologies, Cisco Unified Communication, Wireless Network Infrastructure
- Experience of troubleshooting and resolving issues at all levels
- Experience of documenting systems and networks.
- Experience with project management
Desirable
- Big-IP F5 LTM
- VMware ESXi
- Hyper Visor
- Solarwinds
- Logic Monitor
- Cisco Spaces
- Cisco ISE
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Degree in a computer related discipline or equivalent level of knowledge or experience.
- Further staff and project management knowledge to post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience in a relevant computer related discipline.
- Additional specialist network related knowledge acquired through post graduate study or equivalent experience in a relevant computer services discipline.
- Specialist knowledge across range of project management procedures and techniques underpinned by theory
- Appropriate industry recognised qualifications e.g. CCNA or CCNP, or equivalent.
- Good understanding of Networking infrastructure and protocols
Desirable
- Management or supervisory Qualification
- ITIL
- CCNP Cyber Ops, Enterprise, Data Centre, or Security
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Significant experience, more than 5 years of managing a Cisco Network infrastructure across multiple sites
- Experience in design, development and implementation of IT Network Infrastructure and best practices across a large organization
- Significant experience of 3rd Line IT Support in a large organization
- Working experience and knowledge of VSS, Flex stack, Cisco Firepower, Data Centre Technologies, Cisco Unified Communication, Wireless Network Infrastructure
- Experience of troubleshooting and resolving issues at all levels
- Experience of documenting systems and networks.
- Experience with project management
Desirable
- Big-IP F5 LTM
- VMware ESXi
- Hyper Visor
- Solarwinds
- Logic Monitor
- Cisco Spaces
- Cisco ISE
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
