Senior Network Engineer

A leading education establishment in Edinburgh is looking to hire an experienced Senior Network Engineer. This is a fantastic opportunity that offers high-level leadership combined with a broad technical scope.  This is your chance to join an organisation that’s committed to making a meaningful impact on education. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that values innovation, professional growth, and diverse perspectives. They offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and development, including ongoing training, flexible working arrangements, and the opportunity to shape technological advancements in a vital sector. What you’ll be doing as Senior Network Engineer: Acting as a key technical lead within the IT function you will be responsible for ensuring the stability and continuous improvement of the organisation’s core technology platforms; this includes network, server, telephony, wireless, data centre infrastructure, virtualisation, cloud services, and unified collaboration technologies. You will be responsible for a designing, planning, and then implementing and maintain complex enterprise systems that support a user base of 3000+ users.  Operating as a senior member of the IT Services team you will combine hands-on engineering, strategic planning, and technical leadership to ensure the delivery of resilient services on high availability platforms with strong cyber security.The responsibilities of the role are split into five main areas;

• Networking, Telephony and Unified Collaboration
• Server Management & Administration
• Maintenance and Security
• Data Centre Management (Environmental, Storage, Compute, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Virtualisation and Cloud)
• 3rd Line Support and Team Management

There is a wide range of technologies used across the organisation; these include:

• Edge / Core / Access Infrastructure (Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, and managed switches)
• Server / Infrastructure Services (Windows Server, DHCP, Active Directory Group Policy, Mobile Device Management)
• Wireless / BYOD (Cisco Wireless, Cisco CMX, Cisco Identity Services)
• VOIP Telephone solutions (Cisco UCM, Jabber)
• Virtualisation (VMware, vCenter, ESXi)
• Cloud services (AWS, Azure)
• Datacentre (Nexus 9300 DC Switches, Cisco Hyperflex)

Planning and organisational skills are critical requirements for this role as you will work very closely with the Head of IT and other members of the team to plan areas such as the annual IT budget, IT Services roadmap, strategy, project portfolio and programme of works. You will perform highly complex technical tasks often in high pressure situations with sole accountability and responsibility;  as the change authority you will  fully accountable for all major outages and unplanned downtime and will react to ensure swift and efficient resolution (escalating major issues to vendors as necessary).We’re looking for a Senior Network Engineer with:

• Ideally CCNA / CCNP accreditation
• Strong background in IT project delivery, digital transformation, or systems implementation
• Extensive experience working as Senior Network Engineer or Architect
• Extensive background working with multiple Cisco technologies within an enterprise scale environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think critically under pressure.
• Clear and effective communicator, both written and verbal.
• Solid grasp of IT security, compliance, and governance principles.

They are proud to promote an inclusive culture and encourages applications from women and underrepresented groups. If you’re passionate about leveraging technology to enhance learning and want to be part of an inspiring team, we want to hear from you.  To apply for this role, please click apply online and upload an updated copy of your CV. Note: The job title of ‘Senior’ relates simply to the level of experience and has no relevance to age. You are encouraged to apply for any opportunities that you feel to be suitable, irrespective of age or level of experience.Candidate Source Ltd is an advertising agency.  Once you have submitted your application it will be passed to the third party Recruiter who is responsible for processing your application. This will include holding and sharing your personal data, our legal basis for this is legitimate interest subject to your declared interest in a job. Our privacy policy can be found on our website and we can be contacted to confirm who your application has been forwarded to.