Network Engineer (Juniper/Fortinet)

Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Network Engineer for our client a government organisation in Somerset, England.

The successful post holder will be responsible for providing expert guidance and product ownership for a technology capability. Conducting research and analysis, supporting projects, and ensuring the highest standards of quality, security, and compliance within their domain of expertise or technology.

This role is a temporary contract initially for 6 months with the possibility to extend. This role is 4 days working at home and 1 day in the office a week.

Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Acting in a leadership capacity for a small team, backfilling the permanent member of staff while they and aligned resources are involved in the deployment of new network and firewall infrastructure across the core, county hall, site.
• Provide expert knowledge, product ownership and guidance in the specific domain of technology.
• Conduct thorough research and analysis to support technological advancements.
• Lead specialist projects by offering technical expertise and insights.
• Escalation point for technical support to ensure smooth operation of ICT systems.
• Develop and implement policies and procedures to enhance ICT operations.
• Ensure quality assurance by maintaining high standards of technology use.
• Perform risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate vendors to ensure the best technological solutions are chosen.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of all technical processes and decisions.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Manage tasks of team members across the Digital Services Department using matrix management.
• Innovation and Transformation – leading initiatives to Optimise deployment and adoption of technology domain across the organisation to drive improved efficiency
• Be around team management; ad-hoc escalations, daily workload prioritisation and delivery management, supplier and stakeholder engagement and BAU contract renewals across support and maintenance contracts and associated services.
• Leading the networking, firewall and telephony team day to day, doing prioritisation of BAU workload, line management, ad-hoc escalations etc.
• Create, monitor, and review frameworks of performance measures and quality standards to be applied in the delivery of services.
• Function as an ambassador for the organisation promoting, both internally and externally, the organisation’s vision, strategic aims, and values.
• Ensure flexibility in reacting to the needs of the organisation, its’ customers and partners supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Support Corporate and Directorate and service specific transformational change programmes with the aim of maximising efficiency, modernising services, and achieving better outcomes and opportunities for service users and customers.
• Ensure that Digital services place a high value on customer responsiveness by demonstrating a commitment to meeting and involving the broadest range of direct and indirect service users, citizens, customers, communities, and businesses.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, the organisation’s standards of conduct, organisational policy, and professional codes of conduct to uphold standards of best practise.

Personal Requirements:

• Experience of ICT Transformation and Maintenance projects, as a member of a design authority or as the Technology owner/workstream Lead.
• Proficiency in developing policies and procedures.
• Data engineering, data flow and data science awareness.
• Understanding of Information Governance policy, specialising in data protection & data privacy.
• Understanding of cyber security principles.

Working Hours: 37hrs / Monday – Friday / 1 day Office

Pay: £350 per day

Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.