Band 7 Senior Network Operations Engineer

Job summary

This role represents a great opportunity for a skilled individual to join a dedicated team of network engineers in supporting and maintaining the trusts network infrastructure. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country we are looking for a flexible, well organised and highly motivated individual who can work autonomously or a team and has line management responsibility for a small team to deliver high quality infrastructure services aligned with the trust's digital strategy. The trust has recently completed refreshing it's core network (Nov 2025) and has just commenced a Wireless infrastructure refresh which will be ongoing throughout 2026.

Based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham but support all 4 hospital sites and remote support for community/satellite sites"]

Main duties of the job

The Network Team is responsible for maintaining a resilent, secure and high-performance network infrastructure. Effective and efficient incident, problem and change management is essential and liaising with other trust teams, suppliers and external agencies as required.

Advanced experience as a network engineer gained while working in a complex enterprise enviroment is essential for this role.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* IT or Technology degree or equivalent
* Additional specialist knowledge and or IT industry qualification (e.g., Cisco or IT specialist certification) acquired whilst employed in an IT role at a large organisation.

Desirable

* ITIL Foundation or Practitioner
* Recognised Networking qualification such as Cisco CCNA.
* Cyber Security related qualification/cert or 5 years' experience working on network security platform

Experience

Essential

* Advanced experience as a network engineer (LAN/WAN &Wi-Fi) gained while working in a complex enterprise environment.
* Deep understanding of key protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS)
* Network Security -- Enterprise Firewalls, VPNs, and NAC solutions.
* Wireless Networking -- WLAN design, RF surveys, troubleshooting and performance tuning
* An understanding of Cybersecurity readiness, response, and recovery, including:
o ISO/IEC 27001
o Cyber Essentials

Desirable

* Experience in supporting Cisco access layer
* Experience in supporting Extreme access layer and Extreme Wi Fi
* Experience in Checkpoint Firewall's
* Experience in administering of Forescout NAC
* Experience of working with a large healthcare or public sector organisation.
* Understanding of DSPT/CAF requirements
* Working knowledge of other cloud providers e.g., AWS, Google.
* Experience of cloud networking and security, particularly Azure ExpressRoute, virtual WAN and Azure Firewall.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm

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