Lead Network Engineer - HM Land Registry

HM Land Registry ("HMLR") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Lead Network Engineer to shape the technical direction of HM Land Registry's established network function and infrastructure across all UK offices by actively engaging in series of network re-designs and upgrades including new office topology, firewalls and routing designs. Starting salary of £54,388 to £61,850 dependent upon interview assessment plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 28% pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from Plymouth.

The IT Operations Practice contains an established network function who are responsible for the design, delivery, and maintenance of HM Land Registry network infrastructure. This encompasses data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and Azure. These services underpin all of HMLRs IT services.

The team are actively engaged in a series of exciting network re-designs and upgrades including new local office topology and design, new switching, firewalls and routing designs.

This role is to provide technical leadership for the Networks team, take forward technical consolidation/improvement activities and engage with other Lead Infrastructure Engineers, Technical Leads, Delivery Leads, New Service Managers and Architects to deliver solutions to agreed designs plus contributing to strategic planning.

Responsibilities include:

• Be the subject matter expert on networks within HM Land Registry, taking accountability for design and management of network infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership to the practice, working as a Lead Infrastructure Engineering team to provide guidance and technical decision making within BAU and change portfolio deliverables
• Support HM Land registry Network Infrastructure, encompassing data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and Azure.
• Use networking skills to continually design and develop the network topology to meet business needs
• Maintain effective relationships with other practices in order to meet operational requirements and service levels agreements.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of the practise and the IT Operations community, supporting community members to build and maintain cohesion
• Occasional hands-on with reconfiguration, troubleshooting, rolling out new equipment and quality assurance.

Essential skills:

• CCNP qualification or equivalent experience
• Routing configurations using standard enterprise routing protocols including OSP and BGP.
• Firewall configuration including policy, routing and design.
• Switching protocols (HSRP/ vlan / port-channels)
• Physical network design.
• Design and operation of cloud network solutions (Any cloud)
• Experience of planning and leading on the delivery of large-scale network infrastructure change.
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to interact and build working relationships with stakeholders.

Location

Expectation is to be working from the Plymouth office 60% of your time across the month (typically 3 days/week).

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of circa £62,000 HM Land Registry contributes £9,881 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme and the following benefits:
• Annual leave of 28.5 days' paid holiday during each holiday year plus 8 days public holidays
• Personalised training and development plans including expensed accreditations with training days set aside
• Flexi-time scheme (You decide what working hours work best for you)
• Attractive pension options inc. 28% Civil Service Pension
• Social and sports club
• Access to our employee assistance programme for counselling and support on a wide range of issues
• Interest-free loan for season tickets
• Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).
• HMLR have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development and flexible ways of working.

Further information

This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.

This posy may include participation in an on-call rota, subject to additional pay.

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