Specialist Technical Support Level 4 - Network Engineer

We’re on a journey to shape the future of policing in our three counties and we want you to be part of it. We value difference and believe in creating an inclusive working environment where our employees feel safe to make suggestions and voice their opinions.

The main purpose of the Specialist Technical Support Level 4 - Network Engineerrole is to work as a member of the Specialist Technical Support Team and providing some local supervision of work colleagues as required, contributing to an efficient and effective Customer Service, ensuring a quality end to end ICT Service for West Mercia Police.

To provide a high level of technical support across West Mercia Police, both to internal customers and to external customers ensuring the department is offering the best level of service in terms of ICT services, specialist applications and equipment.

The ideal candidate would have:

Essential Skills:

• Routing and Switching
• Enterprise Firewalls
• VPN
• Load Balancing
• Web Proxies
• Remote Access Solutions
• Security Principles

Desirable:

• Citrix NetScaler/ADC
• Zscaler
• Cloud e.g. MS Azure
• VMWare/Hyper-V
• SDWAN

• The Specialist Technical Support Level 4 - Network Engineer role is a hybrid role
• Full time position
• Permanent
• The salary includes a 5% market supplement (reviewed April annually)

The closing date for this post is 12 noon on Thursday 4th April 2024

Why work for us?

• 28 days Annual leave (increasing to 33 after 5 years service) + bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme
• Health and wellbeing, occupational health services, staff network and PAM assist.
• Police Mutual, affordable private healthcare and other savings.
• Gym membership discounts.
• Register for a Blue light card - over 15,000 discounts from large national retailers.

To read more about the added benefits and rewards of working for West Mercia Police, please go to our website.

• We embrace diversity and welcome applications from everyone.
• We are also happy to talk flexible working where it is suitable for the role.

If you require any support to complete your application or you have any questions please contact the recruitment team on 0 1 9 0 5 7 1 8 4 4 4 (press option 1 then 5)

Internal applicants who are in need of redeployment will be offered positions ahead of other candidates, subject to them passing a selection process.