Network Engineer

Grade UE08 £48,350 - £59,421 per annum plus excellent benefits

ISG/Communications Infrastructure Services

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Open-ended: permanent

Vacancies available: 3

We are looking for three experienced and talented Snr Network engineers to join a team of experienced IT professionals in delivering network and telephony services across the university. The Snr Network Engineers sit within our Communications Infrastructure Services section, who are responsible for the management, operation and development of the network and telephony services to over 50,000 university users.

The postholders will be responsible for managing the network across the University, ensuring performance, capacity and security is maintained to support our digital services, and provide a reliable and secure computing environment.

The roles offer a salary of £48,350 - £59,421pa, depending on experience, and report to the University’s Network Manager. While the roles benefit from the option for some hybrid and home-working, they involve the occasional need to travel across the whole University estate to meet service and project needs.

The team would prefer full-time (35hrs pw) working patterns, however are committed to offering flexibility so would consider flexible working options where possible.

The Snr. Network Engineers responsibilities include:

• Planning, scheduling and executing upgrades to maintain stability and security.
• Monitoring capacity and performance to ensure optimum delivery of digital services.
• Provision of technical expertise to a wide audience ensuring performance, security and functionality are not undermined by changes or upgrades.
• Resolution of faults and performing root cause analysis to avoid repetition.
• Maintaining awareness of technology and best practice developments as well as developing supplier relationships.

The Snr. Network Engineer (Security) responsibilities has the additional focus of :

• Management of firewalls and security controls.
• Ensuring consistency of security configuration.
• Ensuring appropriate logging of network events and subsequent log analysis.

Candidates who meet the below criteria are encouraged to apply:

Essential:

• Substantial relevant networking experience, demonstrating involvement in progressively more demanding technical roles.
• Significant technical knowledge of and expertise in Communications Infrastructure including data and voice communications, voice over IP, wireless technologies, and network security.
• Excellent diagnostic, fault-finding and problem-solving skills in relevant highly technical areas.
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Full, valid driving license and willingness to drive as part of the job.

Desirable:

• Qualification in networking or security.
• Experience of HPE/Aruba and Fortinet products.
• Experience of Data Centre Networking technologies.
• Exposure to networking automation technologies.

This role offers excellent benefits, including:

• Contributing to and helping underpin the work of colleagues within a dynamic, research-led organisation that has significant real-world impact.
• Generous annual leave allowance of 40 days per year (including annual closure days).
• Highly competitive defined-benefit pension scheme with a substantial employer contribution.
• A range of flexible working options to help you prioritise work/life balance.
• A day of paid leave annually for your chosen volunteering activity.
• Access to excellent training and a Staff Scholarship fund to support your professional development.
• Varied family-friendly initiatives, support for staff wellbeing and much more.
• Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

The University has a strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and particularly welcomes applications from candidates who may be under-represented in our workforce and in this profession more broadly. If you have the right skills for the job, we want to hear from you, regardless of your age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief or race.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 15th July at 11:59pm GMT.
Interviews are likely to be held week commencing 22nd July and will be held virtually, with successful candidates invited for subsequent in-person interview at a date to be confirmed.

ABOUT US

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Infrastructure Division provides the core platforms and technologies on which the University's research, learning, teaching and digital administration depend. This includes management of the University's data and telephone networks and support of managed desktop computing and open-access computer suites. Two resilient data-centres host large-scale compute and data services for research, and server and storage infrastructure for providing enterprise services. The division also provides infrastructure technologies such as authentication and authorisation used by University I.T. services.