Description
Role: Network Engineer - CNI
Location: Wokingham/Warwick, Poland
Type: Contract - B2B
Roles and Responsibilities:
- This role will suit a candidate with operational experience in IP/MPLS/Ethernet/SDH networks ideally in a Utilities environment.
- Ability to manage all of the resources required to run best in class network & telemetry operations.
- Ensure that outsourced services and partners effectively deliver to very high standards.
- Experience of managing outsourced services in an ITIL environment is required, effectively setting direction, control and standards, ideally in operational network environments.
- Strong knowledge of appropriate technology and systems that make up the network, telemetry and SCADA infrastructure would be an advantage.
- Use of network monitoring tools and fault finding in these networks.
- Understand and interpret both security and external regulations that impact upon the operation and effective running of operational networks.
- Experience of managing critical major incidents out of hours is also required for this role. This will be through participation in an out of hours rota.
Candidates must be able to achieve SC security vetting clearance.
Education Requirements:
- Educated to degree level in computing or relevant engineering discipline.
- Relevant industry certification (e.g., ITIL Practitioner, CCNA/DA, CCNP, Security) desirable.
Key Tasks:
- Act as a focal point for business service liaison (including projects and service transition).
- Manage all resources including third party service providers in the provision of operational management and control of CNI SCADA and CNI networks, ensuring they are fully resilient, safe, and secure.
- Work with IS, the business, and all third party stakeholders to ensure that any changes to the networks and associated hardware do not affect safe operational control.
- Work with Audit, Security, and any other outside Government organisations to ensure support operations are compliant with policies expected for critical CNI networks.
- Participation in incident management on CNI networks ensures resilience is restored as quickly as possible.
- Lead root cause analysis investigations ensuring learning is fed back to prevent reoccurrence.
- Responsibility for annual budget; track actuals against approved budget plan.
- Ensure disaster recovery plans are established and tested appropriately.